Magazines & Brochures

Simon calls upon 36 years of experience working in the magazine and newspaper publishing sector. He currently works on the monthly MK Pulse and NN Pulse, Business Times and Business MK for Pulse Group Media. He also produces a quarterly magazine for East Hunsbury Parish Council, East Hunsbury Life. Simon has worked with the Northamptonshire-based Focus Magazine Group on the production of their publications since 2010. Currently, he is responsible for the pre-press production of the Focus Towcester and Focus Brackley magazines and the Village Help Directories, as well as contributing to the Focus Buckingham magazine. He has also worked on the editorial layout for Group Leisure & Travel, School Travel Organiser, Meat Management and Food Management Today magazines, and the annuals, Coaching Venues & Excursions and Meat Contacts regularly over the last 14 years. He has been lucky enough to work on the Soroptimist Great Britain & Ireland annual conference programme for the last 3 years. Simon has been happy to donate his time for the last 16 years to Advantage Africa to design and lay out their newsletter, Milestones. In addition, Simon has made ‘guest appearances’ over the years on the local publications Vale Life and Essentially Local. In the midst of time he has worked on Style, Chill Out, Seasons, African Dream, The Legal Journal and at the start of his career on numerous local and regional newspapers, including (at the time) Britain’s best and largest free newspaper, the Milton Keynes Citizen. He started his career in publishing in 1988, working on the then broadsheet local newspaper The Bucks Herald and its free sister newspaper The Bucks Advertiser, initially working in the advertising department and as a leisure and entertainment reporter (in his spare time) and finally, a mac operator in their production team.

I would be happy to talk to magazine publishers to see if we could work together to lift the look of your publications to another level, just maintain the high standards you have already set, or take on the pre-press design and production for you. I am incredibly flexible in my approach, able to work to strict style guidelines or designing and setting my own styles and coming up with eye-catching new design and layout ideas. In the first instance, please call, text or WhatsApp on 07305 380711 or email and let’s see how we could work together.

What do I love working on? I won’t lie, I really enjoy theatre and music pages, anything to do with current affairs and politics and most of all, a celebrity interview. Over the years this has included politicians, and business leaders in the food and drink sector and travel sector. More recently, it has included Johannes Radebe, Craig Revel Horwood, Patrick Duffy, Bradley Walsh and Hayley Mills, for the Pulse magazines. At the same time, my involvement in local newspapers and magazines has developed my interest in highlighting local groups and characters.

We design and produce magazines, brochures, newsletters and annual reports for clients from concept to print. These have ranged from a wedding package brochure for Whittlebury Park; a product brochure for Custom Glaze; a beauty and spa brochure for Grafton Spa & Wellness, a product brochure for Snug Roofs and an annual report for the international charity, Carers Worldwide.

Please call, text or WhatsApp on 07305 380711 or email and give us an outline of the requirements for your company brochure and see what we can do to help promote your business or organisation in the most professional manner.