Ness Wood
Co-Founder and Tutor
Ness Wood is an award-winning book designer and art director and has worked for many major publishers designing children’s picture books and fiction. She has taught Publishing at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), on the MA Illustration course at Goldsmiths, University of London, run the Cambridge School of Art Summer School (2014-2020) and taught Design History at the University of Brighton.
Her wide-ranging accomplishments in practical design and as a published author with qualifications in design history serve as a solid foundation for all of her work. She is known for her encouraging, straightforward and collaborative approach with illustrators and students.
Ness has been a judge for the prestigious Bologna Ragazzi Award, and in 2018 was part of the winning team at the British Design and Production Awards, in the Graphic Novel Category. Some of her recent book designs include; There's a Tiger on the Train (Mariesa Dulak & Rebecca Cobb); War of the Worlds (retold and illustrated by Chris Mould); and Tokyo Café (Julian Sedgewick & Chie Kutsuwada).
