International collaboration

Adapting an international book is not translation. It is the work of preserving a visual voice while rebuilding it for another language and production system.

Different formats, alphabets and printing techniques often required redrawing titles, rebalancing illustrations or inventing typographic solutions that felt native to the original work.

The process was deeply collaborative: I worked with editors, illustrators and production partners, including Quentin Blake and Rose Blake, to keep the distinctive hand of each book intact.

Across more than one hundred adaptations, I coordinated the details that make an international title feel at home without sanding away what made it recognisable.