About

Cook Design is an editorial design studio owned by Gary Cook. Gary is an award-winning Art Director and has worked on many prestigious magazine titles.

After an initial job as Art Director on Creative Review for three years, under the editorship of Lewis Blackwell, he was approached by the European offices of Time magazine, where he was hired as Associate Art Director by the then Art Director, Paul Lussier.

Three years later and he was introduced to the Financial Times by Creative Director Vince Frost, who was putting the final touches to a new launch for them. Gary was hired as launch Art Director for The Business, the magazine for the Weekend FT and oversaw the design of the magazine for another three years, until it’s sad closure.

After those six years of news and business weeklies and Gary set up Cook Design in 1999. The intention being to work on smaller, bespoke jobs for more varied clients, but also, to have a bit of a rest.

To date, he has been lucky enough to be asked to work on pitches by Haymarket Publications, John Brown Publishing, Redwood Publishing and many others. Most recently he worked on the preliminary designs for Wired UK. He can work remotely, delivering magazines digitally, or is also sometimes available to freelance.

He lives in Hackney, London. Contact him at gary(at)cookdesign(dot)co(dot(uk)