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. He designed four
European editions of Time on a weekly basis and worked closely with the main magazine
in New York.
Three years on, he was introduced to the Financial Times by Creative Director Vince Frost
Vince was putting the final touches to a new launch for the FT and needed an Art Director
to design the magazine on a weekly basis. 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 its closure by Andrew Gowers, the incoming editor.
After those six years of news and business weeklies, Gary set up Cook Design in 1999.
The intention was to work on smaller, bespoke jobs for more varied clients and to get
involved with more new launches and pitches.
He has designed pitches for Haymarket Publications, John Brown Publishing, Redwood
Publishing and many other publishers. Most recently he worked on the preliminary
designs for Wired UK and has just completed a re-design for Cedar Communications.
He can work remotely, delivering magazines digitally and is also sometimes available for
freelance work in-house.
He lives in Hackney, London.