I love books...
and over the last 30 years I've been lucky enough to be designing them. Starting in the late 80s at Quarto, then onto Dorling Kindersley for a further 12 years as an in-house freelance in the Jackets Department where we pushed to get away from the white cut-out covers and succeeded on several occasions. Since then I've been working from home for Vision Sports Publishing, Scholastic and Simon and Schuster amongst others. For the last 10 years I've been juggling work with being a stay-at-home dad to my two kids, which means I have my own focus group whenever I have to do anything to do with dinosaurs (a lot), snakes, creepy crawlies or sharks (almost as much as dinosaurs).
I’m always on the look out for work, and with the kids getting older and more independent I am finding more and more free-time that needs filling. So if you like my work and would like to discuss possible projects, please contact me using the details below:
Neal Cobourne
rkidesign@btinternet.com
07815142867
Awards and nominations
Since working with Vision Sports Publishing, I've picked up several awards and nominations for my sports books:
2010: Centre Court, Winner of the British Sports Book Award for Best Illustrated Sports Book
2011: Twickenham, shortlisted for the British Sports Book Award for Best Illustrated Sports Book
2012: Wimbledon Visions, Winner of the British Sports Book Award for Best Illustrated Sports Book
2014: Wimbledon Annual 2013, shortlisted for the British Sports Book Award for Best Illustrated Sports Book
2017: Portrait of Wimbledon, shortlisted for the 2017 Sportel Award for Best Illustrated Sports Book
2017: Nunquam Dormio, shortlisted for the Arbuthnot Latham Rugby Book of the Year 2017 at the The 2017 Sports Book Awards
2018: Wasps – The Official History, shortlisted for the The London Sporting Club Rugby book of the year at the The 2018 Sports Book Awards
2018: Portrait of Wimbledon, shortlisted for the Thomson Reuters Illustrated Book of the Year at the 2018 Sports Book Awards
2020: Destination Tottenham, shortlisted for the British Sports Book Award for Best Illustrated Sports Book 2020.