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<\/span>Hi, my name is Graham Hales and I am a freelance typesetter working from home, in Derby.\u00a0Having served a\u00a0five-year\u00a0apprenticeship at a local jobbing printer as a hand-compositor in the 1970s with hot-metal, linotypesetting, monotypesetting, phototypesetting and paste-up \u2013 exploring the delights of Letraset, Rotring pens, scalpels, drawing boards and camera work in a dark room \u2013 soon after I started my own design and print-brokering business.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Eight years later I left to become a director of a small, local publishing company, Breedon Books, as its only book designer in 1989. The digital age had arrived. Quickly, we grew that company to become the largest independent football\u00a0book publisher in Europe, which included the notable\u00a0Complete Record of football clubs, and historical picture volumes\u00a0of many towns and cities using newspaper archives. Bookshops, especially WHSmiths, loved us. Besides designing and typesetting these titles,\u00a0and liaising with the printers,\u00a0I often had to help hand-unload the huge transits\u00a0that arrived\u00a0with pallets of\u00a0books, pack them and deliver them too, we all had to muck-in.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Having completed over 700 book titles, and deciding to leave in 2006, I am again primarily a freelance designer, undertaking book and cover work for the publishing industry. I have worked with a variety of clients and many of the titles produced have been either sport, biographies,\u00a0history and local history, poetry and transport \u2013 some had a high photographic content.<\/p>\n

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(Top) My biggest ever project size-wise was when the local newspaper wanted a bus decorated with their advertising to go around the county. I had to get it painted black and burgundy, then add the gold and silver lettering, all at the bus depot. At that time [early 1980s] we were the first to give this a try and it really caught on. (Middle) Before desktop publishing, this is how we rolled in the eighties, working at a drawing board. Here I am producing a school newsletter, aided by two of its pupils from Peartree School. (Bottom) This book I designed and typeset in 2007 won the distinguished Wisden Book of the Year.<\/h3>

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