Tania Lauryn Croft
Owner tlc design studio – Freelance Art Director
May 2011 - present
• Art Editor – Professional Photo Magazine – https://professionalphoto.online/
• Ongoing design assistance for Scratch UK
• Art Editor – Phoenix – Dual-language EFL children's magazine in China
• Art Editor – Scratch Middle East – Dual-language magazine in the UAE
• Art Editor – South County magazine
• Ongoing promotional work for Olympia Beauty
• Ongoing promotional work for Nailympia
• Ongoing work for ProDriver magazine
• Art Editor – Period Homes & Interiors
• Horse magazine – June 2014 issue Art Editor cover
• Horse magazine – Bookazine 2014 design assistance
• Restoration of historic images, including small and major repairs and colourisation
• Art Editor for Gloss magazine in association with Nail Harmony
• Maternity cover for Scratch and Gloss magazines
• Freelance Art Editor cover for Rugby World magazine
IPC Media (now Time Inc. UK)
Jan ’00 – April ‘11: Aeroplane Monthly – Art Editor
• Sole art position (+production first 5yrs) on a very small and busy team
• Extensive scanning and retouching from old prints and glass negatives
• Two major re-designs/brand strategy over eleven years as Art Editor
• Design and layout to final PDF pages
The Guardian
Mar ’02 – Aug ‘08: Freelance Sunday Art Editor
• Sunday art desk, producing Monday's masthead and content panel
• Sole designer with high responsibility to a very strict 8pm deadline
Moving Pictures International
May ‘98: Freelance Designer based on location in Cannes
• High speed page layout and design for this busy daily magazine
• Based on location in Cannes, covering the Film Festival
IPC Media (now Time Inc. UK)
Sept ‘99: Freelance re-design of Stamp Magazine
• Re-design a new look for Stamp magazine
Jan ‘97 – Dec ‘99: Acting/Deputy Art Editor – Amateur Photographer
Art Editor – What Camera
• Overseeing the art department and approving their work
• Design of editorial pages, front covers plus any supplements
• Hi-res picture editing in Photoshop and proof checking
• Forward planning with heads of other departments
• What Camera Art Editor, involving hi-res scanning and photoshoots
Apr ‘94 – Dec ‘96: Designer – Amateur Photographer & Photo Technique Magazines
• Page design & layout, learning Quark, Freehand & Photoshop
• Assisting on the redesign of Photo Technique magazine
• Acting Art Editor for Photo Technique magazine
Milne Morris Advertising
Apr ‘87 – Mar ‘94: Finished Artist
• Paste-up & design of local and national press advertisements
• Packaging, letterheads, business cards, using traditional methods
• Type setting, copy fitting, half-tone and other effects on PMT camera
• Ordering materials and keeping the studio running smoothly
Tookey Printing/Avocet Studio
Oct ‘84 – Mar ‘87: Junior Designer
• Traditional apprenticeship, PMT camera, type setting, copy fitting
• Intricate hand drawing of forms and business stationery
• Art studio based in a lithographic print house