Coralie Bickford-Smith is an award-winning designer at Penguin Random House in the UK. In 2008 she developed the highly acclaimed series, Penguin Clothbound Classics. She has also published three books of her own: The Worm and The Bird (2017), The Fox and The Star (2015), and The Song of The Tree (2020).
In the videos below, Coralie walks you through her attic studio, talks about her process, and gives tips on how to improve your own illustration skills.
The Creative Review Podcast interviews Coralie
Below is an interview she gave in 2020 with Creative Review in the UK. Creative Review is a bi-monthly print magazine and website that has been bringing the creative community together since 1980.
“With all this success, you might think Bickford-Smith’s career has been a dream. Yet in her conversation with CR’s editor Eliza Williams on the podcast she also discusses the difficulties she had finding her way into being a designer, and other challenges – including a dread of public speaking – that she has had to overcome along the way.”
–Creative Review, 2020
