Darren Wall Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

As a commissioning editor for Thames & Hudson – one of the world’s most respected illustrated book publishers – I am tasked with developing new publishing projects in the areas of art, design, photography, videogames, music, and pop culture. My role involves all aspects of the publishing process, spanning editorial planning, art direction, financial.

London, United Kingdom

• For over 20 years I have worked in the field of art direction and graphic design for print, collaborating with some of the world’s best known practitioners and working across a broad variety of projects. Recent.
• Acting as crowdfunding, design and production consultant for Ben Kelly, the designer of the iconic Haçienda nightclub in Manchester, on a photographic retrospective book entitled Haçienda Landscapes.
• Conceiving and art directing There Will Be No Quiet, a hybrid autobiography and visual retrospective of Radiohead cover artist Stanley Donwood's life and career.
• Art directing the catalogue for Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt, a major exhibition by the V&A Museum exploring the design and culture of videogames since the mid-2000s.
• Acting as producer and crowdfunding consultant for A Profound Waste of Time, a videogame culture magazine now on its third issue, developed with design graduate Caspian Whistler and based on a zine created as part of.

I co-founded Volume, a curated publishing platform specialising in books on visual culture, which was conceived and built with international illustrated book publisher Thames & Hudson. Eschewing the conventions of mass market publishing, Volume focusses on publishing projects that speak to fandoms, subcultures and niche interests, realising books via.

London, United Kingdom

I am the founder and editor-in-chief of Read-Only Memory, a publishing imprint that specialises in books on videogames and their surrounding subcultures. Founded in 2012, ROM has so far released over 20 titles, unified in their focus on exhaustive research and beautiful design. So far, its books have covered subjects such as Street Fighter II, the Sega.

London, United Kingdom

Faber & Faber is one of the world's best-known independent publishing houses. My role comprised art direction and design for book jackets across the entire publishing list.While at Faber & Faber I oversaw design of the Faber Finds print-on-demand project, to create a bespoke piece of software that would generate unique, print-ready covers for the imprint’s.

London, United Kingdom

Simon & Schuster is an international renowned book publisher best known for its commercial fiction books. My role comprised design for book jackets across the entire publishing list.