National Education Union — Senior Members Newsletter (Print)

Designed and produced the South-East Region Senior Members’ Newsletter, for the UK’s largest teaching and education trades union, the NEU. Designed to match existing brand and style guidelines, with additional attention paid to accessibility.

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Results

• Distribution: sent via email to all Senior Members in the NEU South-East region
• Turnaround: 2 days from content collation and sub-editing to approval-ready artwork
• Scale: 13 pages (A4)
• Content: 12 articles
• Assets handled: 25+ images/visual assets (incl. editorial illustrations)
• Validation: 3 member feedback messages received following the inaugural issue. Re-hired to update quarterly on an ongoing basis.

Brief

Take a collection of contributions submitted as Microsoft Word Documents, and collate them into a fully designed A4 newsletter. Final product must deliver a consistent, readable, brand-compliant publication suitable for a Senior Members audience, while supporting multiple article types across a full issue.

My role

Sole designer and producer, responsible for:

• editorial layout and typesetting
• brand compliance and visual consistency
• copy sub-editing to fit space constraints and unify tone
• creation of supporting editorial imagery (incl. one AI-generated illustration and one Illustrator image-trace style piece)

Deliverables

• Full-colour A4 newsletter artwork (distributed both as a digiatl download and a physical version printed with CMYK offset lithography)
• multi-page layout with varied article formats and layout variations
• final approval-ready, accessible PDF

Tools used

• Adobe Illustrator (editorial illustration, image-trace style artwork)
• Adobe Firefly Image Generation (cyberpunk-style editorial classroom illustration)
• Adobe InDesign (layout)

Selected feedback

“That looks great — very professionally done… You’ve done sterling work on it!!” — Peter May (Retired Member, West Sussex)
“Great newsletter — thanks.” — David Wilson (Member, West Sussex)
“Thanks for your efforts on this inaugural magazine…” — Peter Shreeve (Member, Isle of Wight)