Pene Parker is an award winning London-based creative director, stylist and designer. She is widely recognized for her creative approach, the elegance of her design and her ability to work flexibly to demanding schedules and budgets. Collaborating with clients, photographers or film makers to create beautiful images, she explores concepts and designs mood boards to scope out the project and to ensure the delivery of successful solutions to budget and schedule.
After an MA in graphic design from the Royal College of Art, a period as senior designer at Olivetti in Milan and Burberry’s in Barcelona, Pene was art director for Crabtree & Evelyn and created brand identities and packaging for other companies, including Fortnum & Mason and Duchy Originals.
Subsequently, Pene was creative director for BBC Worldwide, where she spent more than seven years developing the BBC’s branding across books, DVDs and TV idents. She then moved into illustrated publishing as the creative director at Mitchell Beazley, where she worked on all aspects of book design and layout on such bestsellers as The Ginger Pig books and various titles for Valentine Warner, Levi Roots, Tana Ramsay and Hugh Johnson.
Since establishing Pene Parker Design in 2010, she has created bestselling books for many leading publishers including Square Peg, for whom she has art directed and designed the internationally bestselling Roasting Tin series which has sold over 1 million copies to date.
In addition to her work as Art Director and Designer, Pene is also in great demand as a stylist and supplier of curated props for book, advertising and video shoots.
Clients include:
Anova, BBC Books, Burberry, Ebury books, Headline, Mitchell Beazley, Quercus, Parragon, Phaidon, Dorset Cereals, Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), Black Sheep, Doubleday, Headline, Hoi Polloi, Kream Communications, LWR Design, Observer Food Monthly, The Telegraph, Raymond Blanc, Simon & Schuster, Stripe Communications, Sariel Heseltine, Two Blue, Wagon TV, Miller’s Nando’s, Kindred, Observer food monthly