The best UK magazine Art Director. Almost.

David Ashford

After achieving both of my earliest professional ambitions in my 20’s by art directing a sex manual (The Lover’s Guide) and a football magazine (BBC Match of the Day Magazine), my 30’s turned me into something of a ‘Scorsese of the customer publishing world’. For four successive years for my work on BA’s magazines I was shortlisted as APA Designer of the Year but ended up finger clapping somebody else every time. Rather than chancing the indignity of a fifth straight wasted tux hire, I uprooted my family of four (now five) and shipped us all to the other side of the world where I now Art Direct Australia’s Men’s Health magazine in Sydney and spend long sunny days on Sydney’s beaches encouraging those ever so-shy Australian celebrities to remove their shirts for me.