Following an undergraduate degree in Graphic Information Design and a postgraduate teaching qualification, he completed a postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Art.

He worked for the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (Netherlands Broadcasting Service) and later for Sebastian Conran Associates before co-founding a studio in East London with Russel Warren-Fisher and Hannah Tofts.

He authored and designed a series of 32 non-fiction children’s books covering science, history, and geography, which were published in 14 languages across 26 countries.

In 1994, he won the American Institute of Physics Award for Science Writing and, in 1997, the Geography Gold Medal for Most Significant Contribution to Geography.

He became Head of Typography at the London College of Printing, then Course Director for the MA in Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, and later served as Academic Programme Leader at the University of Brighton. Eventually, he was appointed Associate Head of School and Head of the Graphic Design Department at Kingston School of Art.