Julian Bovis is a British artist and award-winning

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

. He was born in

Banbury Banbury is an historic market town and civil parish on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. The parish had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census. Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding ...

, United Kingdom, and studied Architecture at the

University of Plymouth The University of Plymouth is a public research university based predominantly in Plymouth, England, where the main campus is located, but the university has campuses and affiliated colleges across South West England. With students, it is the ...

Magazines

Bovis worked on ''

Melody Maker ''Melody Maker'' was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest. In January 2001, it was merged into "long-standing rival" (and IPC Media sister publicatio ...

'' in 1990 before joining the

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

's now defunct pop magazine, ''No.1''. In 1991 he was part of the ''

Inside Soap ''Inside Soap'' is a weekly soap opera and television listings magazine published in the United Kingdom. The magazine is currently released every Tuesday. It covers storylines featured in British and Australian soap operas that are broadcast in t ...

'' magazine launch team before moving back to the United Kingdom to design the British version.

Newspapers

In 1992 he redesigned the '' Daily Star'', ''

Lancashire Evening Post The ''Lancashire Post'' is a daily newspaper based in Fulwood, a suburb of the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. Until 14 January 2017 it was known as the ''Lancashire Evening Post''. According to the British Library The British Library ...

'' and ''

Blackpool Gazette The ''Blackpool Gazette'' (locally marketed as simply ''The Gazette'') is an English daily newspaper based in Blackpool, Lancashire. Published every day except Sunday, it covers the towns and communities of the Fylde coast. It was founded as '' ...

''. In 1995 Bovis art directed the ''

Edinburgh Evening News The ''Edinburgh Evening News'' is a daily newspaper and website based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded by John Wilson (1844–1909) and first published in 1873. It is printed daily, except on Sundays. It is owned by National World, whic ...

'' and he won Scottish Newspaper Design of The Year for the

Dunblane massacre The Dunblane massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, near Stirling, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton killed 16 pupils and one teacher and injured 15 others before killing himself. It remains the d ...

. After winning two more design awards in 1998 and 2000, Bovis joined the 2001 National Newspaper Awards judging panel. In 1999 he worked with broadcaster Jeff Randall as part of the ''

Sunday Business ''Sunday Business'' was a national Sunday broadsheet financial newspaper published in the United Kingdom, which ran from 1996 to 2006, when it was turned into a magazine called '' The Business''. History The newspaper was founded by Tom Rubyth ...

'' newspaper launch team and in 2003 joined ''

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was found ...

'' as executive design editor where he was responsible for some of the newspaper's most noted front pages, including the award-winning Boxing Day edition of the

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+07:00, UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicenter, epicentre off the west coast of Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The Submarine earthquake, undersea ...

and the 2005 front page celebrating London's winning bid for the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

. His work on the

7 July 2005 London bombings The 7 July 2005 London bombings, also referred to as 7/7, were a series of four co-ordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamist terrorists that targeted commuters travelling on Transport in London, London's public transport during the ...

won ''The Daily Telegraph'' the European Newspaper Design Award.

Internet

In the summer of 2006 he re-designed ''The Daily Telegraph''s website increasing the monthly pages views from 41.6 m to 52.8 m and in 2008 oversaw the re-design of the ''Daily Sport'' newspaper and Sport Media Group's online titles.

Awards

1996 Scottish Newspaper Design of The Year ''Edinburgh Evening News'' 1998 Newspaper Design of The Year for Sunday Business Newspaper ''Sunday Business'' 2000 Newspaper Design of The Year for Sunday Business Newspaper ''Sunday Business'' 2004 Newspaper Design of The Year ''The Daily Telegraph'' 2005

European Newspaper Award European Newspaper Award is a design competition for European newspapers. The competition was founded and organized by newspaper designer Norbert Küpper from Meerbusch, Germany. He co-operates with the journalist magazines '' Medium Magazin'' ( ...

: The 7/7 London Bombings ''The Daily Telegraph'' 2015

John Ruskin Prize John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Ep ...

: Shortlisted Campaign_For_ Drawing

References

External links

Julian BovisJohn Ruskin Prize ShortlistUley Exhibition20:20 RichmondDaily Sport RelaunchAwards Judging PanelSeventh European Newspaper Award 17.3: Terror In LondonNewspaper Awards1998 Newspaper AwardsTelegraph Online Re-DesignThe Daily Telegraph Online Re-design
*Sunday Business Newspaper
Record Cover DesignLast of the Broadsheets
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