Design for Book Covers
Ned Hoste started work as a cover designer in 1984 at Sphere Books where he designed covers for authors such as Danielle Steele, Craig Thomas, Christopher Hope and John Simpson among others.
After being at Sphere for 2 years he moved to work for a design group specialising in design for publishing where he gained experience in designing both paperback and hardback book covers for fiction, non-fiction and reference books, along with associated publicity campaigns and exhibitions.
When Ned left the design group he set up 2H with Alison Hepburn.
Since 1988 2H has worked for many of the UK’s major publishers including;
- Random House UK,
- Transworld, Publishers
- Chatto & Windus,
- Jonathan Cape,
- Arrow Books
- Fodor's
- Hodder Headline, among many others
Simon Callow - My Life in Pieces
Gambon
Good Things
Eye of the Storm
Mother Russia Berenice Rubans
Have the men had enough - Chatto & Windus
Angel on the head of a pin - Peter Owen Books
John Farris - Minataur
From both hips
Performing Shakespeare
Reluctant Escapologist
Nick Hern Books and Traverse theatre
Nick Hern Books - Mata Hari
Nick Hern Books - Primo Time
Nick Hern Books - Purgatorio
Nick Hern Books - The Reporter
Nick Hern Books - Conversations with Miller
Nick Hern Books - Conversations with Stoppard
Anthony Burgess
Enoch Powell Biography
Nick Hern Books - Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit
Nick Hern Books - Shakespeare Folio series
Nick Hern Books and Traverse theatre 2
Keys to Tulsa
Clive Ponting - The Right to Know
History of the Theatre - series
Dusk Rings a Bell
Little Eagles
Mush Ado About Nothing
The Seagull
Louisa Elliot
Sweet William
Ken Campbell The Great Caper
Love and information
How musicals work
Last of the Hausmanns
Written on the Heart
Mary Shelley
Cardenio