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**YCA**
**Communications**
**DESIGN | PUBLISHING | CULTURE**
Creating brands | branding creatives – for over 25 years Yvonne Courtney has combined her in-depth knowledge of the design and lifestyle industries with an expertise in communications to develop intelligent PR strategies and mentoring that delivers – through a two-pronged approach:
– Initiating bespoke campaigns through an established network of media, tastemakers and commentators – building brand awareness to identified target markets, generating results in the long term in the form of sales, commissions, projects, etc;
– Providing discerning, confidential expertise and a brokerage for collaborations, store events, exhibitions and books.

Communications

DESIGN

PUBLISHING

CULTURE

Working with a wealth of design talent – spanning architects, product, interior, graphic and fashion designers, curators and retailers – Yvonne oversaw raising their profile and promoting/maximising the potential of special projects such as books, exhibitions, new buildings, stores, bars – and ashtrays! Including:

DESIGN MUSEUM, KNOLL, MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES, DIESEL, STEPHEN BAYLEY, APDIG, SEYMOUR POWELL, PIERRE CARDIN, AUDLEY SHOES, ANDREE PUTNAM, V&A, RON ARAD, CHELTENHAM DESIGN FESTIVAL, INFLATE, JOHN LAUTNER, FUTURE SYSTEMS, NIGEL COATES, LUTYENS FURNITURE & LIGHTING, EVA JIRICNA, LIPPA PEARCE, DERNIER & HAMLYN, FRITZ HANSEN, PHILIPPE STARCK, ARAM DESIGNS, TIM PYNE, ROLF SACHS, ROSS LOVEGROVE, ANOUSKA HEMPEL DESIGN, MARC NEWSON, ALDO ROSSI, ETTORE SOTTSASS, GAROUSTE & BONETTI, ENGLENDER, GEOFF HOLLINGTON, PAUL DALY, PETER COOK, RAYMOND LOEWY, CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK, QUEENSBERRY HUNT, DAAB, NEW RENAISSANCE, ISSEY MIYAKE, DAVID CHIPPERFIELD, HABITAT, SKAGEN, DAVID CARSON, POEFORM, NICK BALLENTINE, ETTINGER, PAUL DALY, IMAGINATION, SKK, SPECTRUM, ALESSI, TOTO, HOSTEM, STYLUS, GAE AULENTI, SWAROVSKI, AUDI, JAVIER MARISCAL.

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Communications

DESIGN

PUBLISHING

CULTURE

Yvonne has long held a particular passion for illustrated books and built up an impressive client list of prestigious and influential book and magazine publishers.

This has involved launching new publishing houses Laurence King, Artemis, Ellipsis, Ryland Peters & Small and Nick Hern Books, and handling the UK PR for the entire lists by Taschen, Rizzoli, Flammarion, Academy Editions and Chronicle Books. Magazine projects included launching nest and eye, promoting editions of Art & Design, Architectural Design, Viewpoint, Zoo, The Fred and Our Wonderful Culture, plus promoting Blueprint’s monograph series, published in collaboration with 4th Estate.

PUBLISHERS

RIZZOLI, TASCHEN, NEST, STEIDL, WORDSEARCH, FLAMMARION, LAURENCE KING PUBLISHING, FORM, THE MODERN REVIEW, CHRONICLE BOOKS, EYE MAGAZINE, 4TH ESTATE, BLUEPRINT, RYLAND PETERS & SMALL, ACADEMY EDITIONS, ARTEMIS LONDON, ELLIPSIS LONDON, CORNERHOUSE PUBLICATIONS, PRESTEL, HERBERT PRESS, ZOO MAGAZINE, THE FRED, TREFOIL, IMAGES PUBLISHING, AURUM PRESS, HARVEY MILLER, BARRIE & JENKINS, NICK HERN BOOKS, G+B ARTS, CHAPMAN & HALL/E&FN SPON, REEL POSTER GALLERY, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, ART & DESIGN and DAAB.

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Communications

DESIGN

PUBLISHING

CULTURE

Alongside design and publishing projects, Yvonne Courtney has worked with or initiated collaborations with cultural venues, arts organisations, galleries, stores, specialist societies and trade shows, and orchestrated/project managed design hubs in London’s Westbourne Grove and Fitzrovia districts.

ZWEMMER DESIGN BOOKSELLERS, FITZROVIA NOW, V&A, CHELTENHAM DESIGN FESTIVAL, INSTITUTE OF IDEAS, SELFRIDGES, ICA, SIR JOHN SOANE MUSUEM, POWERHOUSE: UK, THE IMAGE BANK, DESIGN MUSEUM, SCIENCE MUSEUM, SOUTH BANK CENTRE, THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S GALLERY, CUBE, WESTBOURNE DESIGN ROUTE, DESIGN MIAMI/BASEL, APDIG (ALL-PARTY PARLIAMENTARY DESIGN & INNOVATION GROUP), SPECTRUM, REEL POSTER GALLERY, BBC, OUR WONDERFUL CULTURE , CONTRASTS GALLERY, WALL TO WALL TELEVISION and the RSA STUDENT DESIGN AWARDS.