Christine Ling is a graphic designer in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, graduating from Victoria University and has also completed the Graduate Diploma in Publishing at Whitireia. Working with books has always been her passion and dream. Now she gets to live that with Huia Publishers where no two days are exactly the same working on the full range of books. She is interested in crafting exciting characters, and bringing the words and perspectives of authors and storytellers to life.

Jessica Read is a multidisciplinary designer, originally from Queenstown NZ.  With a degree from Toi Rauwhārangi Massey College of Creative Arts, she has spent time designing with Xero in Wellington and more recently with an agency in London.  Jess enjoys designing books and publications in her spare time, helping bring people’s ideas to life.