News & Features design portfolio
Sports design portfolio

Chris Blackhurst has been working in publishing for weekly, regional and national newspapers and magazines since 1999.

As assistant head of production for a busy 29-strong production team, chris currently designs news and feature pages for the Stoke Sentinel newspaper - a busy five-edition daily regional, as well as several weekly newspapers, freesheets and supplements.

As well as experience sub-editing for national newspapers such as the Sunday Express, Sunday Star and Daily Mail, Chris spent three years working as a sports layout design sub-editor across Trinity Mirror's Chester Chronicle Series' 12 weekly titles, helping the group pick up several national awards along the way.

Chris is proficient in several design and layout packages including GN3 TERA, QuarkXpress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.