Graphic Design

I specialise in working with art and cultural organisations, artists, writers, publishing presses and small businesses.

Branding, logo, creative book cover, web design, newsletter, social media graphics, flyers, posters, digital illustration, digital and analogue photography, fashion pattern design, art documentation, editorial, creative software, workshops, one-to-one tuition.

Please feel free to reach out and contact me.

I would be happy to hear all about your exciting project ideas!

eva@evamegias.com

+44 (0)7581 264525

Creative Book Design

I create cover designs, front and back, for books, magazines, booklets or brochures.

You can provide the images, or I can create a bespoke design with illustration, typography and photography work.

Book cover for "Sometimes at Night I Watched Myself in Candle-light" by Eve Rubin, featuring a watercolor illustration of a leafless tree on a yellow background with some blue and white at the bottom.
Book cover titled 'In Transit' by Brigid Brophy with a pink background and horizontal wavy stripes in light pink, white, and turquoise.
Diagram of a simple electric circuit with a battery, switch, and resistor, showing the directions of current flow from positive to negative terminal.
Open book with text about nautical star tattoo and a large black nautical star symbol on the right page, placed on an orange background.

Editorial, layout and typesetting

Layouts of inside text and images help make a project exciting, enabling you to engage the reader and share information clearly.

Different projects have different visual needs - from storytelling to data.

I will work with you to choose attractive typography, imagery and colour palettes. Designs can go to print and digital platforms.

  • Five Elements of Hatha Yoga

    Five Elements of Hatha Yoga

  • Singing for Our Lives

    Singing for Our Lives

  • Book cover titled 'Smashed Peaches' with illustrated peaches and peach slices on a black background and a greenish background.

    Smashed Peaches

  • Sometimes at Night I Watched Myself in Candle-light

    Sometimes at Night I Watched Myself in Candle-light

  • Sal de ti. Entra en les demas

    Sal de ti. Entra en les demas

  • Women of Westminster

    Women of Westminster

  • The Bowl with Jagged Edge

    The Bowl with Jagged Edge

  • Fat Activism

    Fat Activism

  • Black and white illustrated book cover titled 'Lesbians Are Dying Out' by Kay Hyatt, featuring drawings of tombstones, a cross, and lesbian symbols.

    Lesbians Dying Out

  • Queer Zine Dictionary

    Queer Zine Dictionary

  • Life Is War

    Life Is War

  • Veganism, sex and politics book

    Veganism, sex and politics

  • Making Pink Lemonade book

    Making Pink Lemonade

  • Aguas Internacionales fanzine

    Aguas Internacionales

  • Feminist Library Calendar

    Feminist Library Calendar

Logo with the word 'ARCHIVE' written diagonally across three orange numbers 3 and 3.

Branding

I design branding for art organisations, creative industries, artists, writers, indie publishing presses, and small businesses. Logo takes on multiple shapes depending on who we would like to talk to, what we are communicating in our marketing campaigns.

Two vertical text designs of the word 'BARDO' with a curly line connecting the letters, one in black outline and the other in solid red, on a white background.
Black and white illustration of a hand giving a thumbs-up, with the words 'Good Being a Girl' written across the fingers.
A line drawing of a person holding a book, with the words "The Feminist Library Running Club" written in a circle around the person.
Logo with hand graphics of 'e' and 'e' and the word "PHOTOGRAPHY" underneath.
Logo of a black banner with pink text reading 'SEA CHANGE THEATRE'
Logo with the word 'FÄRÖ' and stylized dashed curved lines above it.
A circular black and white graphic featuring a cartoon dragon holding art supplies with the words "Feminist Graphic Artist" around the border.
Overlapping Venn diagram with yellow, pink, and orange circles.
Black and white graphic of the words 'merry press' in stylized script font.
Logo of a monkey with rainbow gradient hues on a white background.
Logo of a fawn with three spots.
Logo of a building with three windows and a sign that reads "The Feminist Library on Loan at The Showroom."

Drawing Workshops, Zine Workshops, Open Source, Creative Software Tuition

Drawing Workshops, Zine Workshops, Open Source, Creative Software Tuition

A crowded room filled with young people engaged in arts and crafts at a workshop, surrounded by bookshelves.

Workshops

I’ve taught workshops on photography, design, drawing, digital art, zine making, and chess for many years.  I like to make my lessons a fun, enjoyable experience, giving the students space to explore themselves. With a background in art history,y I bring knowledge of many art movements as an inspiration.

Teaching spaces: QueerCircle, Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Create Ahh, Antiuniversity Now, CoolTan Arts, Pati Llimona, Feminist Library, Barbican Centre, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

  • Colorful doodles and abstract drawings, including a large leaf, a butterfly, a sun, and various squiggly lines and shapes with words like "fill" and "no" written in different areas.

    Create ahhh

  • Colourful zines displayed on a table, including a yellow card with a hand-drawn smiling face and the message 'Thank you for reading'.

    Barbican Centre

  • Four people standing around a large white sheet on the floor, covered in colourful scribbles and drawings, with art supplies scattered nearby, in an art gallery setting.

    Anti University Now

  • Drawing of a person with their arms raised, holding a speech bubble that reads 'I AM POWERFUL.' A boxing glove is resting on a person's leg, and the drawing is on a piece of paper placed on a table, with a wooden floor in the background.

    Tate Modern

An illustration featuring the open source software Gimp, Scribus and Inkscape logos.

Tuition on Creative Software

    • Basic Tuition: Learn about layers, selection tools, image adjustments, retouching, and compositing.

    • Advanced Tuition: Focus on photo manipulation, advanced masking techniques, digital painting, and creating composites.

    • Basic Tuition: Understand layout design, working with text and images, and creating print-ready documents.

    • Advanced Tuition: Learn about advanced typography, grids, multi-page documents, and interactive PDFs.

    • Basic Tuition: Master vector design, the Pen Tool, shape building, and typography.

    • Advanced Tuition: Learn complex logo design, pattern creation, and designing for various media (e.g., print, digital).

D-M Withers, Lurid Editions

“Eva is a brilliant graphic designer with particular expertise in book design, photography, illustration (especially comics) and story-telling.
Eva has a unique ability to listen to client ideas, feelings and intentions for a piece of graphic design, translating them into tangible forms with vibrancy, clarity, originality and impact. Similarly, if you have a very specific brief, Eva can bring those ideas to life too.
Eva has passion, imagination, dedication and technical skill - all qualities you need to realise your project and feel like you are working with a safe pair of hands.
Eva is fun to work with, reliable and has exceptional eye for detail. Highly recommended!”

Sarah O'Mahoney, Author

“Eva’s amazing design and typesetting of my first book -Making Pink Lemonade- made the whole thing come alive and captured exactly the feel and look I wanted.
As for the suffragette coloured logo for my Good Being A Girl website, it sums up the brand. Eva listened and advised, and I felt very much part of the design process.”

Let’s work together

Cover of a book titled 'A Jingle Jangle Song' by Mariana Villa-Gilbert, with pink confetti-like design on a light grey background and Lurid Editions logo at the bottom.
Eva Megias, a graphic designer, sits at a wooden table outdoors, surrounded by a large tree and a crowd of people in the background, under a wooden shelter with string lights, all overlaid with a rainbow filter.
Flyers promoting the Feminist Library with the message "Become a Friend of the Feminist Library" in bold, stylised text, one in purple and the other in green, with additional text inviting support, and the Feminist Library logo featuring a dragon.