Rebecca Ingleby (Principal) has worked as designer and art director on leading consumer magazines including Esquire and Cosmopolitan. More recently she has specialised in contract publishing, working closely with clients to produce high circulation magazines including Panda (produced for the World Wildlife Fund), circulation 450,000, and a series of commemorative magazines for Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, which won a special commendation in the Welsh Language Board Bilingual Design awards 2006. She has worked on a wide variety of publications and projects for clients aimed at both niche audiences and a more general readership.

Ray Edgar worked in a variety of creative fields before
co-founding mo design with Rebecca Ingleby in 1997.
As Art Director at mo design he came into contact with many inspirational photographers who influenced the development of his own creative work. His photographs have been exhibited in various galleries, and his work published in many magazines and books. His extensive experience of print management and procuring artwork makes him a crucial creative member of the team at mo. His website design credits include the building and maintenance of mopublications.com.

Francesca Rhydderch is a writer, editor and production manager with over ten years’ experience of the publishing industry in Wales. She has worked in leading roles for cultural magazines Planet: The Welsh Internationalist and New Welsh Review, and for Wales’s largest publishing house, Gomer Press. Her experience encompasses all aspects of book and magazine production, including commissioning, writing, copyediting, proofreading and production and print management. She is a Full Member of Yr Academi Gymreig (the Welsh academy of writers).

Tony Bianchi is a writer, translator and arts consultant. Until 2002, he was head of the Literature Department of the Arts Council of Wales. Since then, his work has included policy research for various national organisations, website editing and translation. His novels are Esgyrn Bach (longlisted for Welsh Book of the Year 2007) and Pryfeta (winner of the 2007 Daniel Owen Award). He is a Fellow of Yr Academi Gymreig (the Welsh academy of writers) and a Full Member of the Welsh Association of Translators.

Mari Arthur has ten years’ direct marketing experience. Her qualifications include a CIM Advanced Certificate in Marketing, and she excels in market research, data analysis and strategic planning. She has been responsible for developing large websites (technical, content and design) and producing promotional printed material. The focus of her marketing activity during the past seven years has been in academia and technology, much of which has been in an international context and has often required extensive travel to promote the Welsh market and activities.

Bethan Mair is an author, editor, translator and production manager. Before going freelance, she was the Senior Editor at Gomer, Wales’s largest publishing house, for ten years. Her publications consistently won awards in Wales and several of her poetry anthologies have become bestsellers. She writes regular columns in the Western Mail and Seren Cymru. Bethan is the Publishing Director of Barn magazine and the administrator of Cwlwm Cyhoeddwyr Cymru, the Welsh-language Publishers’ Association.

Catrin Dafydd is a freelance writer. Her first Welsh-language novel, Pili Pala, reached the longlist of the Wales Book of the Year Award in 2007. Her first novel in English, Random Deaths and Custard, was published last year. She is Editor of the experimental arts magazine Tu Chwith, and she is a scriptwriter for Welsh-language soap opera Pobol y Cwm.

Sarah Fish is a freelance editor and proofreader, whose clients include the University of Oxford’s Voltaire Foundation, the University of Wales Press, Taylor and Francis and Swansea Metropolitan University. She is an Advanced Member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP) and an SfEP Accredited Proofreader.

Ifan Bates worked as a designer at agencies in Birmingham, Rotterdam and London, after gaining a First Class BA (Hons) in Graphic Design. He has also worked as a design consultant to companies in the motor industry, both in the UK and Belgium, and in post-production. In addition to his design work, Ifan produces collage and illustrations.