"Leanne recently undertook complex map checking for me.
She is very thorough and has an exceptional eye for detail. She made sure she knew what was expected before she started on
the work and she was quick to grasp the task at hand.
Dealing with Leanne
is a pleasure – she is straight-forward, professional, friendly, helpful and reliable."
Elizabeth Donald - Cartographic Editor, HarperCollins Publishers
"Cream Design would thoroughly
recommend Leanne. She is very thorough, with great attention to detail. Worked to extremely tight deadlines with very fair
pricing."
Helen
Waring - Owner, Cream
Design
"Leanne worked on maps for a book publishing project for me last year. Her knowledge
on both the rights and technical aspects of the work were invaluable and her work was on the highest standard. She worked
quickly and efficiently and communicated well at all stages. I would love to work with Leanne again."Claire
Rochford - Head of Design, Quadrille Publishing
"Leanne helped my team on a cartographic book recently. She was knowledgeable and fitted
in extremely well with the team. I'll be happy to commission her again and would highly recommend her cartographic skills."
Philip Letsu - Managing
Art Editor, Dorling
Kindersley
"Leanne Kelman worked with us
on the creation of 60 groundbreaking new wine and landscape maps for the 700-page book Inside Bordeaux, published
Spring 2020. Several of these maps are printed in ‘gatefold’ form, with the content ranging from detailed
topographic maps via large-scale vineyard plans to very intricate soil maps displaying multiple colours
and patterns.
This was a three-year project, and the maps included a set of geology
and soil maps that use previously-unpublished research data (for once, ‘groundbreaking' is exactly the right
word). The nature of the maps and the briefs meant that considerable interpretation was involved, with multiple sets
of amends and frequent addition of new material. Leanne worked with our cartographic editor and with the scientific
consultants, the art director and the author to resolve often contradictory requirements.
The resulting maps have been praised by reviewers and readers, and are being used by the academic staff of the Bordeaux
Advanced Wine Studies Institute to teach students.
Leanne is already at work with us on
a new book in the same series, and we would warmly recommend her to anyone needing cartographic skills – hoping,
though, that she gives us first call on her services."
Chris Foulkes, Carrie Segrave
BB&R Press
Segrave Foulkes Publishers
"Leanne Kelman drew the wonderful maps for Inside Bordeaux,
a book on the Bordeaux wine region that I spent three years writing, published in 2020. The maps have elevated the entire
book, and I'm delighted with them every time I open it! They manage to present complicated concepts of terroir and appellation
in an extremely clear and beautifully designed format, and are a pleasure to use."
Jane Anson - Journalist & Author of Inside Bordeaux
"Leanne
was great to work with. She was very efficient and made sure she knew exactly
what was needed before making a start. When we had some difficulties with the
authors, she did her best to accommodate their requests and remained
professional and courteous throughout. Highly recommend."Anna MacDiarmid - Commissioning Editor, Bloomsbury
Publishing Plc
"I am a self-publishing author and found Leanne’s
site using Google. I asked her to do 11 pieces of artwork including maps, flow charts and a family tree. I was absolutely
delighted with her work which was beautifully presented and accurate. I found it a pleasure to work with her and she was prompt
and totally reliable. Highly recommended."
David Taylor - Author
"Leanne worked extremely quickly and
thoughtfully to produce great looking maps on a tight timescale and to a specific style. We are very happy with the result
and it was a pleasure to work with her. Highly recommended.”
Catherine Gregg - Managing Editor, RIBA
"I recently asked Leanne to provide the artwork for a reprint of one of my schematic
map book titles. I thought this might be tricky as the previous editions had been constructed by several contributors and
she would not have been familiar with much of the terminology. However, she dealt with this in an extremely efficient
manner and delivered an excellent product to a tight time schedule. I will definitely be asking Leanne to work on further
titles."
Mike Bridge - Owner, Trackmaps
"Leanne produced ten county
maps and one overall map to our specifications for our annual group travel tourism directory. The maps were so good that they
have now also been incorporated in to our new web design! Leanne was professional, thorough and quick in production and a
delight to work with; I thoroughly recommend her.”
Anna Wilson-Barnes - Travel Trade Marketing Manager, Tourism
South East
"It has been a pleasure to work with Leanne; she is courteous
and very professional. Her work is highly recommended."
Robert Forsyth - Managing Director, Chevron Publishing
"I have found Leanne to be extremely helpful and proficient and would
use her service again at every opportunity”
Trevor Jenner - Meru
Publishing
"Leanne is great to work with; she produced the maps I required both accurately and
quickly. I have no hesitation in recommending her."
Heather Boisseau - Publishing Manager, RedDoor Publishing
"We recently asked Leanne to
create a number of maps to a specific brief and map style. Leanne delivered the finished maps on time and to a very high standard.
Overall we were very happy with her work. We will definitely be asking Leanne to work with us on future projects."
Thomas Coulson - Encompass
Graphics Ltd
"Leanne provided maps for an edited volume to a difficult
brief. Source materials varied from one contributor to another and maps had to be standardised between chapters. She worked
accurately, efficiently and promptly to supply an excellent service."
Alan Lester - Professor,
University of Sussex
"Excellent map drawing skills and high professionalism. I would not hesitate
to recommend Leanne."
Simon Boi - Director, Boi Creative
"Leanne is well
known as a person who provides a fuss free speedy and first class cartography service"
Hugo Boylan - Executive
Chairman, Newgrove
"Leanne's first job for us was delivered fast,
with high quality and thoughtful creative input. She is a professional who can follow a brief and create maps to a high standard.
We have asked her to work on two further projects"
Christopher Foulkes - Owner, Segrave Foulkes
Publishers
"Leanne has proven to be a consistently reliable and punctual contractor in providing a high quality
digital cartography service. Would be happy to use Leanne's cartography services in the future."
Mike Holt - Operations Director, Pindar Creative.
"Leanne has worked hard and at short notice to provide us with mapping for Earth Platinum
that is second to none."
Gordon
Cheers - Managing Director, Millennium
House.
"I
would recommend Leanne to anyone, her work is excellent quality and great value, and she is a delight to work with."
David Stephens - Managing Director, Lovell
Johns Ltd.
"Leanne
is highly reliable, eye for detail, can think outside the box, fast turn around on any given task. She is an asset to have
on your team whatever the assignment has been set, as no task is too much to ask of her. I would highly recommend her to any
future mapping project."
Craig MacAlpine
- Data Manager/Map Creator, Geographx.
"Leanne's work is always to a high standard and she completes tasks promptly and efficiently.
She is proficient enough to see a task through with minimal guidance and she is pleasant and friendly to deal with."
Louisa Keyworth - Project Manager, Lovell Johns
Ltd.
