Life At Bonnier - Templar Publishing

Meet Will Steele

By Bert Menninga on 2011-06-20
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GROW participant Will Steele switches course for three months.

For Will Steele, it's been the unexpected that best captures his experience trading places in the GROW program, exchanging the U.K. for Sweden and books for magazines. Unexpected like massages at work, starting - and ending - work earlier, and the extras on the job.

Meet Ursula Rogers

By Bert Menninga on 2011-05-31
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GROW participant from the U.K. looks at a different set of rights in Germany.

Even though Foreign Rights Executive Ursula Rogers of Templar Publishing didn't know a word of German, the prospect of seeing how a German company dealt with book rights issues was too tempting to pass up. "Working in foreign rights for a children's publisher in the U.K., I was eager to see how a rights department operates in a foreign company that publishes adult titles," says Rogers.

Trick or Treat

By Bert Menninga on 2010-10-29
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Check out a few tips for Halloween from Bonnier books and magazines.

Photo: Nick Taylor

Whether it's candy or spooks your after, Bonnier can offer a little help in making your Halloween fun.

  • Make your own holiday treats with help from Saveur, here (in English)
  • Scare your kids with Tales from the Haunted House from Templar, here (in English)
  • Or how about Siri and the Terrible Ghost from Tammi,
  • ... read full story

Meet Anna Ågren

By Bert Menninga on 2010-10-19
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Swedish GROW participant Anna Ågren appreciates hand work and learns to adjust to late lunches in the U.K.

Anna Ågren usually works as an art director at the Bonnier Tidskrifter title ToppHälsa. But as a GROW participant she's gotten the chance to move west for several months - to be specific, to Dorking in the U.K. and Templar Publishing. There she works with design development.

Team 15 Combines Strength of Bonnier Publishing

By Bert Menninga on 2010-09-16
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A cross-company group, Team 15, breaks down boundaries within Bonnier Publishing to create new synergies and forge bonds across countries.

Working across boundaries is a great idea, but not always so easy to achieve. So when Richard Johnson became CEO of Bonnier Publishing in 2009, one of the challenges he faced was breaking down corporate and geopgraphic barriers within the different companies within the group. One idea that he came up with became a reality in February 2010, when he created Team 15.

Meet Ellen Adolfsson

By Tora Bonnier on 2010-07-12
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GROW participant Ellen Adolfsson takes on the challenge of unusual and complex book design at Templar in the U.K.

The most exciting thing about Ellen Adolfsson's new position is learning about the abstract art of paper engineering.  "I didn't even know there was such a thing," says GROW participant Adolfsson, 45, who made a switch from being a graphic designer at Bonnier Carlsen in Stockholm to being a designer at Templar in Surrey, England. "This is a new way of thinking to me - books that fold out, things that pop-up off the pages and move.

Meet William Mack

By Bert Menninga on 2010-04-06
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A senior designer trades books in San Francisco for books in London.

William Mack did not start out as a designer. He studied creative writing at university, but when he finished school he ended up working with book covers in New York and eventually he ended up as a senior designer at Weldon Owen in San Francisco. On Feb. 1, he made a temporary switch as a GROW participant, moving from San Francisco to work at Templar Publishing in Dorking in the English countryside, some 50 minutes outside London.

Vampires on the Loose

By Bert Menninga on 2010-02-25
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The current book craze for the undead shows no sign of dying.

Consumers are sucking it up in record numbers. Vampire romance that is, a global phenomenon that doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon. From Stephenie Meyer's global hit series Twilight - both in its book and movie incarnations - to TV series such as First Blood, a love for all things vampire has been a big hit for publishers and producers.

Books for Valentine's from Bonnier

By Bert Menninga on 2010-02-10
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Valentine's Day is catching on all over the world. But not everyone opts to give roses and chocolate to that special someone on February 14. Here's a list of books about love for the holiday from a few of the book publishers within Bonnier.