Meet Lena Thunell

Lena Thunell is a graphic designer at Bonnier Carlsen, where she came after starting out in the travel industry. At Weldon Owen in Sydney, Australia, as a GROW participant she is now working on a project that the publisher is putting out together with Discovery Education: the design of 64 titles, each with 32 pages and written for 10-13 year olds.

Thunell explains that the work is quite different compared to what she does at Bonnier Carlsen, even if the design software is the same.

"There's a big difference in how they put out their titles here compared to what I am used to," she says. "At home, I work with a manuscript that's already been written, but here the subject, content, photos and design are decided before the texts are written."

With less than a month left in Sydney, fall has arrived, but it feels more like Swedish summer, Thunell says. "Which isn't bad at all," she says.