Freelance Artworker for Print Design Based in Brighton, Sussex

Royal Ascot menus layout InDesign by Sarahjane Jackson Freelance Artworker Brighton — *Platform Group, Freelance Artworker*

In-House or Remote Print Design Assistant

Sarahjane provides flexible freelance artwork support, working either remotely or as part of your in-house design team. With advanced Adobe InDesign skills, she produces accurate, consistent, and brand-compliant artwork for brochures, reports, catalogues, manuals, marketing literature, and other print publications.

Using Adobe Photoshop, Sarahjane retouches and prepares images for print, while Adobe Illustrator is used to recreate logos, icons, diagrams, and vector graphics. She supplies professional print-ready artwork, interactive PDFs, and production files that meet commercial printing specifications, helping designers, agencies, and businesses deliver projects on time.

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Print and Design Freelance Artworker in Brighton

Freelance Artworker, InDesigner, Brighton, Sarahjane Jackson

Freelance Adobe InDesign Artworker Available for Hire in Brighton

Sarahjane provides flexible freelance artwork support for print and design projects in Brighton, East Sussex. Available to hire by the hour, she helps designers, agencies, and businesses with Adobe InDesign artwork, layout production, amendments, and print-ready files.

Highly organised and adaptable, Sarahjane can support projects at short notice or be booked in advance. Based close to Brighton city centre, she can work in-house or remotely using the latest Adobe Creative Cloud software.

Sarahjane worked with Door 22 on the Fringe Brochure layout, preparing pages with a focus on consistency, accuracy, and efficient production. Using Adobe InDesign styles, master pages, and keyboard shortcuts, she streamlined the workflow while maintaining a clean and organised layout.

For more information about Sarahjane’s skills and services, please visit her Artworker page.

Interactive PDF Booking Form Design by Freelance Artworker Brighton

Interactive PDF created by Sarahjane Jackson Freelance Artworker

Adobe InDesign Forms Designed for Easy Digital Completion

Sarahjane designs professional interactive PDF booking forms that are simple to complete on screen and suitable for both digital use and printing. Using Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat, she creates clear, well-structured forms with editable fields, tick boxes, drop-down menus, and signature areas where required.

Interactive PDF forms provide a convenient alternative to paper forms, allowing customers to complete, save, and return documents electronically while maintaining your company’s branding. Every form is carefully designed to be easy to read, user-friendly, and consistent with your existing visual identity.

Whether you need booking forms, registration forms, application forms, questionnaires, or business documents, Sarahjane creates professional, branded PDFs that help streamline administration and improve the customer experience.

Please get in touch with Sarahjane using the contact form to discuss your next project. Whether you need freelance artwork, print-ready production, Adobe InDesign support, or ongoing design assistance, she’d be delighted to hear from you.

Illustrator drawings copied and draws from photographs

Hand drawn Illustrator drawings from a photographs Freelance Artworker Brighton

Installation Diagrams in Adobe Illustrator

Sarahjane creates clear, accurate installation diagrams in Adobe Illustrator by tracing over photographs to produce simple vector illustrations. Designed to match your exact specifications, these diagrams are ideal for user guides, installation instructions, technical manuals, websites, and printed materials.

Created as vector artwork, the illustrations can be scaled to any size without losing quality, ensuring crisp, professional results for both print and digital use. Sarahjane can also supply web-ready JPEG and PNG files in the correct sizes and formats, making it easy to use your diagrams across multiple platforms.

Killer Creative, Freelance Artworker.

Visit Sarahjane’s testimonials page to read reviews from clients and design agencies, and discover why she’s trusted to deliver accurate, high-quality artwork on time and to the highest standard.

Hotel desktop publishing artwork layout

Freelance Artworker & Desktop Publishing (DTP)

An artworker specialises in desktop publishing (DTP), preparing and adapting artwork for both print and digital use while ensuring every file is accurate, consistent, and ready for production. Sarahjane has worked with businesses across a wide range of sectors, including hotels, golf courses, spas, restaurants, and many other industries, producing high-quality marketing literature, brochures, menus, leaflets, and digital assets.

Creative agencies and designers often develop the branding and visual identity for a business but, during busy periods, need an experienced artworker to recreate, resize, and roll out artwork across multiple formats. This detailed production work requires precision, organisation, and a keen eye for consistency, allowing designers to focus on creative concepts while Sarahjane ensures every finished piece is produced to the highest standard.

The Ideas House, Freelance Artworker is Sarahjane Jackson

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Brighton-Based Remote Freelance Artworker

Home Office Adobe InDesign and Photoshop Artwork

Working remotely from her home office, Sarahjane Jackson was commissioned to create a staff stock catalogue using existing website branding, including colours, logos, and fonts. The 26-page catalogue featured a simple, structured table layout with product images, designed to grow over time while remaining flexible and easy to update. Sections could be added or removed while maintaining the required order and consistency.

Following the success of the first catalogue, Sarahjane produced two additional catalogues, two order forms, and a printed stock leaflet. Using the latest Adobe Creative Cloud software, she created the layouts in Adobe InDesign, prepared print-ready PDFs, and managed the proofing process by supplying files for amendments and manager feedback.

Graphic Designer Assistant is an Freelance Artworker

Graphic Design Assistant Artworker — Wired Sussex Job Fair Paper, Artworker by Sarahjane Jackson, Brighton

Populate 8 printed page local newspaper

Sarahjane used Brian previous artwork and recreated the new updated Wired Sussex Job Fair paper. Working in-house in the Brighton studio with the latest InDesign. Copy sent approved and added to layout. Creating a new map from scratch using Illustrator, keeping everything print ready for the tight deadline.

Brian Kidd Graphic Designer, Artworker

Branded Microsoft Word template created by Artworker at Fruit Design, Brighton

Branded Microsoft Word template created by Sarahjane Jackson, Freelance Artworker Brighton UK

Microsoft Word can be tamed by a designer!

Sarahjane created a Microsoft Word template for University of Cambridge, using Fruit Design‘s InDesign template. They wanted a template to help standardise all their paperwork. Fruit Design’s designer had created the new brand, Sarahjane recreated this style into Microsoft Word. Using headers, footers and Microsoft styles to create a variety of templates. Once these templates are save, it is hard to save over, always giving you a new document.

Assistant to other Artworker’s, Freelancers working together in Sussex

Freelance Artworker assisting other Freelance Designers

Sarahjane is very happy helping out other fellow freelancers, Designers and Artworkers, in-house or remotely. Urgent projects with tight deadlines can crop up unexpectedly and or all at once. A picture heavy layout, updated with many different languages. Communication is key to have the correct text on the correct page.

Justin Ross Artworker working for Babel

Resource Booklet Recreated and Rebranded

Artworker Recreates Print-Ready Artwork

Sarahjane can recreate and update existing artwork from a variety of sources, including old QuarkXPress files, PDFs, printed samples, or even photographs. Whether artwork needs refreshing, rebranding, or converting into a professional print-ready file, she can carefully rebuild layouts while maintaining accuracy and consistency.

Once recreated, future amendments are quick and efficient using PDF comments and sticky notes, making the proofing process simple for clients and designers. Sarahjane ensures all final artwork is correctly prepared for print, with attention to detail throughout every stage of production.

Catalogue design layout by Freelance Artworker in Brighton

Catalogue design layout Freelance Artworker in Brighton

Sarahjane Jackson Freelancer InDesigner Brighton

This Artworker enjoys working alongside Senior Designers, to create consistent layouts and to a very tight deadline. With a basic InDsign template, text and images sourced and artwork to fit these catalogue pages.

Sarahjane Jackson Artworking for DJH Advertising Artworker

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Converting QuarkXPress Files into Adobe InDesign

Quark Layout Converted into an Adobe InDesign File

Older QuarkXPress layouts can be converted into Adobe InDesign files, but online conversion tools will usually only provide the basics. Colours, images, and text may transfer across, but the converted document often requires further artwork, formatting, and proofing to ensure it is production-ready.

As an experienced artworker, Sarahjane understands that converted files can contain hidden issues, such as unnecessary text boxes, incorrect styles, and inconsistent formatting. Rather than relying on a conversion alone, she can rebuild layouts properly in Adobe InDesign, creating a clean, organised, and reliable file that is ready for print and easier to update in the future.

Data tables imported from Microsoft Word to Adobe InDesign by Freelance Artworker

InDesign data tables in a A5 ring binder document

Table design is quick when you know how

Table design is neat and tidy and can be achieved with Adobe InDesign styles for a consistent look and feel. A colour of font change can be made with one click instead of multi page amends. Using InDesign, the tables flow nicely from page to page the same a Microsoft Word and can be easily imported. There is more control in InDesign to Word and will look more professional.

UK Power Networks Artworker at Image Data Group

Point of sale shop posters ready for print by Freelance Artworker Brighton

Point of sale shop posters print ready artwork by Freelance Artworker Sarahjane Jackson

Quick and organised InDesign Artworker

It is great to work at a printers to see where the print ready artwork goes. Creating posters from huge spreadsheets, quickly collating images, prices and T&Cs. Working with great images ready for printing on these POS poster. Branding is simple, using styles for consistency.

BB Printing, Freelance Artworker, Sarahjane Jackson

Strict Design Brand Guidelines for Product Learning Guides

John Lewis Partnership, Freelance Artworker at Image Data Group

Rebranding Hundreds of Product Learning Guide Leaflets

Sarahjane was commissioned by Image Data Group to rebrand hundreds of product learning guide leaflets for John Lewis Partnership, creating updated versions for each individual product while following strict brand guidelines. Although John Lewis Partnership has its own in-house design team, they required an experienced artworker who could work accurately and efficiently through a large-scale rebrand project.

Using her advanced Adobe InDesign skills, Sarahjane applied the new templates, maintained brand consistency, and ensured every leaflet followed the required layout, typography, and styling specifications. Her organised approach and attention to detail allowed the project to progress quickly while maintaining the high standards expected of a leading retail brand.

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Text-Heavy Craft Manuals Designed in Adobe InDesign

Work manual document print ready layout by Freelance Artworker Sarahjane Jackson — *Image Data Freelance Artwork*

Applying Corporate Branding to Complex Technical Documents

Sarahjane undertook the challenging task of producing EDF’s text-heavy craft manuals in Adobe InDesign. The project involved eight manuals, each approximately 600 pages long. The original 1970s manuals were scanned into Microsoft Word files, which Sarahjane imported, formatted, and transformed into consistent, professional publications.

Working from the designer’s corporate branding and guidelines, Sarahjane created structured styles to maintain accuracy and consistency throughout every document. She also built automated contents pages and navigation links for each section, making the large manuals easier to use and update.

Highly organised with a logical approach to problem solving, Sarahjane ensured this complex publishing project was completed efficiently while maintaining strict brand and production standards.

What is an Artworker?

Artworker EDF Manual Indesign — *Artworker EDF Manual Created in Adobe InDesign*

An Artworker Is the Designer’s Mechanic

A car designer creates the vision, but it’s the mechanic who builds, fine-tunes, and keeps the vehicle running smoothly. The relationship between a graphic designer and an artworker is much the same.

While designers focus on creativity and visual concepts, a professional artworker specialises in production, using Adobe InDesign to its full potential with master pages, paragraph and character styles, tables of contents, GREP where appropriate, and efficient keyboard shortcuts. This expertise makes artworkers faster and more accurate when producing large documents such as catalogues, brochures, reports, tenders, and other complex publications.

An artworker creates clean, well-structured layouts that maintain consistency, follow corporate branding guidelines, and are easy to update when client amendments arrive. By anticipating future changes and organising studio files including images, Word documents, PDFs, and version-controlled artwork projects remain efficient and accessible for the whole team.

Ultimately, an artworker takes care of the technical production, allowing designers to focus on what they do best: creating outstanding design.