Chu, Joy, Principal, Joy Chu Designs and free-lance book publishing consultant and designer for clients and publishers all over the US. UCSD Extension instructor since 2008.
Joy Chu teaches Children's Book Illustration I: Thinking in Pictures for the Children's Book Illustration and Children's Book Writing certificate programs.
Joy has art directed and designed hundreds of books, working with many distinguished illustrators including Dow Phumiruk, Cat Min, Ed Young, Richard Jesse Watson, Debbie Tilley, Trina Schart Hyman, Frané Lessac, Jeanette Winter, Debra Fraser, Margot Zemach, Gerald McDermott, Chris Demarest, Barry Moser, David McPhail, Don and Audrey Wood, among others. Prior to running her own studio, she was art director at Harcourt Publishers in San Diego; and in-house designer at Holt, T.Y. Crowell and Knopf, all in New York City. Her work has been cited by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA); the Society of C...Read More