Profile Who is Muddy Publishing?

Independent Design and Publishing Agency

We are a small but experienced design company with a passion for children's illustration, publications, informal learning and creative interpretation. We produce custom designed resources, animation, interactives and visuals that inspire, engage and empower users across a wide and diverse audience. Muddy Publishing is owned and run by Tina and Matt Buckingham who have been creating educational artefacts and illustrations, for print and screen, for more than 15 years. We pride ourselves in producing exciting material that makes learning fun.

"Visual engagement designers with a passion for heritage and learning"

Christina Buckingham (Tina)
Tina is an award-winning designer with a BA (Hons) and Master’s degree in multimedia design, a PG Cert in e-learning and a PhD in design interpretation. Her thesis centred on heritage interpretation and intergenerational engagement. Her interests are equitable design opportunities connecting audiences with heritage and culture along with family-friendly STEM interpretation. Tina has many years of commercial experience working on creative projects for some excellent clients including The Royal Collection Trust and The Horniman Museum.
Matt Buckingham
Matt has been writing and illustrating children's books and media since 1998, his most famous work includes the best selling picture book series Bright Stanley, along with many other children's books including Nobody Laughs at a Lion!, The Not So Abominable Snowman and Peek-a-boo Penguins. Matt has also worked for a wide variety of clients from the BBC to Mencap solving creative problems for editorial and advertising projects. Find out more about Matt on his dedicated illustration website.