Paragram Digital – Content design and copywriting
Clare McCarthy – Content designer in Yorkshire
Welcome. I’m a York-based content designer with nearly 10 years experience working on government-led and funded projects at a variety of levels of seniority, including lead. I’ve been lucky enough to have found a career that I feel passionately about. To understand and be understood is one of the most fundamental of human drivers. Content design suits both my love of words and my bordering-on-obsessive need for sense making.
I haven’t always lived in York, or even Yorkshire. Born in Dartford, my studies and career have taken me all over the UK, from Cornwall to Newcastle. A contract with Defra brought my family (me, my husband Replete , and our cat Errol) to York in 2018, and we decided it was the perfect place to settle down. Three years later, our daughter Matilda joined the team.
By day I run my own little company – Paragram Digital Ltd – designing content for public sector clients such as HMRC, Defra, NCSC and DfT. By night, I’m a gamer, voracious reader, horror film nerd, text-based RPG mapper, sometime piano player and substandard knitter. Our wanderlust was put on the back burner for a few years, but expect to see more overseas adventures coming soon.
Paragram Digital – Content design and copywriting
Clare McCarthy – Content designer in Yorkshire