Seven people. All still working. Nobody here quit their job to become a full-time course seller — teaching is something we do because we got tired of watching talented juniors learn the wrong things from YouTube.
Founder & Lead Tutor
Marcus started Veresen in 2023 after 11 years of agency work, the last four at a Birmingham studio where he led design for Jaguar Land Rover's internal tools. He teaches Layout Fundamentals and the Portfolio course. Bit obsessive about spacing — he once made an intern redo a pricing page because the padding was 15px instead of 16px. Outside of work he restores mid-century furniture, badly.
teaches: layout fundamentals, portfolio that gets replies
Senior Tutor — Typography
Sophie's the one who refuses to use frameworks. Vanilla CSS only, and somehow her students' work looks better for it. She spent six years at BBC Creative in London working on brand guidelines and campaign sites before moving to Birmingham in 2024. She runs the Typography course and brings in a guest type designer once per cohort. Has spoken at Config twice. Collects vintage type specimen books and will show you photos if you let her.
teaches: typography & type pairing
Tutor — Figma to Code
Daniel came up through the bootcamp route — School of Code, 2022 cohort — and then did two years at a Digbeth dev shop building sites for local restaurants and retailers. He's the person you want when a Figma file has 47 unnamed auto-layout frames and you need to turn it into clean HTML by Friday. Patient, methodical, and surprisingly funny when you get him going about icon fonts.
teaches: figma to production code
Tutor — Responsive Design
Nadia's been doing frontend development since 2019 and has a particular talent for finding the one screen size that breaks everything. She worked at a fintech startup in Manchester, then went freelance, then joined Veresen part-time in 2023. Her responsive course includes a device testing kit she put together herself — three phones, two tablets, and a Kindle she bought at a car boot sale. The Kindle is surprisingly useful.
teaches: responsive design patterns
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