Sarah Vernon is a photographer, graphic designer and design consultant who trained at Stockport College and Middlesex University, graduating in 1986. She spent two years working as a freelance photographer's assistant, photographer and graphic designer before working in the magazine world at Emap Publishing and subsequently Shaws Publishing. From 1993 - 1996 she worked at BBC Worldwide as Art Editor for the Clothes Show Magazine.

In 1996 Vernon moved to France, where a change of direction led her to become a ceramicist, selling her own work. She remained in this field until 2010 when she established Sarah Vernon Design, becoming the Creative Director of a business working with individual and corporate clients in France, the UK and USA. Sarah Vernon Design is engaged in branding, art direction, marketing and promotional design.