The last 5 years of Mark's training was at Bill Smith Studio, renown for music industry packaging. There he worked on music projects for EMI, Virgin, BMG, Factory, Mute, including Mike Oldfield, Kate Bush, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, King Crimson and Inspiral Carpets. He produced an award-winning calendar and nurtured projects for The Royal Shakespeare Company.

Always the innovator, Mark was an early adopter of computers. As far back as 1990 at Bill Smith Studio, where traditional typography & compositing made multi-layered graphics expensive and time consuming. Mark pushed through the computerisation of Bill's studio.