For 5 years, between 1959 and 1964 Ken Dunn trained as an Industrial Designer and then took a PGCE, Post Graduate Certificate in Education - a one year teacher training course. Not wanting to enter education then he worked in Local Government and Museums as a Graphic and Exhibition Designer and after that for several years as a freelance designer. In 1983 he entered secondary education and eventually retired in 2005. He and his wife Wendy now live in Somerset.