Bovis worked on Melody Maker in 1990 before joining the BBC's now defunct pop magazine, No.1.
In 1991 he was part of the Inside Soap magazine launch team before moving back to the United Kingdom to design the British version.
In 1995 Bovis art directed the Edinburgh Evening News and he won Scottish Newspaper Design of The Year for the Dunblane massacre.
In 1999 he worked with broadcaster Jeff Randall as part of the Sunday Business newspaper launch team and in 2003 joined The Daily Telegraph as executive design editor where he was responsible for some of the newspaper's most noted front pages, including the award-winning Boxing Day edition of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the 2005 front page celebrating London's winning bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
His work on the 7 July 2005 London bombings won The Daily Telegraph the European Newspaper Design Award.