KATE MORROSS

http://www.katemoross.com/

No Fly Posters
No Fly Posters A1 Quad Poster
Manchester

UPCOMING

OFFF Barcelona, May 2014
Giornata ticinese della tipografia Lugano November 2014

PAST

Innocent 'Inspires' London October 2013
We Love Graphic Design Copenhagen October 2013
Here It's Nice That London June 2013
TYPO Berlin 'Touch' May 2013
OFFSET Festival Dublin 2013
After School Club II 2013 Offenbach, Germany 2013
IKON Gallery Design & Art Symposium 2012
TYPO London 'Social' 2012
Beauty in Making It's Nice That 2012
Music x The Graphic Arts Panel Discussion Pick Me Up 2012
Apple Store Regent Street Launch of Granimator App
Glug LDN Hosted by UsTwo 2011
D&AD Petcha Kutcha 2011
Design 4 Music Curated by Eye Magazine 2010
What Matters Symposium Los Angeles 2010
D&AD Seminar London 2010
Semi-permanent New Zealand 2009
Design Blast HFG Karlsruhe 2009
PSFK Good Ideas Salon 'Good Idea’s In Design' Panel 2009
She Says 'Entrepreneurship' 2009
It's Pop It's Art Curated by Airside 2008
Creative Futures Awards Creative Review 2008
Nike Screen Printing Day @ 1948 Curated by It's Nice That / 2009
Protein Forum 2008

VISITING LECTURES

Brighton University 2012
South Downs College 2012
Camberwell College of Art 2012

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

YCN Professional Awards Studio Moross Design Catagory 2013
ADC Young Guns Award Class of YGX 2012
The Hospital 100 Nominee in association with Time Out 2012
Creative Future Award, Creative Review & Sony 2007
NME Future 50, Number 18 In the future of the Music

JUDGING

Music Video Awards 2013
D&AD Graphic Design Category 2012
D&AD Student Awards 2010
Swatch MTV Playground 2010
Music Video Awards 2011
Grafik Design Awards 2010
Output Award International 2010

SELECTED CLIENTS

Ray-Ban, Converse, Vogue, Kiehl's, Nike, (RED), Adidas, Nokia, Samsung, The Guardian, Ralph Lauren, Virgin, Vice Magazine, Cadbury, Topshop, Whitechapel Gallery, Young Turks, Island Records, Glastonbury Festival, Sony, Magnolia Pictures, Fact Magazine, Umbro, and Ford.

SELECTED PRESS

Sunday Times Style,Time Out, Creative Review, Eye Magazine, Grafik, Vogue, Computer Arts, Groove, Fact, , Pro Design, Nylon, The NME, It's Nice That, 1948, Design Week, Tate Online, Don't Panic, Dazed & Confused, The New Order, Blu.

SELECTED BOOKS

Graphic 10, Los Logos 4,5 & 6, YCN 0708, The Art Of British Rock, Graphic 10, Tees The Art of the T-shirt, Visible Signs by David Crow, Create GB, Business Cards 2, Curly 2008, Bastardised.

Kate Moross is a London-based creative who as an illustrator is best known for her work with three sided shapes, typography and music. Kate started in flyer design for East London parties, the super cool Young Turks and Queens of Noize were just some of the leading events organisers to notice her talents in creating unique, stand out imagery in her early career. It wasn’t long before she established herself as one of the illustrators to work with. Work with Cadburys,Topshop and Samsung has firmly routed the triangle-loving Kate as one of today’s most sought-after creatives. Now moving into moving image and film, Katehas just finished the latest music video for the electronic duo Simian Mobile Disco.




When Think-Work-Play caught up with Kate about her creative process, she spoke of her love for The Queen and the late Queen Mother’s fashion sense, her cravings for old school penny sweets, as well as being asked to once design a bong for an American company – she turned it down though. Her studio in Central London gave us a peek into the multi-coloured world of Kate, a place whereJoseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat would even feel beige.

The coloured pencils you see in the video were some collection, literally every colour was accounted for, Kate does not do shades! We asked Kate to give us three colours that represented her, she chose Banana Yellow, Mint Green andCoral Pink – what would yours be? Kate is a modern day creative with a laid-back approach to design, she layers out her projects all in one go – there is no strict to do list here.

A keen hoarder, Kate’s trips across the globe means her studio is a veritable Aladdin’s cave of artifacts, both kitsch and cool. Catching our eyes as we interview her is an Oscars ornament, a giant Crayola pen, a packet of Fizz Wizzand a children’s-style mobile hanging from the ceiling with Kate’s triangles and small tree design.Apparently it was born out of an old work experience girl getting the triangles cut twice as big as they should have been, they were meant to be bracelets – now they would only fit Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wrists.

An innovator in typography and design, Kate is sure to see her star rise over the next year as she leads telephone giant, Samsung’s London 2012 offering. Katehas exclusively designed the brand’s logo for the London 2012 Olympics, so we thought we would set her a challenge to redesign the Think-Work-Play logo. Amazingly, she was able to do it in under three minutes; showing the speed of her creative thought process from ideation to creation – it was a sight to behold and will feature on the site very soon, keep your eyes peeled.

Kate has recently launched an online shop where you can get your hands on Kate’s clothes designs, necklaces, prints and a whole lot more. The collection features her iconic triangle images, as well as a host of great designs that she has done for the likes of La Roux and Simian. We definitely want the keyring…