Blog6:
Kate Moross (graphic designer and illustrator featured in several magazines and
won the Creative Future Award in 2007).
Interview
with Kate Moross: http://think-work-play.com/kate-moross-2/
Kate is an inspiring designer because she exhibits her
uniqueness through her personality, attire, and of course her artwork. She
would definitely be placed into the modern artist category. Her style consists
of very bright single tone colors because it would seem that she admires high
contrast. Some of her work could also be considered "groovy" because
the colors seem like they could have dawned from the 70s. There also seems to
be theme going on with a lot of her pieces that demonstrates thick obvious
lines that sway back and forth creating a large amount of movement. Her shapes
appear to be evolving out of one another creating a different shape or subject
out of it. For example, her design of a diamond consists of single tone colors
that exhibit high contrast. Kate's overlapping shapes also add a sense of depth
without variation in tones. Her example of a diamond appears to have large
swirls flowing out of the top of it further transforming into small shapes and
designs. I can see that she enjoys creating an eye flow for the audience which
draws their attention to the largest shapes, leading to the smaller intricate
ones. These types of art techniques are very successful when creating art
because the viewer needs to appreciate the "big picture" or in other
words the overall art piece from far away as well as appreciate the miniature
details that actually act as rewards for the consumer's eye because it's those
little details that really add to any type of visual art. Kate was interviewed
about her work life as well as obtaining a sense of her personality. Kate is an
easygoing and free spirited person who exhibits herself very visually through
her appearance and through her creations. Even her shirt had bright colors that
contrasted one another. She has a fascination of triangles, which are actually
very popular in everyday life whether it be in construction or just plain
appearance. Her entire room even screamed color and contrast with its white
walls and splashes of bright color. Her room actually embodies what I would
think a modern graphic design artist would have with all of the pieces of
artwork pinned to the wall with color and art tools located everywhere around
the room. It appears to be an artist's dream room which is comfy, colorful, and
of course well designed. Instead of knocking out all of her projects at once,
she stated that she spreads them out all at once and gives each one attention.
This method of working on multiple art projects is actually successful in a lot
of art situations because it allows the artists to take visual "breaks"
which can allow them to see flaws in their work that they would not have seen
before. Seeing this interview with Kate was very enjoyable because I got to
experience the feeling of being a well-known graphic designer by venturing into
the creation station of her art.
