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Kate Moross : What is your earliest memory of drawing ? Do you ever have digital fatigue and feel the need
Art + Bikes with The to get away from the screen ?
Ride Journal So many ! I used to like drawing circuses a lot and
I think there’s a generation of people who do feel
underwater scenes. But my absolute favourite thing
really overwhelmed when constantly online or in
to do was redraw my books, things like the BFG. I
“I think style goes in used to fold paper and staple it and then I would front of a screen. I don’t find that I need to get away
and out of fashion. remember the story and draw it.I wrote one about from the screen, its actually a comfort, which sounds
really fucked up !
Unless you were always a kid eating an avocado once and I just smudged
evolving, after a few avocado all over the paper. I must have been really
quite young when I did that. Hopefully early writing
years, maybe ten years, stage as my writing went down the page diagonally !
you wouldn’t have any
further work.

“You don’t need

things to make
One of the things that really Studio Moross :
stands out is how much of a Cult hair, 2017. your career
multi disciplinarian you are. Do
you try to maintain a sense of happen, you
style across your work?
just need to
I think it depends. Illustration is
quite an old fashioned graphic
work hard and
art in the sense that the way you
work is quite straight forward, in
be out there
the commercial world anyway.
You receive a scamp by the ad
and you don’t
agency, you do your own version,
you send it back to them, you
revise it until they love it, and need luck.”
then you move on to the next
project.

On Music. What is the Studio Moross :
soundtrack to your life so far ? Nixtape
The Spice Girls were definitely
the sound track to my youth, but
I think I would say something like As a teenager you designed profile pages for My Dad was the ‘tech’ parent and my Mum was
Stevie Wonder because I love bands on My Space in the early days of social the ‘craft’ one so it was a really good combination
the music and I love him and I media. Do you think timing had it’s part to play in and my brothers were both really into computer
love his album artwork. I loved how your career launched? games. I knew how to mess about with code. At
everything about Songs In The that time a lot of people couldn’t code so it was an
I think everyone is around at the birth of something
Key Of Life era so I think that is that they can utilise to enhance what they do and I opportunity, not to code as I was never into that,
something that has stuck with “I think a lot of what do definitely think being a very early adopter of the but an opportunity for me to design. So I used the
my work is about is internet and computers had a huge impact on me. I
me since I was a little kid. I think leverage of the fact that I could code to create
people don’t always necessarily happiness” don’t necessarily think it was the social media aspect designs. For me it was never about doing web
incorporate mood and feeling that helped me, I had to be able to do something first stuff. It was always about creating visuals to go on
into their work consciously but in order to put it out there online. the web.
that is something that I try to do.