Studio Katie Kerr
Studio Katie Kerr

About

Studio Katie Kerr a graphic design practice that focusses on the creation of publications, identities and printed materials in the broad field of the contemporary cultural sector.

 
 

Enjoy Gallery residency, 2018. Credit Xander Dixon.

Katie Kerr is an award-winning graphic designer producing work in the broad field of the cultural sector. She designs publications and printed matter for publishers, artists and organisations in Aotearoa and abroad.

Self-initiated projects are produced through GLORIA Books, an experimental publishing platform run with Bristol-based photographer Alice Connew. GLORIA functions as a design research facility to explore a multi-disciplinary approach to publishing.

Katie holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury (Ilam) and was previously a lecturer in Communication Design at AUT. She also has a hand in art book distributor Expensive Hobby.

The studio is available for projects of any sort. Get in touch to find out more.

studio(at)katie-kerr.com
@studiokatiekerr

 
 

Words & Press

‘A carefully exclusionary art history: Sight Lines by Kirsty Baker, reviewed’, The Spinoff, 2024

‘Return to the printed form’, Otago Daily Times, 2023

‘Drawn Conclusions: A Graphic Book Review on Past the Tower, Under the Tree’, Metro, 2023

‘Books received: Past the Tower, Under the Tree’, Art New Zealand, 2023

‘Why Publish? Critical Practices in Design and Print’, speaker, Melbourne Art Book Fair, 2023

‘Art Publishing in Aotearoa’, panellist, Melbourne Art Book Fair, 2023

‘Talking Culture: Photobook Friday’, panellist, Auckland Festival of Photography, 2022

‘Press Run’, Metro, 2022

‘On Louise Stevenson’s Someplace Else’, Contemporary HUM, 2021

‘Fresh from the Field: As needed, as possible’, Design Assembly, 2021

‘Katie Kerr and publishing in the margins’, Lynn Freeman for Radio New Zealand, 2021

‘A Scene Is Only As Good As You Make It’, a roundtable discussion on The Pantograph Punch, April 2021

‘In the Margins’, a feature in Metro, Autumn 2021

‘Art publishing and focussing on communities rather than clients’, Storyo, April 2021

‘Review: Dwelling in the Margins’, North & South, March 2021

‘Fresh from the Field: Dwelling in the Margins’, Design Assembly, 2021

‘Review: Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa’, Kiran Dass, Kete, 2021

‘GLORIA’, an interview with The Stack, Monocle, 2020

‘Art, Not Science: Episode 11: Publishing in a Pandemic’, The Physics Room, 2020

‘5 minutes with… Katie Kerr’, Nicole Arnett Phillips, Design Assembly, 2019

‘A study of three levels at the Auckland Central Library’, published in In Common (Pipi Press, 2019).

‘Smells like Fresh Print: Can I Borrow Your Spoon?’, Design Assembly, 2019

‘PANZ: Inhouse Design and Katie Kerr win big in this year's 2019 Book Design Awards’, Typeroom, 2019

‘Strange Goods: Books & Ephemera’, an interview with bFM, 2019

‘Alternative Routes: An Interview with Katie Kerr’, Lana Lopesi for Design Assembly, 2018

‘The value of A Working Week’, Chloe Geoghegan for Enjoy Contemporary Artspace, 2018

‘Dwelling in the Margins: Katie Kerr reflects on A Working Week’, for Enjoy Contemporary Artspace, 2018

‘Gemma Walsh and Katie Kerr, a conversation’, for GLORIA, 2018

‘A trip to the Bauhaus: Reflecting on a century of women in design’, for Designers Speak (Up), 2018

Parallel Lines of Enquiry, 2018 

‘Sexier in Print: GLORIA and hard press’, The Pantograph Punch, 2017

‘Neither here or there: Katie Kerr’, The Big Idea, 2017