Eclectic – and sometimes eccentric.
Morag Myerscough has produced an eclectic – and sometimes eccentric – body of work that is frequently unclassifiable but always offers a high level of engagement. She combines formal graphic design methodologies (typography, image making, colour theory) with highly individualist craft skills.” Extract: Adrian Shaughnessy – Book: Supergraphics – Transforming Space: Unit 02 – Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy Over the years Morag has concentrated on working way beyond the restrictions of 2-D and creates and curates many different types of work including a train as a café, numerous exhibitions, interpreting buildings plus running her own gallery and shop ‘her house’. Currently designing the permanent exhibition which will be in the New Design Museum, London. Collaboratively working with Cartlidge Levene on the wayfinding for the new extension at the Tate Modern, architects Herzog and De Meuron. Working on several social design projects, in hospitals and youth centres. Recently completed, working in a team with Zynga in San Francisco, on the spatial design of their new headquarters. Been out on the street with a public art installation for the Experimenta Expo in Lisbon working with supergroup collaborator Luke Morgan. Plus much more... Myerscough believes that wayfinding is not purely about a series of signs but as much about bringing out the narrative in the built environment, enhancing the physical experience, it is very important how people feel when they move through a space, if they can move easily almost unconsciously and if you can make them smile and feel happy that is one of the best outcomes. Morag studied at St Martin’s and the Royal College of Art. Starting Studio Myerscough in 1993.
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