Best Emerging Designer Award — Kate Rogers
25.02.2007Australian Creative 2007 Hotshop Awards
Best Emerging Designer of the Year
Kate Rogers, GollingsPidgeon
CREATIVE received many impressive entries to its Hotshop Award for ‘Best Emerging Designer’, so choosing only one winner was almost impossible. After much deliberation, the judges finally settled on Kate Rogers, a talented young designer at GollingsPidgeon in Melbourne.
In 2006, Rogers was the recipient of several AGDA awards, including a Judges Choice award, an Effectiveness award, two distinctions and two finalists. As the lead designer for the re-opening of Heide Museum of Modern Art, Rogers was responsible for compiling catalogues, signage, invitations, posters and brochures promoting the museum’s exhibitions in 2006. Throughout this work, Rogers displays an ability to produce stylish layouts that are consistently unique and inventive. She balances a knack for experimentation with an understanding of editorial design, so her layouts are fresh without being intimidating or illegible.
She combines striking imagery with cut-out typography and shapes, which adds a tactility to the brochure covers. “For me, design is a continual process of learning, understanding and interpreting. With each project I look to explore possibilities and further my knowledge and craft,” says Rogers. “I understand the commercial nature of the work that I do, and work with my fellow staff, clients and suppliers to achieve the best possible outcomes. Most of all I design because of the enjoyment that it brings me.”
