Supergraphics with Morag Myerscough

It’s no surprise that her fashion sense has the eclectic knob turned to 11, because her projects have colour turned to at least 15. This London-born designer has been working for 30 years now and fully embodies the Supergraphic approach. With an extensive portfolio including award-winning wayfinding, exhibitions, installations, pavilions, and her work appears in publications worldwide.

Art and design are in her blood and was supported by her Textiles Designer mother and Musician father to attend The Royal College in downtown London. Her career since graduation has moved through working with friend Jane Chipchase and then starting her own studio. Her still operating studio is flexible in size of staff to incorporate the amount of work they undertake.

Morag’s approach is rooted in an “anything goes” approach and tries to approach every project with an open mind. This demeanour has allowed for easeful work with a wide variety of clients and collaboration on a variety of projects.

Bold colours and flat shapes arranged across huge spans of interiors and exteriors, there is nowhere that Morag sets her eyes on that she can’t find a way to cleverly throw a ton of colour on it. While a lot of the graphics bring what would be stark and unadorned surfaces to life, I find it quite jarring and a bit unnerving in the digital space though. Specifically the photographs of her work and her website. The website almost hurts to look at because it is so bright, and the editing on some of the photos give an eerie quality of 3D representation and not actually a photo of a physical installation.

What I do applaud the most is the use of every dimension possible in a space, and not just the flat surfaces that are constructed or are pre-existing. She has added large panels of colour from the ceilings or working with lighting designers and architects to play with the physical building’s design.