DESIGN ON Q – Creative Team Profiles

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Katherine (Kat) Quin Merewether
DESIGN ON Q OWNER/ DESIGNER/ ILLUSTRATOR

Kat Q Merewether is an award winning business woman, a graphic designer and illustrator but above all she is an artist. As well as running Design on Q, she regularly brings publications to life with her captivating illustration work. She also manages to adapt her style to parallel the stories she illustrates, using her vast experience and technique to breathe creativity into each project.

Kat started what is now ‘Design on Q’ in 2002 specializing in illustration and layout design for educational programmes and publications .  She expanded the business in 2006 when she moved her studio to the current location in the heart of Te Awamutu, New Zealand. Kat is hugely passionate about Children’s Book Illustration, with 15 published Picture Books to her name.

Kat is very proud to employ and work with a very talented team of creatives that together make up Design on Q.

To view more of Kats Illustrative work, visit her sister company - Illustrated.

 

Ian Krippner
GRAPHIC DESIGNER / ILLUSTRATOR

Ian has been a Graphic Designer at Design on Q since 2007. Ian is a very talented digital artist, illustrator, graphic designer and is also our office IT go-to guy. If anyone ever has a question relating to our design software or technical issues, Ian is our first port of call. In 2011 Ian won the Waipa Chamber of Commerce Employee of the Month, and later was nominated and received a Certificate of Commendation – Employee of the Year for the 2011 Waipa District Business Awards.

 

Lisa Ryan
INTERMEDIATE GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Lisa joined Design on Q full-time in 2013, after graduating with a Bachelor of Media Arts Majoring in Graphic Design (she also took out the Printhouse Supreme Award in Graphic Design as well as the Printhouse Excellence in Publication Design). She brings a fresh approach, new ideas and is a pleasure to work with. Lisa has very unique and gorgeous typography skills which she regularly puts to use in her projects. We are very lucky to have her talent on the team.