Catherine Griffiths is an independent designer and typographer who currently lives and works in Auckland and occasionally Paris. Her work is a versatile mix of visual communication design, self-published artist books, typography installations in public and private spaces, and writing memoir-style, on design.
To record the current landscape of women in design and give visibility to the unsung diversity of Aotearoa design is necessary and urgent.
Catherine Griffiths
She studied Visual Communication Design at Wellington Polytechnic during the mid-80s, set up a studio space with two other graduates, then worked several years in London. In 2002, Catherine won New Zealand’s top graphic design award for the Wellington Writers Walk concrete text sculptures. She is active in the international design community and has exhibited in New Zealand, Chile, France, USA, China and Korea.
Catherine Griffiths