Artist Info
Kate Hepburn
Graphic Design Central School of Art & Design 1966-1969
Royal College of Art 1972
Together with Sally Doust, Kate Hepburn began work as the original design team for second-wave feminist women's magazine Spare Rib (1972-1973)
Other documented work includes art direction and design of the first two Monty Python books, having previously worked on Python animations.
Her subsequent design work centred on editorial design, from magazines such as the ecological Vole, (1977-80) founded by journalist Richard Boston and Python’s Terry Jones, Quarto, a literary title and film mag Vertigo.
She worked in-house at Wolff Olins for several years, and was involved in the rock’n’roll and entertainment industry, with design for promoters Marshall Arts (Tina Turner, Bryan Adams, Joan Baez), Pink Floyd, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Rolling Stones merchandise and Mark Fisher’s huge stadium rock stage projects
In 1981 she won a D&AD award for her posters promoting Jean Michel Jarre's tour of China.