Amelia is a designer and educator who enjoys using research-based skills to inform visual solutions for clients. A close collaborative approach between clients, commissioners and other creative practitioners such as illustrators, chefs, dancers, architects, curators, writers, artists, educators and film directors has always been a fundamental aspect of her methodology, informing and shaping its creative outputs.
Amelia has been an Associate Lecturer in Visual Communication at the RCA since 2016, contributing to the course programme through planning, teaching, and organising workshops and talks, with a special focus on helping students to consider how they can support their unique creative practices in professional contexts.
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Amelia studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and the Royal College of Art after which she co-founded award-winning independent design studio Kerr|Noble with fellow graduate Frith Kerr. Their work for Channel 4, Design Museum, Phaidon & Liberty London among others has been internationally well documented.
Amelia works across all media: creating designs for books, brochures, posters, typefaces and signage to developing narratives within branding and identities for products, websites and exhibitions with a range of corporate and cultural clients such as Victoria & Albert Museum, Serpentine Gallery, Faber & Faber, Selfridges, Film Director Tony Kaye, Artangel, British Council, Design Council, Science Museum & Studio Ilse.
Amelia has given numerous talks on her work, at among others: St. Bride Foundation, the Department of History of Art at the University of Oxford, University of the Arts London and PechaKucha Night in Tokyo. Her work has been widely exhibited, including Rick Poynor’s Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the 60s at the Barbican Art Gallery; A+ : 100 Years of Graphic Communication by Women at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London; 50th Anniversary of the British Road Sign, Design Museum; The European Design Show at the Design Museum and Graphics RCA: Fifty Years & Beyond, at the Royal College of Art.
Amelia is a fellow of the Arts Foundation, has spoken about design on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, participated on many judging panels and is published widely on matters concerning design and creativity, including Phaidon’s newly published Graphic Classics.