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Rooted: An Australian History of Bad Language
  • Longlisted

Designed by
Peter Long
Category
Best Designed Non-Fiction Book
Year
2021
Publisher
NewSouth Publishing

About the Designer

Peter has been designing books for more than fifteen years, and until recently was Senior Designer at Black Inc.Books and the Art Director of The Monthly magazine. Before books he designed mostly for stage and film. He is also a filmmaker; the short film A Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow, which he wrote and directed, won the Silver Lion for the best short film at the Venice Film Festival.  …

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Design Rationale

Rooted is about ‘bad language’, and I wanted to depict the (probably confected) prim horror of the respectable middle class of the fifties and sixties to obscenity and profanity.

Details
Dimensions
153 x 234 mm
No. pages
320
Credits
Internal Design
Jo Pajor-Markus
Typesetting
Jo Pajor-Markus
Printing
Griffin Press
Author
Amanda Laugesen