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You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat]
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Designed by
Jenny Grigg
Category
Best Designed Non-Fiction Book
Year
2017
Publisher
Scribe Publications

About the Designer

Jenny Grigg is an award winning Australian graphic designer who has worked in Sydney, London, Copenhagen and Melbourne. She has a PhD from RMIT University.

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Design Rationale

Raoul Moat was the subject of a major police operation after murdering three people. The cover reflects both Hankinson’s approach to the subject and the tabloid news coverage that the case received. The typography presenting the book’s title is designed in red, upper case, sans serif italics to reference sensationalist, newspaper reporting and the image is an actual portrait of Moat as a child. The type, brutally juxtaposed against Moat’s innocent boyhood face poses the question, ‘what went wrong?’. The design is intentionally stark to reflect the subject as well as the author’s contemporary and unconventional approach to non-fiction literature.

Details
Dimensions
148 x 210 mm
No. pages
224
Special finishes
CMYK + 1 PMS (485U) on uncoated stock
Credits
Internal Design
Jenny Grigg, Jenny Grigg
Typesetting
Jenny Grigg
Printing
CPI Group
Author
Andrew Hankinson