The Monkey Suit

Evan Gaffney Graphic Design1997

AIGA, the professional association for design
New York, NY, United States

Discipline: Book design
Format: Book cover
Design firm: Evan Gaffney Graphic Design
Art director: Hall Smyth
Photographer: Matthew Antrobus
Author: David Dante Troutt
Typefaces: Franklin Gothic, Fournier, Bureau Grotesque
Publisher/client: The New Press

The Monkey Suit is a collection of fictionalized retellings of famous legal cases involving African Americans. Stories of senseless racism are told with the gentle, impressionistic tone of an oral history. My aim was to create something both elegant and shocking—to express the charm of the writing as well as the rage behind it.

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Title: The Monkey Suit
Creator: Evan Gaffney Graphic Design
Date Created: 1997
Location Created: New York, New York
Type: Book cover
Publisher: The New Press
Original Source: AIGA Design Archives. Collection: 50 Books/50 Covers of 1997
Rights: This image was published with permission in the AIGA Design Archives.

AIGA, the professional association for design

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