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Design Category
Book design, 1997
Design firm
Evan Gaffney Graphic Design (New York, New York)
Collection
(1998) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1997
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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.