I have now finished reading What a Carve Up, the book to be redesigned for the Penguin Design Award this year. My brain still aches a little from reading it (it provided much more of a challenge than my usual chick lit) but it is definitely worth it. Despite it being a fiction based around politics in the 90's, much of the satire and the story still applies to the present day, which is a frighteningly bleak prospect since it isn't exactly a positive story.
These are the main ideas/themes/motifs etc that I have picked up and will begin to work with in coming up with a concept for the redesign.
A man in the shadows of the Winshaws
A peephole/eyes in the paintings
Interlinked stories
A tangled web
The film
Conspiracy theories
Aircrafts/WW2
Deceit
The knitting needles
Manuscript
Irony/twists and turns
A grand narrative brought together
Dark humour
Macabre
Creepy mansion
Butler
Wealth/greed
The outsider who becomes an insider
Nightmare family
Film/video recorders
The Moors/London/Germany/Iraq
Paintings
The will
Cluedo
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