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The Story of a Murderer.  Runner up design.
The main charactor Jean-Baptiste Grenouille born with no bodily smell of his own, develops an over active Olfactory gland the smell and memory region of the brain... he then goes onto discover the smell of virgins, young women, the ownly way he can capture and own their sent is to murder them... Author - Patrick Suskind/ Penguin Books
A brief breakdown of the design - The most obvious element in the thinking behind the design is the circular repeat pattern of the bare trees with the flies ensembled around it. This is to represent adreneline levels and the effects of blood coursing through viens, but on a deeper level, mechanically, here seen as an abstract idea, developed in artwork,  the elemental reaction of a sense, the sense of smell, at a pheremonal level from the outside drawing in to a cental point inward, in fact to the murderers Olfactory sensory region of the brain. The flies seek death as a way to feed, the background white linen a pointer to virginity. The typography here I feel lending a sense of tension, through font choice. Also at the rear of the book can be seen the human brain and its Olfactory region again with flies in waiting.