Dr Jenny Grigg is an Australian graphic designer and lecturer in the School of Design at RMIT University. Her professional career includes positions such as Art Director at Rolling Stone Magazine Australia, MTV Australia, and Senior Designer at Pentagram in London. Continually active in book design, Jenny has designed for Faber and Faber, Granta Books, Peter Carey, Paul Auster and Eleanor Catton and is currently the art director for Giramondo Publishing. Her achievements in the field have been recognised by many design awards, a 2011 State Library Victoria Creative Fellowship, listing in Who’s Who of Australian Women and induction into the Design Institute of Australia’s Hall of Fame in 2020. She researches design history and material literacy in graphic design ideation.
Academic positions
- Lecturer RMIT University 2017 –
- Sessional teaching RMIT University 2016
- Sessional teaching Monash University 2013 – 2016
Key publishing commissions
- Publication designer, Giramondo, 2020 –
- Series of 8 cover designs for Peter Carey backlist UQP Australia
http://www.jennygrigg.com/book_covers1.html
- The Luminaries, Elanor Catton, Granta Portobello Books, 2011 (Booker Prize Winner 2011)
- Series of 10 Ernest Hemingway covers, Lindhardt og Ringhof Copenhagen
- Series of 10 cover designs for Peter Carey backlist Random House Australia
Key corporate commissions
- Visual Identity; Wine label design Wolf Blass, Fosters Brewers, Cato Purnell Partners
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Corprate Identity; agIdeas 2011. International Design, Conference Cato Purnell Partners
- Visual Identity; for chain of luxury hotels in Argentina, Cato Purnell Partners
- Corporate Identity; University of Queensland Press
In-house design contracts
- Contract designer Pentagram Design, London 2001
- Kontrapunkt design studio, Copenhagen 2007
- Senior Designer Gallery of Modern Art GOMA + Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane, 2008
In-house positions
- Creative Director Harper Collins Publishing 2003–2004
- Art Director HQ Magazine 1998–2000
- Art Director MTV Australia 1997–1998
- Art Director Rolling Stone Magazine Australia 1993–1996
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, passed with classification of R1, nominated for RMIT Research Excellence Award 2019, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT, 2014-2018
- Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication University of Technology Sydney Australia 1986–1990
Industry Recognition
- Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame Inductee, 2020
- Hall of Fame committee member, Australian Graphic Design Association, 2020 -
- Speaker agIdeas International Design Conference 2012, MCEC, Melbourne Australia
- Creative Fellow State Library Victoria 2011
- Who’s Who of Australian Women Listed from 2010
- Nominated for Alliance Graphique Internationale, Zurich by Vince Frost of *Frost Design Sydney
Design awards Australia
- Nominated: Best Designed ‘Whole Book’ Australian Graphic Designers Association, A Body of Water, Beverley Farmer, Giramondo Publishers 2019
- Nominated: Best Designed ‘Whole Book’ Australian Graphic Designers Association, PhD publication: Material literacy; the significance of materials in graphic design ideation 2019
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Winner; Best Design Independent Book, PhD publication: Material literacy; the significance of materials in graphic design ideation. Self published ABDA 2019
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Shortlisted; Best Design Non-fiction Book ABDA You Could do something amazing with your life you are Raoul Moat, Scribe Publications 2017
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Shortlisted; Best Designed Literary Fiction Book ABDA
Tommy Wieringa Series Design, Scribe Publications 2017
- Shortlisted; Best Designed Illustrated Non-Fiction Book ABDA Over The Top, Scribe Publications, 2015
- Finalist; AGDA Design Awards, Tommy Wieringa, These are the Names, Scribe Publications, 2014
- Winner; ABDA Best Designed Literary Fiction Book, Australian Book Design Awards, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, (Booker Prize Wiiner 2013) Allen & Unwin
- Shortlisted; Best Designed Non Fiction Book, Meanjin Quarterly, MUP, 2012
- Winner; APA Best Designed Non Fiction Book Pier 9 Pocket History Series Murdoch Books, 2011
- Winner; APA Best Designed Non Fiction Book Leave To Remain Abbas Elzein UQP, 2010
- Winner; APA Best Designed Non Fiction Cover The Wayward Tourist Mark Twain MUP, 2007
- Winner; APA Best Designed Fiction Cover (joint) Ghost Tide YoYo HCP, 2006
- Winner; APA Best Designed Book of the Year My Life As A Fake Peter Carey Random House, 2004
- Winner; APA Best Designed Young Adult Book The Diviner’s Son Gary Crew Pan Macmillan, 2002
- Winner; APA Best Designed Children’s Cover The Diviner’s Son Gary Crew Pan Macmillan, 2002
- Winner; APA Young Designer of the Year, 2002
- Winner; APA Best Cover Adult Literary Fiction Peter Carey Backlist UQP, 2002
- Winner; APA Best Designed Cover, Peter Carey Backlist UQP, 2002
- Winner; APA Young Designer of the Year, 1996
Design awards international
- Shortlisted; Best Book Design From All Over The World 2008 Stiftung Buchkunst, Franfurt & Leipzig, The Wayward Tourist by Mark Twain for MUP, 2008
Media
- The Age, ‘Shape’ Ray Edgar 2013
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/shape-designs-for-life-20131219-2zo15.html
- Desktop Magazine 2013 Interview by Heath Killen
https://desktopmag.com.au/features/interview-jenny-grigg/#.WOcO-xKGMck
- Page Magazine; Berlin 2010
- Eighty Years of Book Cover Design; Faber and Faber London 2009
- The World of the Book; State Library Victoria 2008
- Fully Booked; International Cover Design Die Gestalten Forlag, Berlin 2008
- Papercraft; Die Gestalten Forlag, Berlin 2008
- Eye Magazine; Australian Special Issue Issue 26, Vol 12, 2002
- Eye Magazine; Cover Feature Autumn Issue 2007 Do it Again Jenny Grigg’s designs for author Peter Carey
- Communication Arts; USA Award of Excellence Illustration Annual Art Director HQ Magazine 1999
- Communication Arts; Award of Excellence Photography Annual Art Director HQ Magazine 1999
- Communication Arts; Award of Excellence Photography Annual Art Director HQ Magazine 1998
- Three categories Australian Writers & Art Directors (AWARD) Annual Rolling Stone Magazine 1998
Exhibition of creative works
- State Library Victoria 2016-2017, 2019
The Mirror of the World, exhibition of original artwork of the cover design for Peter Carey’s novel True History of the Kelly Gang
- National Gallery of Victoria 2013
Melbourne Now, Then Posters. Poster design collaboration with Brent Harris. Curated by Warren Taylor
- Gateways International book cover design exhibition, Porto, Portugal 2008
- Powerhouse Museum Sydney
Cover Strory: 60 years of Australian book design, 14 May–30 November 2012
Curated by Anne-Marie Van de Ven.
Research Publications
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University of Michigan Publishing, AIGA Design educators Community
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic
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Conference publication: How paper figures in the history of design
International Conference of Design History and Studies, ICDHS 10+, 2018
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RMIT Design Hub and Nationanl Gallery of Victoria exhibition Superstructure, Project Gallery 2018
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Article published in exhibition publication: Material Literacy
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Editorial feature: A history of dissent – part two, Desktop Magazine, March 20, 2013
Pay the Rent, You’re on Aboriginal Land (Artist: Marie McMahon, 1981)
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https://desktopmag.com.au/features/a-history-of-dissent-part-two/#.WQubfbyGMck
