Career
His weekly Lost Consonants series appeared in the Weekend Guardian for 15 years (1990-2005). He has produced other regular series which include ‘Lying Doggo’ and ‘Graham Rawle’s Wonder Quiz’ for The Observer and ‘When Words Collide’ and ‘Pardon Mrs Arden’ for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and "Bright Ideas" for The Times. He has lectured and exhibited his work internationally, heading the design team that created the 4,000 sq ft (370 m2) "Hi-Life" supermarket installation for Exposition 2000 in Hanover.
As director of the Niff Institute, in 2001 he created a range of limited edition art pieces that form the Niff Actuals product range.
His critically acclaimed Woman"s World, a novel created entirely from fragments of found text clipped from women"s magazines of the 1950s and "60s, is being made into a feature film. His latest novel The Card, was shortlisted for the 2013 Writers" Guild of Great Britain Book Award.
Graham Rawle teaches part time on the Master of Arts Sequential Design/Illustration and Arts and Design by Independent Project courses at The Faculty of Arts (University of Brighton). He is Visiting Professor in Illustration at Norwich University of the Arts where in 2012 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for services to design.
He lives in London.
