Rawle was born in Birmingham on 22 July 1955. He lectured and exhibited his work internationally, heading the design team that created the 'Hi-Life' supermarket installation for EXPO 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. Among his astonishing published books are
The Wonder Book of Fun,
Lying Doggo,
Diary of an Amateur Photographer and a reinterpretation of
The Wizard of Oz, which won 2009 Book of the Year and best Illustrated Trade book at the
British Book Design and Production Awards. 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 found footage film collage.
The Card was shortlisted for the 2013
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Book Award. His most recent novel
Overland, designed to be read horizontally, was published in 2018. Graham Rawle taught part-time on the MA Sequential Design/Illustration and Arts and Design by Independent Project courses at The
Faculty of Arts (University of Brighton). He was a visiting professor in Illustration at
Norwich University of the Arts where in 2012 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for services to design. Rawle accepted the role of Visiting Professor of Illustration from Falmouth School of Art at
Falmouth University in 2016. Rawle lived in
London. He died from complications related to cancer treatment on 16 August 2024, at the age of 69. ==Bibliography==