Sonny DhamuSonny Dhamu is art director at Inside Housing
My Inside Housing front covers of the year
Design and photography help bring our news and features to life. Here, our award-winning art director Sonny Dhamu chooses his favourite Inside Housing magazine front covers of 2019
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Sonny DhamuSonny Dhamu is art director at Inside Housing
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Again and again and again
Another dangerous fire called for a powerful message. It was a risk to use a white page because of the thin paper stock but it worked and had a big impact. This cover was shortlisted for an award.
100 years of council housing
To present our 100 years of council housing coverage, we decided on a very simple idea of having the logo on the front. I wanted a vintage feel so I chose to put the entire cover in a sepia effect.
The Grenfell Inquiry report
I enjoy creating a full-bleed cover, and the Grenfell Inquiry report gave me the opportunity to do so. A great picture did most of the work and I was fortunate enough to get away with the experimental type over the masthead.
Waking watch
This cover offered something different to our normal style of a news front. Reportage photography captured the plight of residents in a tower block where residents are on 24-hour watch because of dangerous cladding on their building.