Breaking Point
Kehrer

CREATIVE DIRECTION — CALEB CAIN MARCUS
PUBLISHER — KEHRER
ARTIST —ROBIN DAHLBERG
WRITER — SARA C. APPLEBY 
BOOK PHOTOS — STEVEN PANECCASIO

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The Most Beautiful German Book, Longlist
Photo Espana, Shortlist

Breaking Point: When the Criminal Justice System Fails explores why innocent people confess to crimes they did not commit. 

We designed the cover as a series of breaking points, small laser cut holes that form the typography and show glimpses of an integration still.

 False confessions are one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions in the United States. Research shows that police coercive interrogation methods are often to blame. 

The interior redacted interrogation text compresses with every page to give a sense of the walls closing in as the people who falsely confessed felt.