50 Books/50 Covers of 2009 selections

After careful and considered review of more than 800 entries, the 2010 jury of the “AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers” competition selected a group of 100 examples of outstanding book and book cover design produced in 2009.

The jury’s selections will be mounted as a public exhibition at the AIGA National Design Center in New York in December 2010, and will travel across the country to AIGA chapters and student groups during 2011. In addition, selections become part of the AIGA Design Archives, are documented in 365: AIGA Year In Design, and the physical artifacts join the AIGA Design Archives at the Denver Art Museum and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library within Columbia University’s Butler Library.

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AdHouse Books, Richmond, Virginia Book Afrodisiac
Alfred A. Knopf, New York Book Asterios Polyp
Alfred A. Knopf, New York Book The Original of Laura
Amilus Inc., New York Cover American Illustration 28
Aufuldish & Warinner, San Anselmo, California Book URBANbuild
Barbara deWilde design, Montclair, New Jersey Cover Frankenstein
Base, New York Book Edward Gordon Craig
Base, New York Book Jeff Koons Hulk Elvis
Brad Norr Design, Hugo, Minnesota Cover The Hospital for Bad Poets
Brian Chojnowski Studio, Inc., Chicago Cover The Mad Ones
Chip Kidddesign, New York Cover The Original of Laura
Chip Kidddesign, New York Book The Original of Laura
Christopher Brand Design, Sunnyside, New York Cover 21875
Christopher Sergio Design, New York Cover You Will Hardly Know
Chronicle Books, San Francisco Book Pictorial Webster's
Cosac Naify, São Paulo Book Zazie no metro
Daniella Spinat and Daniel Koppich, Seattle Book World of Giving
Eduardo del Fraile, Murcia Book Wine Labels
Evan Gaffney Design, New York Cover Spent
Faber and Faber Ltd, London Cover Chronic City
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York Cover The Beats
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York Cover The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
FBA. - Ferrand, Bicker & Associados, Coimbra Cover Minotauro Books: Crematorio, Contra-natura, Bingo!, Sem Necessidade
Futurepoem books, New York Cover Delinquent
Gabriele Wilson Design, New York Cover The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
Gabriele Wilson Design, New York Book Silhouette: The Art of Shadow
Garrick Gott, New York Book In Numbers
Gingko Press, Berkeley, California Book Emigre No. 70: The Look Back Issue-Celebrating 25 Years in Graphic Design
Glen Cummings and Adam Michaels, New York Book X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X
Grand Central Publishing, New York Cover Procession of the Dead
Green Dragon Office, Los Angeles Book Larry Johnson
Greenblatt-Wexler, Los Angeles Cover Artwork: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
GT, Seoul Book F1984T2008
HarperCollins, Brooklyn, New York Cover The Interrogative Mood
HarperCollins publishers, New York Cover Classic Shorts
HarperCollins publishers, New York Cover Totally Killer
Jerry Kelly LLC, New York Book For Jean Grolier & His Friends
Jerry Kelly LLC, New York Book Manuale Zaphicum
JH Book Design, Chicago Cover Imperfect Oracle
Keenan, Welwyn Garden City Cover All Shall Be Well
Keenan, Welwyn Garden City Cover The Healing of America
Kelly Blair Design, Brooklyn, New York Cover Experimental Geography
Kelly Blair Design, Brooklyn, New York Cover The Blindfold Test
Kelly Blair Design, Brooklyn, New York Book Drunk
Little, Brown and Company, New York Cover Next
Little, Brown and Company, New York Cover The Four Fingers of Death
Little, Brown and Company, New York Cover The Glamour of Grammar
Lumiere Press, Toronto Book Paul Caponigro: On Prior Lane: A Firefly's Light
Mark Batty Publisher, New York Book DIY Album Art: Paper Bags & Office Supplies
Matthew Rezac Graphic Design, Minneapolis Book Riley and his story.
Mevis & van Deursen with Danielle Aubert, Detroit Book MEC,
MTWTF, New York Book What Is Affordable Housing?
orangetango, Montreal Book 42 Recipe-One Belle Excuse
Paprika, Montreal Book Les aventures illustrées de Minette Accentiévitch
Penguin Group UK, London Cover The Craftsman
Pentagram Design, New York Book 2wice: Everybody Dance Now
Pentagram Design, New York Book Irving Penn: Small Trades
Pentagram Design, New York Book William Kentridge: Five Themes
Pentagram Design, New York Cover Speak, Memory
Perkins+Will, Atlanta Book Ideas + Buildings Vol. 02: Perspective-Global Context
Phaidon Press, London Book I Know How to Cook
Picador, New York Cover Time: BIG IDEAS // small books
rhode island school of design, Providence, Rhode Island Book Rethinking the Romans
Rodrigo Corral Design, New York Cover Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust
Rodrigo Corral Design, New York Cover Poems from the Book of Hours
Rodrigo Corral Design, New York Cover Pygmy
Rodrigo Corral Design, New York Cover Seven Nights
Rodrigo Corral Design, New York Cover Siddhartha
Rodrigo Corral Design, New York Cover Snuff
Rodrigo Corral Design, New York Cover The Crack-Up
Rodrigo Corral Design, New York Cover The She-Devil in the Mirror
Rumors, Brooklyn, New York Cover Verso Radical Thinkers Series
Sagmeister Inc., New York Book Columbia Abstract 08/09
Sagmeister Inc., New York Book Oubey Mindkiss
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Book William Kentridge: Five Themes
School of Visual Arts, New York Book SVA Senior Library 09
Scribner, New York, New York Cover Happy
Sidi Vanetti, Locarno Book Fabrizio Giannini. Live without dead time
Simon & Schuster, New York Cover Perforated Heart
Spin, London Book Edmund de Waal: Signs & Wonders
St. Martin's Press, New York Cover Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New York Book The Monsterologist
Studio Blue, Chicago Book Under Control
Tenazas Design, Montclair, New Jersey Book Animal Logic: Richard Barnes
The Map Office, New York Book Tic Toc
The Museum of Modern Art, New York Book Gabriel Orozco
The Museum of Modern Art, New York Cover In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976
The Pushpin Group, New York Book Seymour
Think Studio, New York Book One Million
Triboro Design, Brooklyn, New York Cover The Summer of the Ubume
Underline Studio, Toronto Book Shelagh Keeley
University of Chicago Press, Chicago Cover Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals
University of Chicago Press, Chicago Cover Piracy
Vintage Books, New York Cover Che's Afterlife
Vintage Books, New York Cover Nabokov Series
Visual Arts Press, School of Visual Arts, New York Book SVA Undergraduate Catalog 2010/11
W. W. Norton and Company, New York Cover The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
W. W. Norton and Company, New York Cover Busted
W. W. Norton and Company, New York Cover The Language of Pain
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Book The Quick & the Dead
Werner Design Werks Inc., Saint Paul, Minnesota Book Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types
Why Not Smile, Brooklyn, New York Book 30 Beautiful Everyday Sounds
Yentus & Booher, Brooklyn, New York Cover Inside the Stalin Archives
zago, New York Book D'Apostrophe