50 Books/50 Covers 2008 selections

After careful and considered review of more than 900 entries, the 2008 jury of the “AIGA 50 books/50 Covers” competition selected a group of 91 examples of outstanding book and book cover design produced in 2008.

The jury’s selections will be mounted as a public exhibition during the “Make/Think: AIGA Design Conference” in October 2009 and at the AIGA National Design Center in New York in December 2009, and will travel across the country to AIGA chapters and student groups during 2010. 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 at Columbia University.

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Cover Literature and nonfiction Mucca Design Corp., New York, NY '68
Cover Literature and nonfiction Chip Kidddesign, New York, NY A Wolf At The Table
Cover Literature and nonfiction Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY Beat the Reaper
Cover Literature and nonfiction Salamander Hill Design, Elgin, QC Canadian Water Politics
Cover Literature and nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf/Vertical Press, New York, NY Censoring
Cover Literature and nonfiction Office of Paul Sahre, New York, NY Chuck Klosterman IV
Cover Literature and nonfiction REX Design, Sao Paulo Classicos Saraiva book collection
Cover Reference books Sagmeister Inc., Brooklyn, NY Columbia Abstract 07/08
Cover Literature and nonfiction Hachette Book Group, New York, NY Columbine
Cover Literature and nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf/Vertical Press, New York, NY Dororo
Cover Literature and nonfiction Office of Paul Sahre, New York, NY Downtown Owl
Cover Literature and nonfiction HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY Epilogue
Cover Literature and nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf/Vertical Press, New York, NY Esther's Inheritance
Cover Image-driven books pulp, ink., Brooklyn, NY Franz West: To Build A House You Start With The Roof
Cover Literature and nonfiction Metalmother, Brooklyn, NY I Love Dollars
Cover Literature and nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf/Vertical Press, New York, NY Le Corbusier
Cover Literature and nonfiction de Vicq design, New York, NY Little Bee
Cover Literature and nonfiction Barbara deWilde design, Montclair, NJ Love Today
Cover Literature and nonfiction Vintage Books, New York, NY Makioka Sisters
Cover Literature and nonfiction McSweeney's, San Francisco, CA Maps and Legends
Cover Literature and nonfiction Barbara deWilde design, Montclair, NJ Milk
Cover Literature and nonfiction Office of Paul Sahre, New York, NY Night of the Gun
Cover Literature and nonfiction Simon & Schuster, New York, NY No One Belongs Here More Than You
Cover Limited-edition and fine-press books Ena Cardenal de la Nuez, Madrid NY MOTION 1.0
Cover Literature and nonfiction University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL Obsession
Cover Children's books Mucca Design, New York, NY Oliver Twist, Il Cucciolo, Il Richiamo de la Foresta- BUR Ragazzi series
Cover Literature and nonfiction Penguin Books, New York, NY On the Road Original Scroll
Cover Literature and nonfiction Vintage Books, New York, NY Samedi The Deafness
Cover Literature and nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY Security
Cover Literature and nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY The Age of Entanglement
Cover Literature and nonfiction Vintage Books, New York, NY The Book of Dead Philosophers
Cover Literature and nonfiction Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
Cover Literature and nonfiction Chip Kidddesign, New York, NY The Learners
Cover Literature and nonfiction Hachette Book Group, New York, NY The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
Cover Literature and nonfiction Gray318, Bishops Stortford The Mayor's Tongue
Cover Literature and nonfiction Mother Design, New York, NY The Silver Linings Playbook
Cover Literature and nonfiction Edel Rodriguez Studio, Mount Tabor, NJ Things Fall Apart
Cover Literature and nonfiction Timothy Goodman, New York, NY Translucent Tree
Cover Literature and nonfiction Vintage Books, New York, NY Way Through Doors
Cover Literature and nonfiction Evan Gaffney Design, New York, NY Wishful Drinking
Cover Literature and nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf/Vertical Press, New York, NY Zen and Now
Book Literature and nonfiction Spin, London 25 x 4: Channel 4 at 25
Book Image-driven books Haunch of Venison, London Adam Pendleton: EL T D K
Book Image-driven books Getty Publications, Los Angeles, CA Alan Kaprow Art as Life
Book Literature and nonfiction McSweeney's, San Francisco, CA All Known Metal Bands
Book Image-driven books Project Projects, New York, NY Brooklyn Modern
Book Image-driven books San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Brought to Light Exhibition Catalogue
Book Image-driven books Getty Publications, Los Angeles, CA California Video: Artists and Histories
Book Literature and nonfiction MIT Press, Cambridge, MA Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space
Book Literature and nonfiction Varela & Kimura, Mexico City Central de Arquitectura
Book Instructional books and textbooks Mucca Design Corp., New York, NY Chanterelle - The Story and Recipes of a Restaurant Classic
Book Image-driven books The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
Book Image-driven books Matsumoto Incorporated, New York, NY COLOR CHART: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
Book Image-driven books The Office of Gilbert Li, Toronto, ON Derek Sullivan
Book Image-driven books The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Design and the Elastic Mind
Book Reference books Offices of Anne Burdick, Pasadena, CA Fackel Schimpfwörterbuch
Book Image-driven books Cosac Naify, São Paulo Fundaçao Ibere Camargo - Alvaro Siza
Book Image-driven books The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
Book Image-driven books Base Design, New York, NY It's not only Rock'n'Roll, Baby
Book Literature and nonfiction Les Allusifs, Montreal, NY Je voudrais pas crever
Book Image-driven books Studio Blue, Chicago, IL Krannert Art Museum: Selected Works
Book Children's books Chronicle Books, Chicago, CA L is for Lollygag
Book Image-driven books Triboro Design, Brooklyn, NY Leigh Ledare: Pretend You're Actually Alive
Book Image-driven books Office of Paul Sahre, New York, NY Leisurama Now: The Beach House for Everyone, 1964-
Book Image-driven books Studio Blue, Chicago, IL Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City
Book Image-driven books National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"
Book Image-driven books Green Dragon Office, Los Angeles, CA Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective
Book Literature and nonfiction McSweeney's, San Francisco, CA McSweeney's Issue 27
Book Literature and nonfiction McSweeney's, San Francisco, CA McSweeney's Issue 29
Book Image-driven books Underline Studio, Toronto, ON Milk and Melancholy
Book Literature and nonfiction Cosac Naify, São Paulo O livro amarelo do terminal
Book Image-driven books Danielle Aubert, Detroit, MI ReFusing Fashion: Rei Kawakubo
Book Limited-edition and fine-press books atelier Pedro Falcao, Lisboa Rui Chafes
Book Instructional books and textbooks Timothy Donaldson, Colwich Shapes for sounds (cowhouse)
Book Image-driven books Pentagram, New York, NY Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
Book Image-driven books Andrew Blauvelt/Matthew Rezac, Minneapolis, MN Superlight
Book Reference books School of Visual Arts, New York, NY SVA Senior Library 2007
Book Image-driven books VISUAL ARTS Press, Ltd., New York, NY SVA Undergraduate Catalogue
Book Image-driven books Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis
Book Image-driven books Volume Inc., San Francisco, CA The Art of Participation
Book Image-driven books Barbara Bloom, New York, NY The Collections of Barbara Bloom
Book Literature and nonfiction Chip Kidddesign, New York, NY The Learners
Book Image-driven books Stripe, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA The Wizard of Oz
Book Reference books Studio A, Alexandria, VA To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Book Literature and nonfiction Takigawa Design, Monterey, CA Traveller, Observations from an American in Exile
Book Image-driven books why not smile, New York, NY Visible Language
Book Image-driven books why not smile, New York, NY Walk on Red
Book Children's books Simply Read Books, Vancouver, BC Where You Came From
Book Image-driven books Matsumoto Incorporated, New York, NY William Wegman: Dogs on Rocks
Book Image-driven books Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes
Book Literature and nonfiction Pentagram, New York, NY Writings on Architecture
Book Image-driven books Ana Cortils Comunicacion Visual, Madrid Zibaldone of Five Stages in Life