2012 Nominations

Veil
Aaron Overfield
Aaron Overfield

Nominator: Aaron Overfield

Designer: Aaron Overfield, Megan Wunder, Jenna Thall
Art Director: Aaron Overfield
Design Firm: Killer Imaging
Other Credits: Misha Grace - model

Submitted into 50 Books
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Alphabet Everywhere
Elliott Kaufman
Abbeville Press

Nominator: Audrey Schomer

Designer: Misha Belesky

Submitted into 50 Books

Broadway Musicals: From the pages of The New York Times
Ben Brantley
Abrams

Nominator: Sarah Gifford

Designer: Sarah Gifford
Design Firm: Abrams

Submitted into 50 Covers

Edible Selby
Todd Selby, Chad Robertson (Introduction), Sally Singer (Foreword)
Abrams

Nominator: Mother Design

Designer: Damien Saatdjian
Art Director: Creative Director: Michael Kaye // Design Director: Paulina Reyes
Design Firm: Mother Design

Submitted into 50 Books

Impact: 50 Years of the Council of Fashion Designers of America
Rebecca Kaplan, Editor
Abrams

Nominator: Sarah Gifford

Designer: Sarah Gifford
Design Firm: Abrams

Submitted into 50 Books
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Lillian Bassman Lingerie
Lillian Bassman
Abrams

Nominator: Sarah Gifford

Designer: Sarah Gifford
Design Firm: Abrams

Submitted into 50 Books
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Love Looks Not With the Eyes: Thirteen Years With Lee Alexander McQueen
Anne Deniau
Abrams

Nominator: Gala Delmont

Designer: Donnie Luu
Art Director: David Yung
Design Firm: 2x4
Other Credits: Creative Director: Susan Sellers Photograph by Anne Deniau

Submitted into 50 Covers

Norman Bel Geddes Designs America
Donald Albrecht, Editor
Abrams

Nominator: Sarah Gifford

Designer: Sarah Gifford
Design Firm: Abrams

Submitted into 50 Books
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Tim Walker: Story Teller
Photography by Tim Walker, Foreword by Kate Bush, Introduction by Robin Muir
Abrams

Nominator: Tim Hossler

Designer: Ruth Ansel and Tim Hossler
Art Director: Ruth Ansel
Other Credits: Typographic Design by Tim Hossler

Submitted into 50 Books

Urban Farms
Sarah C. Rich
Abrams

Nominator: Sarah Gifford

Designer: Sarah Gifford
Design Firm: Abrams

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Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land
Edited by Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle, with an introduction by Neal Gabler
Abrams ComicArts

Nominator: Misha Beletsky

Designer: Misha Beletsky
Art Director: Michelle Ishay-Cohen
Other Credits: More info here: http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/Yiddishkeit-9780810997493.html

Submitted into 50 Books
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P&O: Across the Oceans, Across the Years
Ruth Artmonsky, Susie Cox
ACC

Nominator: James Webb

Designer: Brian Webb, Dan Smith
Art Director: Brian Webb, Dan Smith
Design Firm: Webb & Webb

Submitted into 50 Covers

Popular Lies About Graphic Design
Craig Ward
Actar

Nominator: Craig Ward

Designer: Craig Ward
Art Director: Craig Ward
Design Firm: The Words are Pictures Studio

Submitted into 50 Books
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The Sniper's Log: An Architectural Perspective of Generation-X
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Actar

Nominator: Alejandro Zaera-Polo

Designer: ActarPro
Art Director: ActarPro
Design Firm: ActarPro

Submitted into 50 Books
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Chinoiserie
Karen Rigby
Ahsahta Press

Nominator: K. Rigby

Designer: Jeff Clark
Design Firm: Quemadura

Submitted into 50 Covers

The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral
Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep, eds.
Ahsahta Press

Nominator: Janet Holmes

Designer: Jeff Clark
Art Director: n/a
Design Firm: Quemadura

Submitted into 50 Books
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Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970s
Heather Pesanti
Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Nominator: Barbara Glauber

Designer: Barbara Glauber
Design Firm: Heavy Meta

Submitted into 50 Books

Dark Elderberry Branch
Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine
Alice James Books

Nominator: Mary Austin Speaker

Designer: Mary Austin Speaker
Art Director: Mary Austin Speaker
Design Firm: Mary Austin Speaker Design

Submitted into 50 Books

Western Practice
Stephen Motika
Alice James Books

Nominator: Mary Austin Speaker

Designer: Mary Austin Speaker
Art Director: Mary Austin Speaker
Design Firm: Mary Austin Speaker Design

Submitted into 50 Books

From “Superman” to Man
J. A. Rogers
Amereon, Ltd

Nominator: Patrick Serrano

Designer: Patrick Serrano

Submitted into 50 Covers

In Persuit of a Vision
FIND
American Antiquarian Society

Nominator: --

Designer: Abigal P. Hutchinson

Submitted into 50 Books
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The Tobacco Atlas
Michael Eriksen, Judith Mackay, Hana Ross
American Cancer Society

Nominator: William Drenttel

Designer: Language Department
Design Firm: Language Department

Submitted into 50 Books
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Persistence Creates Opportunity, Building America for 50 Years
Susan Carter, Authors Anonymous and Ames Construction
Ames Construction, Inc.

Nominator: Frank James

Designer: Frank James, John Matheson
Art Director: Frank James, John Matheson
Design Firm: Blue Hot Creative
Other Credits: Printing:GLS Companies, Inc.Book Binding:Midwest Editions, Inc.

Submitted into 50 Books
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The Gods of Gotham
Lindsay Faye
Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam

Nominator: Jim Tierney

Designer: Sara Wood
Art Director: Lisa Amoroso

Submitted into 50 Covers

Bibliodeath: My Archives (With Life in Footnotes)
Andrei Codrescu
ANTIBOOKCLUB

Nominator: Gabriel Levinson

Designer: Will Petty, Gabriel Levinson

Submitted into 50 Books
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The Diesel
Thani Al-Suwaidi
ANTIBOOKCLUB

Nominator: Gabriel Levinson

Designer: John Gall

Submitted into 50 Books
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101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides
Denise Wolff
Aperture

Nominator: Barbara Escobar

Designer: Emily Lessard

Submitted into 50 Books
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Aperture Magazine Anthology: The Minor White Years, 1952–1976
Peter C. Bunnell, Lesley A. Martin, Diana C. Stoll
Aperture

Nominator: Barbara Escobar

Designer: Andrew Sloat

Submitted into 50 Books
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Infra, photographs by Richard Mosse
Richard Mosse, Lesley A. Martin
Aperture

Nominator: Barbara Escobar

Designer: Emily Lessard

Submitted into 50 Books
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Paul Strand: The Garden at Orgeval
Denise Wolff
Aperture

Nominator: Barbara Escobar

Designer: Daniel Baer

Submitted into 50 Books
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Petrochemical America, Photographs by Richard Misrach, Ecological Atlas by Kate Orff
Melissa Harris
Aperture

Nominator: Barbara Escobar

Designer: Bob Aufuldish
Design Firm: Aufuldish & Warinner

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Photography Changes Everything
Marvin Heiferman, Denise Wolff
Aperture

Nominator: Barbara Escobar

Designer: Emily Lessard

Submitted into 50 Books
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The Factory of Dreams: Inside Televisa Studios, photographs by Stefan Ruiz
Denise Wolff
Aperture

Nominator: Barbara Escobar

Designer: Studio Fernando Gutiérrez

Submitted into 50 Books
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Occupied Territory, photographs by Lynne Cohen
Denise Wolff
Aperture / Stephen Daiter Gallery

Nominator: Barbara Escobar

Designer: Nikolay Saveliev

Submitted into 50 Books
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Fashioning the Object
Zoe Ryan
Art Institute of Chicago

Nominator: --

Designer: Jeff Wonderland
Art Director: 2x4

Submitted into 50 Books
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O Cair da Noite
Isaac Asimov
Arte & Letra

Nominator: Frede Tizzot

Designer: Frede Tizzot
Art Director: Frede Tizzot
Design Firm: Arte & Letra

Submitted into 50 Books
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A Hundred Seas Rising
Suki Chan
Aspex Gallery

Nominator: Tick Tack London

Designer: Carl Stratton
Art Director: Carl Stratton
Design Firm: Tick Tack London
Other Credits: This concept coincides with the physical notion of Suki's exhibition 'A Hundred Sea's Rising' which uses multiple layers of overlaid sound to communicated ideas of revolution.

Submitted into 50 Covers

Bull of Heaven: The Mythic Life of Eddie Buczynski and the Rise of the New York Pagan
Michael G. Lloyd
Asphodel Press

Nominator: Michael G. Lloyd

Designer: Carvin Rinehart
Art Director: Carvin Rinehart
Design Firm: www.carvinrinehart.com

Submitted into 50 Covers

Isaac Julien, Geopoetics
Tete Martinho
Associação Cultural Videobrasil / SESC

Nominator: Daniel Trench

Designer: Daniel Trench
Art Director: Daniel Trench, Celso Longo
Design Firm: Celso Longo + Daniel Trench

Submitted into 50 Books

Counting Backwards
Laura Lascaro
Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster

Nominator: Laura Hanifin

Designer: Michael McCartney
Art Director: Michael McCartney
Other Credits: Photography: Laura Hanifin

Submitted into 50 Covers

An End to All Things
Jared Yates Sexton
Atticus Books

Nominator: gray318

Designer: Jamie Keenan
Design Firm: Keenan

Submitted into 50 Covers

Kino
Jürgen Fauth
Atticus Books

Nominator: gray318

Designer: Jamie Keenan
Design Firm: Keenan

Submitted into 50 Covers

Burn the Resume, You need a professional profile
Donald Burrows, Deborah Drake
Aviva Publishing

Nominator: Jon Knight

Designer: Jon Knight
Art Director: Jon Knight
Design Firm: Sound Design Solutions

Submitted into 50 Covers