2012 Nominations

The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China
Peter C. Sturman and Susan S. Tai
Santa Barbara Museum of Art and DelMonico Books, an imprint of Prestel, a member of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH

Nominator: Sydney Hengst

Designer: Lorraine Wild, Xiaoqing Wang and Amy Fortunato
Art Director: Lorraine Wild
Design Firm: Green Dragon Office

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The Teleportation Accident
Ned Beauman
Sceptre

Nominator: La Boca Ltd

Designer: Scot Bendall, Richard Carey, Jon Lyen
Art Director: Scot Bendall
Design Firm: La Boca Ltd

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Melu
Kyle Mewburn
Scholastic

Nominator: John O'Reilly

Designer: John O'Reilly and Ali Teo
Art Director: John O'Reilly and Ali Teo
Design Firm: Flightless

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Metaphor, Memory, and Story
Matthew Wizinsky
School of Art and Design, University of Chicago, Illinois

Nominator: Matthew Wizinsky

Designer: Matthew Wizinsky

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May B.
Caroline Starr Rose
Schwartz & Wade

Nominator:

Designer: Rachel Cole and Christopher Silas Neal

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Black House (Reissue Edition)
Stephen King and Peter Straub
Scribner

Nominator: Rex Bonomelli

Designer: Rex Bonomelli
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli

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Boom, Bust, Boom
Bill Carter
Scribner

Nominator: Matt Tanner

Designer: Oliver Munday

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Boss Rove
Craig Unger
Scribner

Nominator: Christopher Lin

Designer: Christopher Lin
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli
Design Firm: Simon & Schuster

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Buddhaland Brooklyn
Richard C. Morais
Scribner

Nominator: Christopher Lin

Designer: Christopher Lin
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli
Design Firm: Simon & Schuster

By the Iowa Sea
Joe Blair
Scribner

Nominator: Christopher Lin

Designer: Christopher Lin
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli
Design Firm: Simon & Schuster

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Eight Girls Taking Pictures
Whitney Otto
Scribner

Nominator: Rex Bonomelli

Designer: Rex Bonomelli
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli

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Equal of the Sun
Anita Amirrezvani
Scribner

Nominator: Rex Bonomelli

Designer: Rex Bonomelli
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli

Submitted into 50 Covers

F. Scott Fitzgerald Series Reissue
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner

Nominator: Rex Bonomelli

Designer: Rex Bonomelli
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli

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Some Girls, Some Hats, and Hitler
Trudi Kanter
Scribner

Nominator: RexBonomelli

Designer: Rex Bonomelli
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli

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The American Way of Eating
Tracie McMillan
Scribner

Nominator: Rex Bonomelli

Designer: Rex Bonomelli
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli

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The Journal of Best Practices
David Finch
Scribner

Nominator: Rex Bonomelli

Designer: Rex Bonomelli
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli

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Wild Girls
Mary Stewart Atwell
Scribner

Nominator: Rex Bonomelli

Designer: Rex Bonomelli
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli

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The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories
Ivan Vladislavic
Seagull Books

Nominator: --

Designer: Jacket design by Sunandini Banerjee
Art Director: Seagull Books

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Sprechendes Wasser
Jürg Halter, Tanikawa Shuntarô
Secession Verlag für Literatur

Nominator: Boris Kochan

Designer: Christian Tremmel
Art Director: Boris Kochan
Design Firm: KOCHAN & PARTNER
Other Credits: ”Sprechendes Wasser ” combines the ideas and stories of two generations from two cultures and incorporates them into the circulation of the primordial element of the language: in poetic thoughts, in the beauty of the felicitous image. The layout of this volume of poetry uses the tactile possibilities of sensitive materials and finishing options and systematically guides readers in the bilingual dialogue. By the printed inner pages of the Japanese binding, once again a unique pattern emerges – a combination of the superficial and the background. The idea threads of the poem cycle are mutually reinforced through the seamless weaving of the pages. The double cover with the change from portrait to landscape illustrates the dialogue between Western and Eastern ways of thinking and writing.

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DIARY OF BONIA SHUR 1941-1945
Bonia Shur, Limore Shur
self

Nominator: Mia Rockel

Designer: Mia Rockel
Art Director: Limore Shur, Mia Rockel
Design Firm: eyeball, Limore Shur
Other Credits: Jory Hull, Ellen Spivak

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Spire
Mathew Ferguson
self

Nominator: Katrina Jenkins

Designer: Karri Klawiter

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Suicide Plunge
Philip W. Arnold
Self Published

Nominator: Philip Arnold

Designer: unknown
Art Director: Phil Arnold
Design Firm: 99 Designs

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Relationships
Dr Mark R Naim
Self published, though Balboa Press

Nominator: Mark Naim

Designer: Mark Naim (self)

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Mint a Szép Híves Patak (Like the Ornamental Stream)
Lenke Dencs
Self Publishing

Nominator: Attila Sandor

Designer: Attila Sandor
Art Director: Attila Sandor
Design Firm: www.attilasandor.hu

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273 Relics for John Cage (A Likeness Is an Aid to Memory)
Paul Soulellis
self-published

Nominator: Paul Soulellis

Designer: Paul Soulellis

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Hopeless
Colleen Hoover
self-published

Nominator: Sarah Hansen

Designer: Okay Creations
Art Director: Sarah Hansen

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Stripped (Sixty-Six Sunsets Stripped)
Paul Soulellis
self-published

Nominator: Paul Soulellis

Designer: Paul Soulellis

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The Spectral Lens (Twenty-Six Stories from the Book Machine)
Paul Soulellis
self-published

Nominator: Paul Soulellis

Designer: Paul Soulellis

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The Meaning of Language
Irina Shapiro
self-publishing

Nominator: Irina Shapiro

Designer: Irina Shapiro
Art Director: Irina Shapiro
Design Firm: Studio Squash
Other Credits: Research support for the history of Cyrillic alphabet by John Lane and Tagir Safaev.

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One by One
Edited by Jianping He
Sendpoints

Nominator:

Designer: Jianping He

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Meme Wars
Kalle Lasn and Adbusters
Seven Stories Press

Nominator: Andrea Bennett

Designer: AdBusters
Art Director: Will Brown

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Achieve More Together
Ray Culley, Mary-Beth Matthews
Severstal North America

Nominator: Jeff Kimble

Designer: Jeff Kimble
Art Director: Jeff Kimble
Design Firm: Communica, Inc.

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Material Manifestations: Cultural Affects of Shaker Artifacts
Andrew Saunders / Rensselaer Architecture
Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon

Nominator: Andrew Saunders

Designer: Andrew Saunders, Michael Villardi, Caressa Siu, Shima Miabadi & Lauren Thomson
Art Director: Andrew Saunders
Design Firm: Andrew Saunders
Other Credits: BOOK DESIGN AND EDITINGDESIGNER & COORDINATOR ��— ANDREW SAUNDERSLEAD GRAPHIC DESIGNER & EDITOR ��— MICHAEL VILLARDILEAD GRAPHIC DESIGNER & EDITOR ��— CARESSA SIUCOPY EDITOR ��— LAUREN THOMSENGRAPHIC DESIGNER ��— SHIMA MIABADIANDREW VAN MEERBEKEPAUL CHANRENSSELAER LEADERSHIPPRESIDENT ��— SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON, PH.D.DEAN ��— EVAN DOUGLISSHAKER MUSEUM | MOUNT LEBANONPRESIDENT ��— DAVID STOCKSDIRECTOR OF COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCH ��— JERRY GRANTBOOK PRINTINGNEW YORK ��— SNYDER PRINTER INC.

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Type Compass: Charting New Routes in Typography
Emilio Macchia, Michael Brenner, Luca Bendandi and Matteo Cossu
SHS Publisher

Nominator: Matteo Cossu

Designer: Emilio Macchia, Michael Brenner
Art Director: Emilio Macchia, Michael Brenner
Other Credits: Forward written by Gerry Leonidas, Course Director at MA in Typeface Design, University of Reading.

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Between Page and Screen
Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse
Siglio

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Jess: O! Tricky Cad & Other Jessoterica
edited by Michael Duncan
Siglio

Nominator: Lisa Pearson

Designer: Natalie Kraft
Art Director: Natalie Kraft

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The Address Book
Sophie Calle
Siglio

Nominator: Lisa Pearson

Designer: Natalie Kraft

Submitted into 50 Books

House of Holes
Nicholson Baker
Simon & Schuster

Nominator: Jason Heuer

Designer: Jason Heuer
Art Director: Jackie Seow
Design Firm: Jason Heuer Design

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In the Shadow of the Banyan
Vaddey Ratner
Simon & Schuster

Nominator: Christopher Lin

Designer: Christopher Lin
Art Director: Jackie Seow
Design Firm: Simon & Schuster

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The Bill from My Father
Bernard Cooper
Simon & Schuster

Nominator: Jason Heuer

Designer: Jason Heuer
Art Director: Michael Accordino
Design Firm: Jason Heuer Design
Other Credits: Redesign for a reprint run in 2012

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The Great Bridge, 40th Anniversary Edition
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster

Nominator: Jason Heuer

Designer: Jason Heuer
Art Director: Jackie Seow
Design Firm: Jason Heuer Design

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The Lawgiver
Herman Wouk
Simon & Schuster

Nominator: Christopher Lin

Designer: Christopher Lin
Art Director: Jackie Seow
Design Firm: Simon & Schuster

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The Way the World Works
Nicholson Baker
Simon & Schuster

Nominator: Jason Heuer

Designer: Jason Heuer
Art Director: Jackie Seow
Design Firm: Jason Heuer Design

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Encyclopedia Paranoiaca
Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf
Simon and Schuster

Nominator: David Ter-Avanesyan

Designer: David Ter-Avanesyan
Art Director: Michael Accordino
Design Firm: David Ter-Avanesyan

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Middle Men
Jim Gavin
Simon and Schuster

Nominator: Jackie Seow

Designer: Joel Holland
Art Director: Jackie Seow
Design Firm: Joel Holland

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Seward
Walter Stahr
Simon and Schuster

Nominator: David Ter-Avanesyan

Designer: David Ter-Avanesyan
Art Director: Michael Accordino
Design Firm: David Ter-Avanesyan

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The Dangerous Animals CLub
Stephen Tobolowsky
Simon and Schuster

Nominator: Jackie Seow

Designer: Jaime Keenan
Art Director: Jackie Seow
Design Firm: Keenan Design

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Trail of the Spellmans
Lisa Lutz
Simon and Schuster

Nominator: Jackie Seow

Designer: Jackie Seow
Art Director: Jackie Seow
Other Credits: Illustrator by Noma Bar

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Doris Duke's Shangri-La
Donald Albrecht, Thomas Mellins, Tim Street-Porter and Deborah Pope
Skira Rizzoli

Nominator: Abbott Miller

Designer: Kim Walker
Art Director: Abbott Miller
Design Firm: Pentagram Design

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The Architecture of the Barnes Foundation
Tod Williams, Billie Tsien and Kenneth Frampton
Skira Rizzoli

Nominator: Abbott Miller

Designer: Kim Walker
Art Director: Abbott Miller
Design Firm: Pentagram Design

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The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks
Judith F. Dolkart, Martha Lucy, Derek Gillman and The Barnes Foundation
Skira Rizzoli

Nominator: Abbott Miller

Designer: Kim Walker
Art Director: Abbott Miller
Design Firm: Pentagram Design

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Griefland
Armen Bacon and Nancy Miller
skirt! ® is an imprint of Globe Pequot Press-SkirtBooks.com

Nominator: Lara Asher

Designer: Diana Nuhn
Design Firm: Globe Pequot Press Design

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40 Under 40: Craft Futures
Edited by Mary J. Cleary, Jane McAllister
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Nominator: --

Designer: Karen Siatras

Submitted into 50 Books

Memoir of a Porcupine
Alain Mabanckou
Soft Skull Press

Nominator: Kimberly Glyder

Designer: Kimberly Glyder
Design Firm: Kimberly Glyder Design

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Sea Monkey
Kris Saknussemm
Soft Skull Press

Nominator: Kelly Winton

Art Director: Tim Green
Design Firm: Faceout Studio

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The Great Frustration
Seth Fried
Soft Skull press

Nominator: Sarah Sharpe

Designer: Anna Bauer
Art Director: Denise Oswald
Design Firm: Independent

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The Salt God's Daughter
Ilie Ruby
Soft Skull Press

Nominator: Kelly Winton

Art Director: Jeff Miller
Design Firm: Faceout Studio

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That's Not a Feeling
Dan Josefson
Soho Press

Nominator: Kapo Ng

Designer: Kapo Ng
Art Director: Kapo Ng
Design Firm: Kapo Ng

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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
Julianna Garey
Soho Press

Nominator: Kapo Ng

Designer: Kapo Ng
Art Director: Kapo Ng
Design Firm: Kapo Ng

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Zombie
J. R. Angelella
Soho Press

Nominator: Kapo Ng

Designer: Kapo Ng
Art Director: Kapo Ng
Design Firm: Kapo Ng
Other Credits: Cover art: Jad Fair

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How to Talk About Wine
Bernard Klem
Sterling Epicure

Nominator: Catherine Casalino

Designer: Catherine Casalino
Art Director: Elizabeth Mihaltse
Design Firm: Catherine Casalino Design

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Jonathan Adler 100 Ways to Happy Chic Your Life
Jonathan Adler
Sterling Publishing

Nominator: Matthias Ernstberger

Designer: Brett Tabolt, Jong Woo Si
Art Director: Matthias Ernstberger
Design Firm: ME&Friends

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The Transdisciplinary Studio
Alex Coles
Sternberg Press

Nominator:

Designer: Miram Rech, markus Weisbeck, Surface,

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Zak Kyes Working With ...
Various
Sternberg Press

Nominator:

Designer: Wayne Daly

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Dark Peak
JG PARKER
STONEWOOD PRESS

Nominator: PREETHA LEELA CHOCKALINGAM

Designer: MARTIN PARKER
Art Director: MARTIN PARKER
Design Firm: STONEWOOD PRESS
Other Credits: JG PARKER

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EARTHWORKS
JACQUELINE GABBITAS
STONEWOODPRESS

Nominator: PREETHA LEELA CHOCKALINGAM

Art Director: MARTIN PARKER
Design Firm: STONEWOOD PRESS

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Still Point
Suki Chan
Suki Chan

Nominator: Tick Tack London

Designer: Carl Stratton
Art Director: Carl Stratton
Design Firm: Tick Tack London
Other Credits: This cover shows both the Star of Redemption and the Star of David working in harmony to form a beautiful geometric pattern. The concept for this cover was design for and coincides with Suki Chan's 'Still Point' video piece that 'examines how cultural and religious identities have changed over time and how allegiances have shifted'.

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