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2012 Nominations


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F. Scott Fitzgerald Series Reissue
F. Scott Fitzgerald Series Reissue
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner

Nominator: Rex Bonomelli

Designer: Rex Bonomelli
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli

Submitted into 50 Covers


Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm
Philip Pullman
Viking/Penguin

Nominator: Alison Forner

Designer: Alison Forner
Art Director: Paul Buckley

Submitted into 50 Covers


Farther Away
Farther Away
Jonathan Franzen


Nominator: Jennifer Carrow

Art Director: Rodrigo Corral

Submitted into 50 Covers


Fashioning the Object
Fashioning the Object
Zoe Ryan
Art Institute of Chicago

Nominator: --

Designer: Jeff Wonderland
Art Director: 2x4

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat
Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat
Harvey Levenstein
The University of Chicago Press

Nominator: Jill Shimabukuro

Designer: Matt Avery
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
Design Firm: The University of Chicago Press

Submitted into 50 Covers


Felipe Cohen, Recent Works
Felipe Cohen, Recent Works
Felipe Cohen, Daniel Trench
Galeria Marília Razuk

Nominator: Daniel Trench

Designer: Daniel Trench
Art Director: Daniel Trench
Design Firm: Daniel Trench

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Fernando Távora – Permanent Modernity
Fernando Távora – Permanent Modernity
Casa da Arquitectura
Casa da Arquitectura

Nominator: Rita Marquito

Designer: Daniel Santos, Hugo Pinheiro
Art Director: João Bicker
Design Firm: FBA. – Ferrand, Bicker e Associados

Submitted into 50 Books


Finding Right Work: Five Steps to a Life You Love
Finding Right Work: Five Steps to a Life You Love
Leni Miller
Leni Miller

Nominator: Geri Lafferty

Designer: Susan Pate
Art Director: Susan Pate
Design Firm: Susan Pate

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Fish In The Sky
Fish In The Sky
Fridrik Erlings
Candlewick Press

Nominator: Matt Roeser

Designer: Matt Roeser
Art Director: Chris Paul

Submitted into 50 Covers


FIT: An Architect's Manifesto
FIT: An Architect's Manifesto
Robert Geddes
Princeton University Press

Nominator: Casey LaVela

Designer: Jason Alejandro

Submitted into 50 Covers


Five Borough Farm: Seeding the Future of Urban Agriculture in New York City
Five Borough Farm: Seeding the Future of Urban Agriculture in New York City
Nevin Cohen, Kristin Reynolds, and Rupal Sanghvi
Design Trust for Public Space

Nominator: William Drenttel

Designer: Agnieszka Gasparska

Submitted into 50 Books


Five Hundred and Forty Women
Five Hundred and Forty Women
Charles Kaufman
Back Wall Art

Nominator: Charles Kaufman

Art Director: Charles Kaufman

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Flower
Flower
Andrew Zuckerman
Chronicle Books

Nominator: Michael Carabetta

Designer: David Meredith
Art Director: PQ Blackwell

Submitted into 50 Books


Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Donaldson
University of Minnesota Press

Nominator: Victor Mingovits

Designer: Victor Mingovits
Art Director: Victor Mingovits
Design Firm: Mingovits Design

Submitted into 50 Covers


Forgetting the Art World
Forgetting the Art World
Pamela E. Lee
The MIT Press

Nominator: The MIT Press

Designer: Emily Gutheinz
Design Firm: The MIT Press

Submitted into 50 Books


Fortuny
Fortuny
Brian Coleman and Erik Kvalsvik
Gibbs Smith

Nominator: Luke Hayman

Designer: Regan Johnson
Art Director: Luke Hayman
Design Firm: Pentagram Design

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Fred Sandback
Fred Sandback
Fred Sandback
Radius Books and David Zwirner

Nominator: Jenni Higginbotham

Designer: David Chickey
Art Director: David Chickey
Design Firm: Skolkin & Chickey
Other Credits: Essay by James Lawrence.

Submitted into 50 Books


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

Nominator: Patrick Serrano

Designer: Patrick Serrano

Submitted into 50 Covers


From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities
From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
The University of Chicago Press

Nominator: Jill Shimabukuro

Designer: Michael Brehm
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
Design Firm: The University of Chicago Press

Submitted into 50 Covers


From Russia With Love
From Russia With Love
Ian Fleming
Thomas & Mercer

Nominator: Archie Ferguson

Designer: Archie Ferguson
Art Director: Archie Ferguson
Design Firm: Archie Ferguson Design
Other Credits: Part of a 16 book series

Submitted into 50 Covers


Full Count: Top 10 Lists of Everything in Baseball
Full Count: Top 10 Lists of Everything in Baseball
Sports Illustrated Kids; Andrea Woo, Project Editor
Time Home Entertainment

Nominator: Beth Bugler

Designer: Beth Bugler, Kirsten Sorton
Art Director: Beth Bugler
Other Credits: Photo Editors: Marguerite Schropp Lucarelli, Porter Binks, Annmarie Avila

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Full Exposure: The Uncompromising Life and Lens of Kathe Kowalski
Full Exposure: The Uncompromising Life and Lens of Kathe Kowalski
Author: Charlotte Wellman Copy Editor: Gerald Zeigerman
Erie Art Museum

Nominator: Shelle Barron

Designer: Shelle Barron
Art Director: Shelle Barron
Design Firm: Erie Art Museum Publications
Other Credits: Director/Curator: John VancoPublications Coordinator: Andrea KrivakCopy Photographer: Tom Eells

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Full Foreground
Full Foreground
Roberto Tejada
University of Arizona Press

Nominator: Leigh McDonald

Designer: Leigh McDonald
Art Director: Leigh McDonald

Submitted into 50 Covers


FUSE 1–20
FUSE 1–20
Neville Brody, Jon Wozencroft
TASCHEN

Nominator: TASCHEN

Designer: Various
Art Director: Josh Baker

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers





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