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Gabriel Cure Lemaitre, La Arquitectura del detalle, Concept[o]: Monika Bravo
Gabriel Cure Lemaitre, La Arquitectura del detalle, Concept[o]: Monika Bravo
Monika Bravo
Two Leaves Editions

Nominator: Two Leaves Editions

Designer: Monika Bravo
Art Director: Monika Bravo
Design Firm: Studio Monika Bravo
Other Credits: Photographs: Monika Bravo, Juan LuqueTexts: Carlos Jimenez Moreno & Alejandro Bahamon

Submitted into 50 Books
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Ganesha's Sweet Tooth
Ganesha's Sweet Tooth
Sanjay Patel and Emily Haynes with Illustrations by Sanjay Patel
Chronicle Books

Nominator: Chronicle Books

Designer: Sanjay Patel
Art Director: Amy Achaibou

Submitted into 50 Books


Genealogy Tool Kit: Getting Started on Your Family HIstory at the National Archives
Genealogy Tool Kit: Getting Started on Your Family HIstory at the National Archives
by John P. Deeben
Foundation for the National Archives

Nominator: Evan Phifer

Designer: Rania Hassan
Art Director: Rania Hassan
Other Credits: Edited by Patty Reinert Mason and Benjamin Guterman

Submitted into 50 Books


Generative Design
Generative Design
Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Gross, Julia Laub and Claudius Lazzeroni
Princeton Architectural Press

Nominator:


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Genius of Place
Genius of Place
Justin Martin
Da Capo Press

Nominator: Jonathan Sainsbury

Designer: Jonathan Sainsbury
Art Director: Jonathan Sainsbury
Design Firm: Da Capo

Submitted into 50 Covers


Geothermal Heat Pump Manual
Geothermal Heat Pump Manual

The New York City Department of Design and Construction

Nominator: Eddie Opara

Designer: Ken Deegan
Art Director: Eddie Opara
Design Firm: Pentagram Design

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Gerhard Richter: Patterns: Divided, Mirrored, Repeated
Gerhard Richter: Patterns: Divided, Mirrored, Repeated
Gerhard Richter
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers

Nominator:

Designer: Gerhard Richter

Submitted into 50 Books
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Get Angry, Go Vegan
Get Angry, Go Vegan
Jill McKay


Nominator: Jill McKay

Designer: Jill McKay
Art Director: Jill McKay
Other Credits: Washington University in St. Louis - Senior Seminar Project

Submitted into 50 Books
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Get in the Game
Get in the Game
Matt Crevin
Voice of the Box

Nominator: Jon Knight

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

Submitted into 50 Covers


Getting Away From Pretty Much Away From It All
Getting Away From Pretty Much Away From It All
David Foster Wallace
Little, Brown and Company

Nominator: Amanda Ng

Designer: Matt Tanner

Submitted into 50 Covers


Ghost Writer
Ghost Writer
Lorna Collins
Oak Tree Press

Nominator: Jeana Thompson

Designer: Karen Phillips, L.W.Rigsbee
Art Director: Karen Phillips
Design Firm: Karen Phillips Designs, L.W.Rigsbee

Submitted into 50 Books
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Ghosts of Manhattan
Ghosts of Manhattan
Douglas Brunt
Touchstone

Nominator: Jennifer Heuer

Designer: Jennifer Heuer
Art Director: Cherlynne Li
Other Credits: Photography by Jennifer Heuer

Submitted into 50 Covers


Girl Land
Girl Land
Caitlan Flanagan


Nominator: Kapo Ng

Designer: Lindsey Andrews
Art Director: Mario Pulice

Submitted into 50 Covers


Girl with a Pearl Earring: Masterpieces from the Mauritshuis
Girl with a Pearl Earring: Masterpieces from the Mauritshuis
Lea Van der Vinde
DelMonico Books/Prestel Publishing and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Nominator: Prestel Publishing

Designer: Barbara Glauber, Florian Brozek
Art Director: none
Design Firm: Heavy Meta

Submitted into 50 Covers


Girlchild
Girlchild
Tupelo Hassman


Nominator: Nayon Cho

Designer: Jennifer Carrow
Art Director: Rodrigo Corral
Other Credits: Jacket photographs: Trailer park home © FormAdvertising / Alamy; window and curtains© Lynn James / Getty Images

Submitted into 50 Covers


Gloaming
Gloaming
Keaton Henson
Pocko Editions

Nominator: Robert Simons

Designer: Olga Norman
Art Director: Olga Norman
Design Firm: Pocko Lab
Other Credits: Illustrations by Keaton Henson Typography by Keaton Henson Edited by Nicola Schwartz

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Global Reggae
Global Reggae
Editor Prof. Carolyn Cooper
Canoe Press

Nominator: Michael Thompson

Designer: Michael Thompson (Cover), Maria Papaefstathiou (inside layout)
Art Director: Michael Thompson, Maria Papaefstathiou
Other Credits: Michael Thompson for the book coverMaria Papaefstathiou for the inside book layout. The chapters' illustrations are details from Michael Thompson's poster designs converted in black and white. Selection and conversion by Maria Papaefstathiou. Details of the process: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Global-Reggae-Book/7627493

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Global Vaccine Action Plan
Global Vaccine Action Plan
World Health Organization
World Health Organization

Nominator: Tom Greenwood

Designer: Svenja Knoedler
Art Director: Svenja Knoedler
Design Firm: büro svenja

Submitted into 50 Books


Glotzt Nicht So Romantisch! On Extra-legal Space in Belgrade
Glotzt Nicht So Romantisch! On Extra-legal Space in Belgrade
Dubravka Sekulić
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Nominator: Dubravka Sekulic

Designer: Žiga Testen
Other Credits: Typeset in Lido Bold with photographs by Luka Knežević - Strika, Marko Marovićand Andreja Mirić and illustrations by Walter Warton and architectural drawings by Branko Belaćević and Dubravka SekulićProduced by Jo Frenken and printed by Cassochrome, onMunken Print White 70 g/m² and Munken Print White150 g/m² in an edition of 500 copies

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God Without Being
God Without Being
Jean-Luc Marion
The University of Chicago Press

Nominator: Jill Shimabukuro

Designer: Andrea Guinn
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
Design Firm: The University of Chicago Press

Submitted into 50 Covers


Goldfinger
Goldfinger
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


Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History: A Guide to Type, Image, Symbol, and Visual Storytelling in the Modern World
Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History: A Guide to Type, Image, Symbol, and Visual Storytelling in the Modern World
Richard Poulin
Rockport

Nominator: Susan Hershberg

Designer: Poulin
Art Director: Poulin + Morris, Inc.

Submitted into 50 Books
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Graphic Design Solutions, 5th edition
Graphic Design Solutions, 5th edition
Robin Landa
Wadsworth

Nominator: Robin Landa

Art Director: Cate Rickard Barr
Design Firm: Chen Design Associates

Submitted into 50 Covers


Graphic Design: History In The Writing
Graphic Design: History In The Writing
Sara De Bondt, Catherine De Smet
Occasional Papers

Nominator:

Designer: Sara De Bont Studio

Submitted into 50 Covers


Greetings from Outside the Inside
Greetings from Outside the Inside
Edited by Lukáš Beneš
VA Benes

Nominator:

Designer: Pamela Campagna+ Thomas 'omi' Scheiderbauer

Submitted into 50 Books
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Grete Prytz Kittelsen: The Art of Enamel Design
Grete Prytz Kittelsen: The Art of Enamel Design
Karianne Bjellås Gilje, Thomas Flor, Widar Halén and Jan-Lauritz Opstad
W. W. Norton & Company

Nominator:


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Griefland
Griefland
Armen Bacon and Nancy Miller
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Nominator: Lara Asher

Designer: Diana Nuhn
Design Firm: Globe Pequot Press Design

Submitted into 50 Covers


Guaranteed To Last
Guaranteed To Last
Jim Gorman
Melcher Media

Nominator:

Designer: Think Studio NYC
Art Director: John Clifford

Submitted into 50 Books
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Gyula Kosice in Conversation with Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
Gyula Kosice in Conversation with Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Gyula Kosice
Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Nominator: Satoshi Tabuchi

Designer: Zach Hooker, Ryan Polich
Other Credits: Produced by Marquand Books

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