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2012 Nominations


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Rashid Johnson: Message To Our Folks
Rashid Johnson: Message To Our Folks

Museum of Contemporary Art Monographs

Nominator:

Designer: James Goggin and Alfredo Ruiz

Submitted into 50 Books


Reckoning at Rainrock
Reckoning at Rainrock
Wayne D.Dundee
Oak Tree Press

Nominator: Jeana Thompson

Designer: Kurt Bredt
Art Director: Billie Johnson
Design Firm: Kurt Bredt
Other Credits: Interior by L.W.Rigsbee

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Recoding Gender
Recoding Gender
Janet Abbate
The MIT Press

Nominator: The MIT Press

Designer: Emily Gutheinz
Design Firm: The MIT Press

Submitted into 50 Covers


Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Rebecca Senf (Author), Stephen Pyne (Author), Mark Klett (Author), Byron Wolfe (Author)
University of California Press

Nominator: Caitlin O'Hara

Designer: David Skolkin

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Recreation Ground
Recreation Ground
Tom Phillips
Two Rivers Press

Nominator: Nadja Guggi

Designer: Nadja Guggi

Submitted into 50 Covers


Regenesis
Regenesis
George Church
Basic Books

Nominator: Nicole Caputo

Designer: Andrea Cardenas
Art Director: Nicole Caputo

Submitted into 50 Covers


Reinventing Bach
Reinventing Bach
Paul Elie
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Nominator: Nayon Cho

Designer: Rodrigo Corral
Art Director: Rodrigo Corral
Design Firm: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Other Credits: Jacket art by Adly Elewa

Submitted into 50 Covers


Relationships
Relationships
Dr Mark R Naim
Self published, though Balboa Press

Nominator: Mark Naim

Designer: Mark Naim (self)

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Relative Strangers
Relative Strangers
Margaret Hermes
Carolina Wren Press

Nominator: Margaret Hermes

Designer: Lesley Landis
Design Firm: Lesley Landis Designs
Other Credits: Cover image created by Lucy Hg

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Renoir in the Barnes Foundation
Renoir in the Barnes Foundation
John House and Martha Lucy
Yale University Press

Nominator: Abbott Miller

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

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
Andrew Zolli & Ann Marie Healy


Nominator: William Drenttel

Designer: Ruth Lee-Mui

Submitted into 50 Covers


ReThinking a Lot, The Design and Culture of Parking
ReThinking a Lot, The Design and Culture of Parking
Eran Ben-Joseph
The MIT Press

Nominator: Emily Gutheinz

Designer: Margarita Encomienda
Other Credits: Roger Conover, acquisitions editor. Matthew Abbate, manuscript editor. Janet Rossi, production manager.

Submitted into 50 Covers


Return to the Sea: Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto
Return to the Sea: Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto
Mark Sloan and Mark Kurlansky
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

Nominator: Lizz Biswell

Designer: Gil Shuler
Art Director: Gil Shuler
Design Firm: gil shuler graphic design, inc.

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


review Gruppen n°4
review Gruppen n°4
Morgan Sportès, Serge Pey, Thomas Vinau, Laurent Jarfer, Yann Beauvais, Mark Morrisroe, Pierre-Ulysse Barranque, Sébastien Miravete, Caterina Pasqualino, Bernard Bourrit
Gruppen Editions

Nominator: Gruppen Editions

Designer: GATTI Laurence
Art Director: Gatti Laurence
Other Credits: www.revuegruppen.com

Submitted into 50 Covers


review Gruppen n°5
review Gruppen n°5
Bernard Stiegler, Laurent Jarfer, Serge Pey, Ilan Kaddouch, David Christoffel, Anselm Jappe, Yann Bagot, Yann Beauvais, Pierre-Ulysse Barranque, Sébastien Miravete, Bruno Almosnino
Gruppen Editions

Nominator: Laurent JARFER

Designer: GATTI Laurence
Art Director: GATTI Laurence
Design Firm: www.revuegruppen.com

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


review Gruppen n°6
review Gruppen n°6
Michaël Lévinas, Charles Pennequin, Laurent Jarfer, Serge Pey, Ilan Kaddouch, Yann Beauvais, Dan Perjovschi, Bartolome Ferrando, Rosa Piro, Gabriel Condé, Pierre-Ulysse Barranque, Sébastien Miravete
Gruppen Editions

Nominator: Gruppen Editions

Designer: GATTI Laurence
Art Director: Gatti Laurence
Other Credits: www.revuegruppen.com

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Rim Country Exodus
Rim Country Exodus
Daniel J. Herman
University of Arizona Press

Nominator: Leigh McDonald

Designer: Carrie House
Art Director: Leigh McDonald

Submitted into 50 Covers


Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
Contributions by Jennifer Blessing, Sandra S. Phillips, Chelsea Spengemann, and Jan van Adrichem
Guggenheim Museum

Nominator: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Design Firm: Mevis & van Deursen

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Rip Kirby - sabrane pasice 1954.-1956. (Rip Kirby - Complete Comic Strips), Vol. 4
Rip Kirby - sabrane pasice 1954.-1956. (Rip Kirby - Complete Comic Strips), Vol. 4
Author: Alex Raymond, Editor: Marko Sunjic
Naklada Fibra d.o.o.

Nominator: Melina Mikulic

Designer: Melina Mikulic
Art Director: Melina Mikulic
Design Firm: Plavi dabar

Submitted into 50 Covers


Roman and WIlliams Buildings and Interiors: Things We Made
Roman and WIlliams Buildings and Interiors: Things We Made
Stephen Alesch, Robin Standefer, and Jamie Brisick
Rizzoli USA

Nominator: Joshua Cohen

Art Director: Hana Nakamura
Other Credits: Creative Director: Matteo Bologna

Submitted into 50 Books


Romeo Spikes
Romeo Spikes
Joanne Reay
Gallery Books

Nominator: Christopher Sergio

Designer: Christopher Sergio
Art Director: Lisa Litwack
Design Firm: Christopher Sergio Design

Submitted into 50 Covers


Roni Horn: 153 Drawings
Roni Horn: 153 Drawings
Tacita Dean, Briony Fer, Michaela Unterdörfer, Roni Horn
JRP|Ringier

Nominator: Robin Brunelle

Designer: Takaaki Matsumoto
Art Director: Takaaki Matsumoto
Design Firm: Matsumoto Incorporated

Submitted into 50 Books
Submitted into 50 Covers


Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs
Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
Ecco/HarperCollins

Nominator: Alison Forner

Designer: Alison Forner
Art Director: Allison Saltzman

Submitted into 50 Covers


Ruby and the Stone Age Diet
Ruby and the Stone Age Diet
Martin Millar
Piatkus

Nominator: La Boca Ltd

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

Submitted into 50 Covers


Rudolf de Crignis
Rudolf de Crignis
Rudolf de Crignis
Radius Books

Nominator: Jenni Higginbotham

Designer: David Chickey
Art Director: David Chickey
Design Firm: Skolkin & Chickey
Other Credits: Paintings by Rudolf de Crignis. Foreword by Lawrence Rinder. Essay by Georg Imdahl. Interview with the artist by Joseph Cunningham.

Submitted into 50 Books





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