2012 Nominations

Waging Heavy Peace
Neil Young
Blue Rider Press

Nominator: Gregg Kulick

Designer: John Reardon
Art Director: Gregg Kulick

Submitted into 50 Covers

Waifs Of The Wasteland
Wayne Beauvais
Oak Tree Press

Nominator: Jeana Thompson

Designer: Reese -Winslow, L.W.Rigsbee
Art Director: Reese -Winslow
Design Firm: Reese -Winslow Designs , L.W.Rigsbee

Submitted into 50 Books
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Walk-In
Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily
Oak Tree Press

Nominator: Jeana Thompson

Designer: Reese - Winslow , L.W,Rigsbee
Art Director: Reese - Winslow
Design Firm: Reese - Winslow Designs , L.W,Rigsbee

Submitted into 50 Books
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Walkable City
Jeff Speck
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Nominator: Maureen Bishop

Designer: Nayon Cho
Art Director: Rodrigo Corral
Design Firm: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Other Credits: Jacket photographs: Bicyclist © Purcell Team / Alamy; walking family © Peter Cavanagh / Alamy; crosswalk and other pedestrians © amana images inc. / Alamy

Submitted into 50 Covers

Wang Shu – Imagining the House
Wang Shu
Lars Müller Publishers

Nominator: Lars Müller Publishers

Designer: Integral Lars Müller
Art Director: Lars Müller
Design Firm: Integral Lars Müller

Submitted into 50 Books

War Games, A History of War on Paper
Philipp von Hilgers, translated by Ross Benjamin
The MIT Press

Nominator: Emily Gutheinz

Designer: Margarita Encomienda
Other Credits: Marguerite Avery, acquisitions editor Jim Mitchell, production coordinator

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Wasted World
Rob Hengeveld
The University of Chicago Press

Nominator: Jill Shimabukuro

Designer: Isaac Tobin
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
Design Firm: The University of Chicago Press

Submitted into 50 Covers

We are Canada
Rikia Saddy
Read Leaf

Nominator: Pablo Mandel

Designer: Pablo Mandel
Art Director: Pablo Mandel and Rikia Saddy
Design Firm: Pablo Mandel / Circular Studio
Other Credits: Text by Rikia SaddyIllustrations by Cameron McLellan

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

What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
Will Gompertz
Penguin

Nominator: Katie Burns

Designer: Palimpsest Book Production Limited

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What It Was
George Pelecanos
Reagan Arthur Books / Little, Brown

Nominator: Keith Hayes

Designer: Keith Hayes
Art Director: Keith Hayes
Other Credits: Illustrations by Phil Pascuzzo

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What to Look for in Winter
Candia McWilliam
HarperCollins Publishers

Nominator: Richard Ljoenes

Designer: Richard Ljoenes
Art Director: Richard Ljoenes
Design Firm: HarperCollins Publishers
Other Credits: Jacket photograph by © Frederic Cirou/ Photoalto/Corbis

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What's Left of Me
Kat Zhang
HarperCollins Children's Books

Nominator: Erin Fitzsimmons

Designer: Erin Fitzsimmons
Art Director: Sasha Illingworth
Other Credits: Cover art by Maxime Quoilin

Submitted into 50 Covers

When My Name was Keoko
Linda Sue Park


Nominator: Carol Chu

Designer: Carol Chu

Submitted into 50 Covers

Where are the Utopian Visionaries?: Architecture of Social Exchange
Hansy Better Barraza (Editor)
Periscope

Nominator: Margarita Osipian

Designer: Project Projects
Art Director: Project Projects
Design Firm: Project Projects

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple
Little, Brown and Company

Nominator: Matt Tanner

Designer: Keith Hayes

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Who's Got The Money
Morgan St.James and Meredith Holland
Oak Tree Press

Nominator: Jeana Thompson

Designer: Jamie Runyon
Art Director: Billie Johnson
Design Firm: Reese-Winslow Designs
Other Credits: Interior by L.W.Rigsbee

Submitted into 50 Covers

Why Shrinkwrap a Cucumber?: The Complete Guide to Environmental Packaging
Steven Aldridge and Laurel Miller
Laurence King Publishers

Nominator:

Designer: Jacket Design: Kate Goodridge

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Wide White Space: The Way Beyond Art
Edited by Jon Sueda
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Nominator: William Drenttel

Designer: Stripe / Jon Sueda with Scott Massey

Submitted into 50 Books
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Wild Girls
Mary Stewart Atwell
Scribner

Nominator: Rex Bonomelli

Designer: Rex Bonomelli
Art Director: Rex Bonomelli

Submitted into 50 Covers

Wild Hope
Andrew Balmford
The University of Chicago Press

Nominator: Jill Shimabukuro

Designer: Isaac Tobin
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
Design Firm: The University of Chicago Press

Submitted into 50 Covers

Winning The Story Wars
Jonah Sachs
Harvard Business Review

Nominator: Drew Beam

Art Director: Drew Beam
Design Firm: Free Range

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WISE MEN
Stuart Nadler
Little, Brown and Company

Nominator: Amanda Ng

Designer: Matt Tanner
Other Credits: Custom typography by Dan Cassaro

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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

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Wo/Men at Work
Matthew Basso and Andrew Farnsworth, Judy Blunt, and Ralph Powell


Nominator: David Wolske

Designer: Andrew Farnsworth, David Wolske
Art Director: David Wolske
Design Firm: Red Butte Press
Other Credits: Illustrators: Laura Decker, Claire Taylor, David Wolske; Head Printer: Claire Taylor; Printers: Chris Dunsmore, Andrew Farnsworth, Dayna Kerns; Head Binder: Emily Tipps; Binders: Chris Dunsmore, Dayna Kerns

Submitted into 50 Books

Woes of the True Policeman
Roberto Bolano
FSG

Nominator: Thomas Ng

Designer: Charlotte Strick
Art Director: Charlotte Strick
Design Firm: FSG

Submitted into 50 Covers

Woodcut
Bryan Nash Gill
Princeton Architectural Press

Nominator: William Drenttel

Designer: Deb Wood and Paul Wagner

Submitted into 50 Books

Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
Sam Leith
Basic Books

Nominator: Nicole Caputo

Designer: Henry Sene Yee
Art Director: Nicole Caputo
Design Firm: Henry Sene Yee
Other Credits: Cover illustration by Henry Sene Yee

Submitted into 50 Covers

Working on Mars
William J. Clancey
The MIT Press

Nominator: Emily Gutheinz

Designer: Margarita Encomienda
Other Credits: Jim De Wolf, acquisitions editor. Kathy Caruso, manuscript editor Janet Rossi, production manager.

Submitted into 50 Covers

Wuftoom
Mary G. Thompson


Nominator: Carol Chu

Designer: n/a
Art Director: Carol Chu
Other Credits: Cover Illustration by Neil Swaab

Submitted into 50 Covers