New Vienna Now
Sagmeister Inc., New York, New York, 2010
Every year since 1923 AIGA has organized its juried “50 Books/50Covers” competition, which recognizes excellence in book design and production. The winners of the most recent competition, which covers books published in 2010, provides a snapshop of the work of a global community of designers and agencies. A book cover, after all, is nothing so much as an exercise in branding, something to keep in mind while browsing the collection.
The Marvelous Museum
Chronicle Books, Oakland, California, 2010
Communist Manifesto
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., New York, New York, 2010
Art of McSweeney’s
McSweeney’s Publishing, San Francisco, California, 2010
Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead
Meat and Potatoes, Burbank, California, 2010
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 2010
The Man Behind the Nose
Meat and Potatoes, Burbank, California, 2010
McSweeney’s Issue 36
McSweeney’s Publishing, San Francisco, California, 2010
Stephen Dixon: What Is All This?
Unflown, Seattle, Washington, 2010
Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms
Matsumoto Incorporated, New York, New York, 2010
Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes
Pentagram Design, San Francisco, California, 2010
Designing Obama
Post Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2010
DIRTY BABY
Prestel Publishing, New York, New York, 2010
Handcrafted Modern: At Home With Mid-Century Designers
Volume Inc., San Francisco, California, 2010
Helvetica and the New York City Subway
Blue Pencil Editions, New York, New York, 2010
Mah Jongg: Crak, Bam, Dot!
Pentagram Design, New York, New York, 2010
Micah Lexier: I’m Thinking of a Number
SMALL, Toronto, Ontario, 2010
Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them
Headcase Design, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, 2010
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
McCall Associates, New York, New York, 2010
PAR
Blok Design, Toronto, Ontario, 2010
Simple Times
Grand Central Publishing, New York, New York, 2010
Stop the Violence
Thirst, Chicago, Illinois, 2010
Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color and Space
Rebeca Méndez Studio, Los Angeles, California, 2010
Tanguy Calder: Between Surrealism and Abstraction
McCall Associates, New York, New York, 2010
White Green
Kazakoff Design AB, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010
1st Fl 111 N State St
HeyJ Min, Chicago, Illinois, 2010
BMW Culture
Sagmeister Inc., Munich, Germany, 2010
The Collected Writings of Steven B. Sample, Ph.D.
AdamsMorioka, Inc., Beverly Hills, California, 2010
Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes
Andrew Sloat, New York, New York, 2010
869 New Uses for Old Things
Real Simple, New York, New York, 2010
México Ciudad Futura
Blok Design, Toronto, Ontario, 2010
Tartine Bread
Chronicle Books, San Francisco, California, 2010
This Is NPR
Design Army, Washington, District of Columbia, 2010
Water Matters: A Design Manual for Water Conservation in Buildings
Pentagram Design, New York, New York, 2010
Along a Long Road
Viva & Co., Toronto, Ontario, 2010
826CHI Compendium
Mollie Edgar Design, Chicago, Illinois, 2010
826DC: Get Used to the Seats
OMG, New York, New York, 2010
The Art of Immersion
W. W. Norton & Co., New York, New York, 2010
Brave New World
Milan Zrnic, New York, New York, 2010
The Crow’s Vow
Salamander Hill Design, Elgin, Quebec, 2010
Dan Fante series
HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, 2010
Doctor Zhivago
Pantheon Books, New York, New York, 2010
The End of Everything
Little, Brown and Company, New York, New York, 2010
Everything Matters!
Isaac Tobin, Chicago, Illinois, 2010
Exley
Keenan Design, London, England, 2010
Fadeaway Girl
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., New York, New York, 2010
Feathers
Basic Books, New York, New York, 2010
The First Husband
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., New York, New York, 2010
Foucault
Vintage/Pantheon Books, New York, New York, 2010
Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years
St. Martin’s Press, Brooklyn, New York, 2010
It's well worth visiting the AIGA Design Archives to browse the gallery of book covers, which includes inside views and discussion of how the designs met client requirements. Until February 23, 2012 the winners will also be on view at the AIGA National Design Center in New York.