The Alcuin Society

Alcuin Society Book Design Awards30th Annual Awards for
Excellence in Book Design
in Canada

for books published in
2011Catalogue (PDF)

This Year's Judges

 


Book Design Awards 2011

The fundamental principle of the judging process is that each book must be considered as a total entity. The judges examine every aspect of each book, including the dust jacket, binding, endpapers, half-title page, copyright page, title page, page layout, typography, integration of illustrations, chapter openings, running heads, reproduction of illustrations, clarity of printing, choice of paper, footnotes, and bibliographical references.

The Alcuin Society is grateful to the judges for volunteering their time and considerable talent:

  • Stan Bevington, CM, DFA
    Printer, publisher, professor
    Coach House Books (Toronto, Ontario)
  • Ingrid Paulson
    Freelance book designer (Toronto, Ontario)
  • Bonne Zabolotney
    Book designer, typographer, professor
    Dean of Design and Dynamic Media
    Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, BC)

This year's judges selected 35 winning titles from 252 entries, from 9 provinces and 103 publishers. This year's winning books are:

Children
First prize: MICHAEL SOLOMON, designer of A Few Blocks, by Cybèle Young (Groundwood Books)

Second prize: MARIE-ÈVE BOISVERT, designer of Billy Stuart, by Alain M. Bergeron & Sampar (Samuel Parent) (Éditions Michel Quintin)

Third prize: TERESA BUBELA, designer of Wellington's Rainy Day, by Carolyn Beck & Brooke Kerrigan (Orca Book Publishers)

Honourable mention: MICHAEL SOLOMON, designer of City Numbers, by Joanne Schwartz & Matt Beam (Groundwood Books).


Limited Editions
First prize (tie): MICHAEL TOROSIAN, designer of Steichen: Eduard et Voulangis, by Michael Torosian & Howard Greenberg (Howard Greenberg Gallery / Lumiere Press)

First prize (tie): NICOLAS MÉNARD, designer of Colorimétrie, by Nicolas Ménard (Nicolas Ménard)

First prize (tie): ELIZABETH BEAUDOIN, designer of Bleu Marin, Book of Poetry, ou, Recueil de poésie, by Elizabeth Beaudoin (Elizabeth Beaudoin)

Honourable mentions: GEORGE WALKER, designer of The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson, by George A. Walker (George A. Walker), and
EMANUEL COHEN, designer of PTTx Archive & Correspondance, by Emanuel Cohen (Emanuel Cohen).


Pictorial
First prize: JESSICA SULLIVAN, designer of Kesu' : the Art and Life of Doug Cranmer, by Jennifer Kramer (Douglas & McIntyre / Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia / University of Washington Press)

Second prize: PETER COCKING, designer of Fred Herzog Photographs, by Claudia Gochmann, Sarah Milroy, Jeff Wall & Douglas Coupland (Douglas & McIntyre)

Third prize: NICOLE LAFOND, designer of Richard-Max Tremblay: Portrait, by André Lamarre (les éditions du passage)

Honourable mention: JENNIFER LUM, designer of Two Generals, by Scott Chantler (McClelland & Stewart).

Poetry
First prize: ANDREW STEEVES, designer of Curious Masonry, by Christopher Patton (Gaspereau Press Printers & Publishers)

Second prize: LEAH SPRINGATE, designer of Folk, by Jacob McArthur Mooney (McClelland & Stewart)

Third prize: MARK GOLDSTEIN, designer of Killdeer, by Phil Hall (BookThug)

Honourable mentions: MARVIN HARDER, designer of Wild Horses, by Rob McLennan, and
ANDREW STEEVES, designer of Incitements, by Sean Howard (Gaspereau Press Printers & Publishers).


Prose Fiction
First prize: PETER COCKING, designer of The Man Who Killed, by Fraser Nixon (Douglas & McIntyre)

Second prize: CS RICHARDSON, designer of Natural Order, by Brian Francis (Doubleday Canada)

Third prize (tie): CS RICHARDSON, designer of Various Positions, by Martha Schabas (Doubleday Canada)

Third prize (tie): LEIGH-ANNE MULLOCK, designer of Tubers, by Mark Jowett (Read Leaf)

Honourable mentions: MARIKE PARADIS, designer of À toi, by Kim Thúy & Pascal Janovjak (Libre Expression), and
PETER COCKING, designer of The Return, by Dany Laferrière (Douglas & McIntyre).


Prose Non-Fiction
First prize: UNDERLINE STUDIO, designers of Blast/Counterblast, edited by Anthony Elms & Steve Reinke (Mercer Union/Whitewalls)

Second prize: JESSICA SULLIVAN, designer of King, by Allan Levine (Douglas & McIntyre)

Third prize: ALAN BROWNOFF, designer of The Sasquatch at Home, by Eden Robinson (The University of Alberta Press / Canadian Literature Centre)

Honourable mention: ANDREW STEEVES, designer of The Shell of the Tortoise by Don McKay (Gaspereau Press Printers & Publishers).

Prose Non-Fiction Illustrated
First prize: ROBERTO DOSIL, designer of Selling Canada, by Daniel Francis (Stanton Atkins & Dosil)

Second prize: JESSICA SULLIVAN, designer of Undesirables, by Ali Kazimi (Douglas & McIntyre)

Third prize: NAOMI MACDOUGALL, designer of Prairie, a Natural History, by Candace Savage (Greystone Books)

Honourable mention: DEREK BARNETT, designer of Vancouver Anthology, edited by Stan Douglas (Talonbooks / OR Gallery).


Reference
First prize: DIANE (YEE) ROBERTSON, designer of Hoopla, the Art of Unexpected Embroidery, by Leanne Prain (Arsenal Pulp Press)

Second prize: JEFF KULAK, designer of The Learn to Speak Series, by John Crossingham & Ann-Marie Williams (Owlkids Books)

Third prize: MIKE MOULAND, designer of Republic of Doyle, by Kerri MacDonald (Flanker Press).


View this list of winners as a PDF press release.		    
 

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