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Independent publishers and baby presses stormed this year’s British Book Design & Assembly Awards, claiming a amazing 16 of the 18 awards on the night....
Independent publishers triumphed at the British Book Design & Assembly Awards aftermost night (16th November), with 16 of the 18 prizes dispensed at the awards dinner, captivated at the Millenium Hotel in Mayfair, axial London, activity to indie publishers and baby presses. The all-embracing award, for Book of the Year, was won by Leslie Gerry Editions’ Havana, which additionally triumphed in the Photographic Books, Art & Architecture Monographs category. The above is contested by the winners of the added 17 awards accustomed out on the night.
While a able assuming for abate lists may accept been anticipated, with abounding of the awards—including Self-Published Book, Digitally Printed Book, and Limited Copy & Fine Binding—being a added accustomed agriculture arena for alcove presses, the admeasurement of independents’ dominance, pocketing added than five-sixths of the prizes on offer, arguably reflects a adorning of the publishing landscape. Abounding awards went to beginning lists that are design-led and prioritise the concrete aspect of a publication, with aerial assembly ethics and offbeat formats.
Three such publishers: Owl & Dog Playbooks, which won the Children’s Trade: 0-8 Years class with The Adventures of 3 Bears, authored by the press’ co-founders Yeonju Yang and Claudio Ripol; Hoxton Mini Press, champ of the Brand/Series Identity acreage with its Tales from the City photobooks; and Little Island Press, which bagged the Literature accolade for its copy of Gordon Lish’s White Plains, epitomised such a about-face appear design-centred presses on the night.
There were additionally triumphs for beyond indies, with Thames & Hudson bagging two awards: the additional kids’ class (9-16 Years) was won by Claudia Boldt and Eleanor Meredith’s Think and Make Like an Artist, while Lucinda Hawksley’s Bitten by Witch Fever won the Trade Illustrated prize. Walker Books best up Educational Book with Richard Platt and James Brown’s A World of Information, while Scribe’s accouter for Kayla Rae Whitaker’s The Animators anchored the Best Jacket/Cover Design. The Folio Society—a three-time champ at aftermost year’s awards, with the all-embracing Book of the Year amid that haul—had to achieve for a sole celebration in 2017: the Scholarly, Academic & Reference gong went to Robert Hooke’s Micrographia.
Of the awards absurd to be afflicted by the big publishers, Anikst Design’s bilingual Kantor’s Gems took the Self-Published title; Hurtwood Press advertisement Taking Measure by Neil Folberg won the Digitally Printed prize; Exhibition Catalogues was won by Boss Print’s accessory to an exhibition by Maryam Eisler, Searching for Eve in the American West; and Winter, a abundant letterpress amalgamation advised and typeset by duke by Jamie Murphy for The Salvage Press, won Limited Copy & Fine Binding. Best Student Book went to Handy Tandra of the University of the West of England, for a beheld album of rapper Kanye West’s output, blue-blooded Kanye—fitting for a artist abounding banter for his ego.That’s not to say there were not big-brand triumphs: Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw’s Universal (Allen Lane) and Isabel Greenberg’s The One Hundred Nights of Hero (Cape) gave Penguin Random House a brace of awards, in the Lifestyle Illustrated and Graphic Novels sectors respectively.
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