Carbon wins gold
February 25, 2013
The Dutch photo book Cette montagne c'est moi by Witho Worms won a gold medal at the Best Book Design from all over the World contest in Leipzig, Germany. There were honorary mentions for two other books from the Netherlands, Found Footage. Cinema Exposed and An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth and More... In Leipzig an international jury of seven book design experts judged 575 books from 32 countries and awarded nine prizes and five honorary mentions.
Cette montagne c'est moi presents the photos of slag heaps that Witho Worms made in a number of countries in Europe over a period of six years. He made his photo prints using the carbon print technique, continuously using carbon that he took with him from the very heap he photographed. In the book the photos are printed on black paper using a double layer of white ink. The book was designed by Hans Gremmen, who also published it under his Fw: Books imprint.
Found Footage. Cinema Exposed, compiled by Marente Bloemheuvel, Giovanna Fossati and Jaap Guldemond, was published to accompany the opening exhibition of the new EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam. The book was designed by Joseph Plateau and published by EYE in collaboration with Amsterdam University Press.
An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth and More... is dedicated to the oil panels of Thomas Raat. These paintings refer to the predominantly abstract imagery of cover designs of popular 'egghead' paperbacks published from the late 1940s until the early 70s. It's publisher is Onomatopee, Eindhoven and it's designer Edwin van Gelder of Mainstudio.
The award winning ceremony will take place at the Leipzig Book Fair on March 15.
These three books are part of the selection of Best Dutch Book Designs 2012, which was simultaneously the Dutch entry for the contest in Leipzig. Later in the year the Best Dutch Book Designs will be exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and at other venues in the Netherlands and elsewhere.
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2012
February 22, 2013
Today is the day The Best Dutch Book Designs of 2012 are being made public.
This year's judges were Ada Lopes Cardozo (formerly teacher at the Hague Royal Academy of Arts), Johan Holterman (production advisor at Graphiques, Nijmegen), Rob van den Nieuwenhuizen (designer at Drawswords, Amsterdam), Marlies Visser (designer at Studio Marlies Visser, Haarlem) and Peter de Winter (publisher at 010 Publishers, Rotterdam). Out of 305 submissions they chose 33 books to be the Best Dutch Book Designs 2012.
This selection is at the same time the Dutch submission to Best Book Design from all over the World in Leipzig, Germany, the international beauty contest for the book. Later in the year the Best Dutch Book Designs 2012 will be on show at various venues in the Netherlands and abroad, the exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam to begin with.
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2012 are made possible due to generous support from paper merchants Antalis (Almere), collective copyright office BNO/Pictoright (Amsterdam) and L. van Heek Textiles (Losser), manufacturer of book binding materials.
THE BEST DUTCH BOOK DESIGNS 2012
Karina Schaapman – Het Muizenhuis. Sam & Julia in het Theater
Sonja van Hamel, Yolanda Huntelaar for publishers Rubinstein
Peter Terrin – Post Mortem
Studio Ron van Roon for publishers De Arbeiderspers
Radicale Gemeenplaatsen. Europese Architectuur uit Vlaanderen
Joris Kritis, Julie Peeters for the Vlaams Architectuurinstituut
Robert McCarter (ed.) – Wiel Arets. Autobiographical References
Irma Boom Office (Irma Boom, Sanne van de Goor) for publishers Birkhäuser
Jan van Adrichem, Adi Martis (ed.) – Stedelijk Collection Reflections
Mevis & Van Deursen with collaboration of Eva Heisterkamp, Lu Liang, Tabea Feuerstein for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, nai010 publishers
Erik Kessels (ed.) – In almost every Picture # 11
Erik Kessels for KesselsKramer Publishing
Piet Schreuders – Furore # 21. Het Parijs van Le Ballon Rouge
Piet Schreuders for Stichting Furore
THE BEST DUTCH BOOK DESIGNS 2012
J. Eijkelboom – Verzamelde Gedichten
Steven van der Gaauw for publishers De Arbeiderspers
Paul Kooiker, Willem van Zoetendaal (ed.) – Paul Kooiker. Heaven
Willem van Zoetendaal for Van Zoetendaal Publishers
Camiel van Winkel – During the Exhibition the Gallery Will Be Closed
Sam de Groot for publishers Valiz
Kas Oosterhuis (ed.) – Hyperbody. First Decade of Interactive Architecture
Mind Design (Michal Ejdys, Niels Schrader) for publishers Jap Sam Books
Peter Martens – Few Loving Voices
[d3æm] JAM grafisch ontwerp (John van Leeuwen) for publishers post editions
Marente Bloemheuvel, Giovanna Fossati, Jaap Guldemond (ed.) – Found Footage. Cinema Exposed
Joseph Plateau grafisch ontwerpers for Amsterdam University Press, EYE Film Institute Netherlands
THE BEST DUTCH BOOK DESIGNS 2012
Erik Kessels, Anthon Beeke (ed.) – The Mind is a Muscle. Huub van der Put
Erik Kessels for publishers ÈposHouse
Sigrid Calon – To the Extend of / \ | & -
Sigrid Calon for Sigrid Calon
Witho Worms – Cette Montagne, c’est moi
Hans Gremmen for publishers Fw: Books
Scheltens & Abbenes. Unfolded
Julia Born & Laurenz Brunner for publishers Kodoji Press
Diana Scherer – Nurture Studies
Willem van Zoetendaal for Van Zoetendaal Publishers
Marnie Slater, Edward Clydesdale Thomson (ed.) – As if an Entrance is over there
Sandra Kassenaar for Lecturis Publishing
Marlene Dumas, Rineke Dijkstra, Marijke van Warmerdam (ed.) – Look. Ed! Images from the Archive of Ed van der Elsken
Mevis & Van Deursen for Annet Gelink Gallery
Cara Phillips – Singular Beauty
Hans Gremmen for publishers Fw: Books
THE BEST DUTCH BOOK DESIGNS 2012
Misha Mengelberg – Enkele Regels in de Dierentuin
Piet Gerards Ontwerpers for publishers Huis Clos
Tim Enthoven – The Tiny Tim. The Early Years of Tim Enthoven, 1994-2003
HeyHeyHey (& Haas) (Erik Sjouerman, Elske van der Putten) for MU, Tim Enthoven
Gielijn Escher, Paul Mertz, Paul van Yperen – Frans Mettes Affichevirtuoos
Gielijn Escher, Chang Chi Lan-Ying (interior) for publishers De Buitenkant
Thomas Raat – An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth and More…
Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder) for publishers Onomatopee
Sanne van den Elzen – Salon
Cobbenhagen Hendriksen, Sanne van den Elzen for Sanne van den Elzen, Collectief Überhaupt
Jan Dirk van der Burg (ed.) – Censorship Daily. Netherlands – Iran
Cobbenhagen Hendriksen for Jan Dirk van der Burg
Dubravka Sekulic – Glotzt Nicht so Romantisch! On Extralegal Space in Belgrade
Ziga Testen for Jan van Eyck Academy
THE BEST DUTCH BOOK DESIGNS 2012
Gal Kirn, Dubravka Sekulic, Ziga Testen (ed.) – Surfing the Black. Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema… and it’s Transgressive Moments
Ziga Testen for Jan van Eyck Academy
Freek Lomme, Andrés Ramírez Gaviria (ed.) – between forms of representation and presentation
Lesley Moore for publishers Onomatopee
Cobbenhagen Hendriksen – Identity De Hallen Haarlem. Inventory (2007-2012)
Cobbenhagen Hendriksen for Cobbenhagen Hendriksen, De Hallen Haarlem
Sikkens Prize Mondrian Lecture 2012
Harmen Liemburg for Sikkens Foundation
 – Surfing the Black. Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema… and it’s Transgressive Moments
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Binders Hexspoor present a decade of their Best Dutch Book Designs
January 21, 2013
Binders Hexspoor of Boxtel published a book in which their Best Dutch Book Designs dating from the years 2002 to 2011 were brought together.
Hexspoor is a specialist in soft cover books. As such it is a Best Dutch Book Designs regular. Out of a ten years period Hexspoor compiled sixty awarded books in a goodwill publication. Together these books give a lively and thorough impression of the various finishing solutions that Hexspoor is able to provide. This book presents no less than thirty different ones.
He who leafs through the book from the front to the back cover, will only see spreads with images. While she who is leafing from the back to the front, will see spreads with text only. Just the same was the case with the Best Dutch Book Designs catalogue of 1989. Designed by Irma Boom, this catalogue was finished by Hexspoor.
The flexible cover shows an image in linen that was put together using a new digital weaving process.
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 on show
January 20, 2013
During the upcoming months the Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 will be on show at several venues in the Netherlands and abroad. These are the exhibitions that are definite:
> Amstelveen, printers Lenoirschuring, from February 8 onwards.
Earlier in the year the Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 have been on show at:
> Leipzig Book Fair, 15-18 March
> Frankfurt Book Fair, 10-14 October
> Izmir, Yasar University, 18 October-5 November (The Best of Dutch Book Design)
> Amsterdam, Pakhuis De Zwijger, Papier Hier, 17 November
> Tuyap, Istanbul Book Fair, 17-20 November (The Best of Dutch Book Design)
> Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 17 October-25 November
> Mumbai, India, Dutch Design Workspace, 10 December-10 January 2013 (The Best of Dutch Book Design)
> Leeuwarden, Tresoar, 14 December 2012-1 February 2013
> Vienna, Neue Hauptbücherei, 4 December 2012-9 February 2013
> The Hague, Museum Meermanno | Huis van het Boek, 1 November 2012-24 February 2013
> Tokyo, Toppan Printing Museum, 17 November 2012-24 February 2013
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2012: wanna submit?
December 10, 2012
It's registration time for The Best Dutch Book Designs 2012. The registration period will run until January 8, 2013.
E-books and book-apps
Most of the time our judges are in for a bit of adventure. If the quality of a submission gave them the urge, they've always been willing to stretch the boundaries of the book. In the past they occasionnally admitted annual reports into the Best Dutch Book Designs. Or a desk agenda. Or a promotional brochure. Even an inflatable bed once has been a Best Dutch Book Design.
And now one can vey well imagine our judges selecting an e-book or a book-related app into the Best Dutch Book Designs.
So don't hesitate to submit such a 'book'. Notwithstanding the fact that it's paperless, it could very well be the vehicle of a development that the Best Dutch Book Designs judges gladly might want to signalize.
Now traveling: The Best
of Dutch Book Design
October 18, 2012
The very same week that the Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 exhibition opened at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, another Best Dutch Book Designs show came out into the open: The Best of Dutch Book Design. This traveling exhibition, an initiative of Premsela – The Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion, opens today at Yasar University in Izmir, Turkey. In November The Best of Dutch Book Design will move to the Istanbul Book Fair and in December to Dutch Design Workspace in Mumbai. For 2013 an extensive tour is being negotiated.
The Best of Dutch Book Design presents some forty Best Dutch Book Designs. The compact and easy-to-handle design comes from the Amsterdam-based Studio Laurens van Wieringen. The complete selection of 2011 is on show, to which a dozen Best Dutch Book Designs from the years 2006 to 2010 are being added.
In bringing about The Best of Dutch Book Design Premsela cooperated with BNO/Pictoright, the Dutch Foundation for Literature, SICA – Dutch Centre for International Cultural Activities, and Stichting De Best Verzorgde Boeken.
The Stedelijk shows the Best Dutch Book Designs in a new setting
October 16, 2012
In the new wing of the recently reopened Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, with the facade of the old museum building as a backdrop, the Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 will be on show until November 25.
Paul Kuipers and Herman Verkerk of EventArchitectuur contributed a new design for the yearly exhibition that is a pleasure to look at. Some of the books on show are to be purchased at the museum shop. Just like the catalogue The Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 De Best Verzorgde Boeken (€ 27,50).
On Tuesday October 16, right after the museum closed it's doors for the public, the invitees for the exhibition opening crowded the spacious entrance hall. In the Tejin-auditorium they listened to speeches from Carolien Glazenburg, curator of the Stedelijk, Rob Huisman, board member of The Best Dutch Book Designs and Tim Vermeulen, program manager Designworld at Premsela – The Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion. He introduced the new traveling exhibition The Best of Dutch Book Design, a fresh initiative of Premsela. Just Enschedé, director of The Best Dutch Book Designs presented the new catalogue, that was designed by Meeusontwerpt.
The Best Dutch Book Designs back at the Stedelijk
August 28, 2012
Three weeks after the opening of the completely renovated and extended museum by Queen Beatrix the Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 will be on show at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
The exhibition will start at October 17 and will be running until November 25.
For the Stedelijk Museum and The Best Dutch Book Designs this puts an end to an eight-year period of joint wandering through Amsterdam, necessitated by the renovation of the old museum building. For five years we found a home at the Stedelijk Post CS building near the Central Station, one time we joined forces with the Special Collections Library of the Amsterdam University and the two most recent years the Best Dutch Book Designs have been a part of the Temporary Stedelijk shows in the old museum building on Paulus Potterstraat.
Praise for books from the Netherlands
February 24, 2012
This year's judging for Best Book Design from all over the World in Leipzig resulted in triple praise for books from the Netherlands, all three of them belonging to the Best Dutch Book Designs 2011.
The book Utilité by Ellen Korth, in which forty devotees of fine needlework are being presented, was awarded a silver medal.
There was a bronze medal for What we Wear, the graduation project of Pieter van den Boogert at the Hague academy, tracking the globe-covering itinerary of our clothes.
An honorable mention went to Gomorrah Girl, a documentary of Italian photographer Valerio Spada on the fate of a Neapolitan girl.
Speaking about graphic design, the first and the last book are of the same hand, that of -SYB- (brand name for designer Sybren Kuiper from the Hague).
Best Book Design from all over the World is the most important international beauty contest for the book, Stiftung Buchkunst, keeper of the German Most Beautiful Books contest, being it's organiser. www.stiftung-buchkunst.de
An international jury of seven saw 540 entries from 31 countries, all national Best Book Designs selections. Save for the first prize, the Golden Letter, there are 1 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze medals to be had – and 5 honourable mentions.
The photograph shows the Dutch Leipzig awardees Pieter van den Boogert and Ellen Korth, together with Astrid Vorstermans, member of the Best Dutch Book Designs jury. The photo was taken during the award ceremony on March 16 at the Leipzig Book Fair.
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2011
February 17, 2012
The Best Dutch Book Designs selection of 2011 consists of thirty books, all released last year.
This selection was put together by a jury whose members are Jan de Boer (designer at Studio Jan de Boer, Amsterdam), Frederike Huygen (design historian, Amsterdam), Fokko Tamminga (printers ANDO, The Hague) and Astrid Vorstermans (Valiz, books and cultural projects, Amsterdam). In all they judged 338 submitted books.
In the autumn the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will exhibit the Best Dutch Book Designs 2011. Simultaneously the catalogue The Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 De Best Verzorgde Boeken will be out. Later there will be more exhibitions, in the Netherlands as well as abroad.
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 are also the Dutch entry to Best Book Design from all over the World, the international beauty contest for the book, held annually in Leipzig. The results of this competition are expected by February 24.
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 are generously supported by paper suppliers Antalis (Almere), collective rights organisation BNO/Pictoright (Amsterdam) and L. van Heek Textiles (Losser), manufacturer of book binding materials.
For a look at The Best Dutch Book Designs 2011, you only need to press the buttons Archive and Selections.