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Calling All Book Designers: The 2009 Stiftung Buchkunst Competition is accepting entries

Marquand Books invites all US book design professionals to submit entries to Stiftung Buchkunst’s “Best Book Design from All Over the World,” a German international design competition awarding prizes at the annual Frankfurt Book Fair.

A jury of book design professionals will select the US entries to submit to Stiftung Buchkunst. An international jury will review all final US submissions, paying special attention to quality of typesetting, reproduction, printing, paper, and binding. Typography and graphic design as aesthetic elements of the book will also be examined.

Finalists will be juried in February 2009, followed by the exhibition during the 2009 Leipzig Book Fair and the exhibition “Book Art International” during the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair. All prizewinning book editions are archived and will be available for perusal at the foundation in Frankfurt.

Entries are limited to three books per individual designer. Please send two copies of each submission. Submission deadline is DECEMBER 15, 2008. Participation is free of charge.

Send two copies of each book with the following information to Marquand Books, STIFTUNG BUCHKUNST COMPETITION, 1402 Third Avenue, Suite 300, Seattle, WA 98101.

Author/Editor:
Title:
Publisher:
Designer:
Illustrator/Photographer:
Printer:
Bookbinder:
Price:

Sorry, submissions will not be returned. Finalists will be selected and featured on Marquand’s blog in early January 2009. Contact stiftungbuchkunst@marquand.com for more information.