The Alcuin Society announced the winners of its 36th annual competition, The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, on Saturday, March 17, 2018. Awards will be officially presented in the fall in Toronto and Vancouver.
We were excited to see so many BC-published books on the list!
- Designers Teresa Bubela and Mark Hoffmann received honourable mention in the Children category for You Can Read, by Helaine Becker (Orca Book Publishers).
- Figure 1’s creative director, Jessica Sullivan, received honourable mention in the Pictorial category for We’ll All Become Stories, by Rebecca Basciano … [et al.] (Figure 1 Publishing).
- Jessica Sullivan also received first prize in the Prose Illustrated category for They Desire a Better Country | Ils désirent une patrie meilleure, by Lawrence Scanlan (Figure 1 Publishing).
- Designer Lara Minja received second prize in the same category for The Language of Family, edited by Michelle van der Merwe (Royal BC Museum).
- Naomi MacDougall received honourable mention in the Prose Non-Fiction category for The Orwell Tapes, by Stephen Wadhams (Locarno Press).
- Natalie Olsen received honourable mention in the Reference category for The Okanagan Table, by Rod Butters (Figure 1 Publishing).
The winning books will be entered in the international book design competition in Leipzig, Germany in February 2019. They will be exhibited worldwide: in Germany at the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs; in Japan, at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, in conjunction with the Tokyo International Book Fair; and in almost every province of Canada.