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28th Annual Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design

by Dan
Design & Typography + Events + Vancouver / October 19, 2010

This Thursday (October 21st) is the Vancouver presentation of the The Alcuin Society's annual Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and we're really proud to say that speaker at this year's ceremony is none other than Chronicle Books' Creative Director Michael Carabetta. Michael will be giving a talk about Chronicle and "Seeing Things Differently".

The award-winning books from this year's design competition will also be available for viewing before (and after) the evening's events. As the event in Vancouver is free and open to the public, be sure to invite your book loving friends to come! 

2009 Alcuin Award Winners Ceremony, hosted by Emily Carr University
6:45pm, Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Room 301, South Building
MC: Roberto Dosil (CCSP Press, Vancouver)
Speaker: Michael Carabetta (Chronicle Books, San Francisco)

Under the Covers: Reviewing the Covers of 2009

by Dan
Design & Typography + News / January 27, 2010

Tonight is the BPPA's annual review of the best and worst book covers of the year.

Alan Jones, Senior Designer at HarperCollins Canada, was scheduled to have been one of the panellists, but sadly he had to drop out at the last minute. He is being replaced by freelance deisgner and advertising copywriter David A. Gee and umm... me.

Other (eminently qualified) panellists include freelance designer Ingrid Paulson (formerly Art Director at Raincoast Books), Terri Nimmo Senior Designer at Random House Canada, and Steven Beattie Review Editor at The Quill & Quire. This unruly rabble will be moderated by David Ward of McClelland & Stewart.

The event is 6:30-8:30 pm at The Arts and Letters Club in Toronto. It's free for BPPA Members, $20.00 for non-members.

For more information go to the BPPA's event page.

Come heckle.

P+P+Z Best Cover of 2009

by Dan
Fiction + Humour / December 23, 2009

After several weeks of voting, Amazon customers have chosen the Best Book Cover of 2009: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, cover designed by Doogie Horner!

Congratulations to Doogie and publisher Quirk Books!

See all 60 of Amazon's nominees.