Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence 2013
The Alcuin Society has announced the winners of its 31st annual Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. The winning books will be exhibited 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 Canada, in nine provinces. Exhibition venues will be posted on the Alcuin Society website. The books will also be entered in the international book design competition in Leipzig, Germany in February 2014. Awards will be given out this fall in both Toronto and Vancouver. This year's judges, Marvin Harder, Naomi MacDougall, and William Rueter, selected 41 winning titles from 236 entries, from nine provinces and 112 publishers; Mr. Rueter was presented with the 6th Robert R. Reid Award and Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Book Arts in Canada.
Handfuls of Bone
Love and the Mess We’re In
When I Was Small
Canadian Folk Art to 1950
Black
The Blondes
People Park
Lazy Bastardism
Essays & Reviews on Contemporary Poetry
Tower of Babble, The
Sins, Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC
Game Plan
A Social History of Sport in Alberta
Afternoon Tea
A Timeless Tradition
Arnaud Maggs
Identification
Out of the Wood
Selwyn Pullan
Photographing Mid-Century West Coast Modernism
Wedding in Fire Country
Form of Forms
Matter of Life and Death or Something, A
Maidenhead
The Emperor of Paris
Rob Feenie's Casual Classics
Everyday Recipes for Family and Friends