Center for Book Arts Whitman exhibition catalog wins AIGA Award!

Thrilled to announce some great news! The catalog produced for the

exhibition entitled Walt Whitman’s Words: Inspiring Artists Today at the

Center for Book Arts has won an AIGA award!

The exhibition catalog has been selected by the American Institute of

Graphic Arts (AIGA) in its 50 Books / 50 Covers competition. According

to the AIGA website, this survey of book design represents perhaps

the longest-standing legacy in American graphic design. Beginning in

1923, the “Fifty Books of the Year” program has been a time-honored

competition to identify the 50 best-designed books and book covers of

2019.

This is the second AIGA award received for an exhibition catalog that I

have collaborated on - the first award was for the Artists’ Books catalog

produced for the Brooklyn Museum exhibit of the same name I curated

held in 2000. Information about the catalogs is available online in the

AIGA Design Archives, an excellent online resource for those interested

in book design. 

A great big congratulations to the Center for Book Arts staff including

Corina Reynolds and Roni Gross and all those who helped create the

award winning catalog. A great big thank you to all those

supporters who helped fund this publication! 

DEIRDRE Lawrence