Judging
We are pleased to announce JP Haynie, Creative Director / Partner - Actual Source, will serve as the chair of this year's competition!
" I am looking forward to returning to 50 Books | 50 Covers in 2025, this time as its Chair. The craft of book design and production is a culturally significant, centuries-old tradition that deserves to be recognized. Practitioners who in 2025 continue to thoughtfully design books, pick their materials, and oversee every detail of their production should, in my opinion, win awards. Book designers and publishers, please submit your books so we can champion your efforts and celebrate your successes." — JP Haynie, Creative Director / Partner, Actual Source (50 Books | 50 Covers Juror Chair)
Jurors for this competition will evaluate each work’s integrated design approach, including concept, innovation and visual elements such as typography, illustration, and/or information design.
In recent decades, jurors have included Antonio Alcalá, Michael Bierut, Andrew Blauvelt, Michael Carabetta, Arthur Cherry, Laura Coombs, Richard Eckersley, Vanessa Eckstein, Barbara Glauber, Carin Goldberg, Hilary Greenbaum, Jessica Helfand, Maricris Herrera, Jerry Herring, David High, Yasuyo Iguchi, Brian Johnson, Chip Kidd, Lisa Lucas, Eric Madsen, Peter Mendelsund, Jennifer Morla, Lars Müller, Silas Munro, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, Molly Renda, Jill Shimabukuro, Lucille Tenazas, Kimberly Varella, Kelly Walters, Cheryl Towler Weese, Jack Woody, Ramon Tejada, Renata Graw, Xiaoqing Wang, and many more.
Read what Michael Bierut had to say in the Design Week article, “‘Books remain stubbornly, thrillingly relevant’: the enduring value of book design” (January 2020), and The New Yorker, “Who Isn’t a Sucker for a Foldout?” (October 2020).
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JP Haynie, Creative Director / Partner, Actual Source JP Haynie is an American graphic designer and publisher based in Utah, USA; working internationally. He co-founded the design studio and publisher Actual Source with Davis Ngarupe in 2015. |
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Carolyn Thomas, Graphic Design Lead at The Frick Collection, New York, NY - Juror Carolyn Thomas is a Canadian graphic designer based in New York. Currently, she holds the Graphic Design Lead position at The Frick Collection, where her work focuses on developing the visual identity system and institution-wide graphic design program. Previously, she worked as a freelance graphic designer in Berlin, Germany, and for the studios Pure+Applied, Pentagram Design, and Office of Luke Bulman. Carolyn graduated from Parsons School of Design (BFA, Communication Design) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc, Culture & Society). She is also a member of the AIGA NY Chapter Board of Directors. Carolyn is passionate about maps and interested in issues of spatiality and identity design.
Gabriela Namie, Visual Lead at Google, Brooklyn, NY - Juror Gabriela Namie is a Brazilian-Japanese designer and art director based in New York. She is currently the Visual Lead at Google’s Seed Studio, where she balances hands-on design with creative direction, shaping the vision for multiple projects.
Ghazal Foroutan, Designer and Educator at Peelē Studio & California State University San Marcos, Aliso Viejo, California - Juror Ghazal Foroutan is an Iranian graphic designer and educator. She graduated with her BFA in Graphic Design in 2017 from Alzahra University in Tehran, Iran. She worked for Studio Shizaru for two years before moving to the USA in 2018. She graduated with her MFA in Graphic Design at Oklahoma State University in 2021. Her thesis was a collection of visual explorations in response to Iranian women’s rights. Ghazal's creative pursuits are characterized by a self-driven approach with a keen social-political focus, particularly advocating for Design for Good initiatives and women's rights. She founded her own studio/practice called "Peelē" in which she specializes in typography, illustration, and branding. She was recently awarded by PRINT magazine as one of the New Visual Designers class of 2024; 15 artists under 30. She is currently an assistant professor of Graphic Design at California State University San Marcos.
Hassan Rahim, Creative Director at 12:01 AM, Brooklyn, NY - Juror Hassan Rahim (1987— ) is a creative director and high school dropout from Santa Ana, California, currently living and working in New York City. In opposition to culture’s obsession with speed, Rahim’s output remains guarded — incubating as long as necessary while he continues to build a body of work dealing with monomania, memory, and mortality. Hassan owns and operates anti-disciplinary creative studio 12:01.
Scott Vander Zee, Graphic Designer / Typeface Designer, New York, NY - Juror Scott's work is focused on book and editorial design, systems, custom typefaces, and other typographic solutions. Scott’s work has received various design awards, including: The Best Book Design from All Over the World ( Golden Letter ), The Most Beautiful Swiss Books, The Most Beautiful German Books, and AIGA’s 50 Books / 50 Covers. Several of his typefaces have also been featured in contemporary type design publications ( e.g.: ECAL Graphic Design, Shoplifters: New Type Design ( Vol. 1 and 2) , New Aesthetics 2, and Support Independent Type ( Vol. 1 and 2 ) ). In 2024, Scott was invited to jury the international book design competition The Best Book Design from All Over the World, in Leipzig, Germany, as well as the Chinese national book design competition The Beauty of Books in China, in Shanghai, China. Scott is an Adjunct Assistant Professor within Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Design, where he offers courses primarily focused on contemporary practices in book and editorial design, systems, and typeface design. Occasionally, he also teaches BFA courses at Parsons—The New School. |
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