“Every year we get to see the incredible talent, ingenuity, and knowledge of university press design and production departments on full display.”
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) announced the selections for its 2020 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. The eighty-four outstanding examples of university press publications are currently on virtual display at https://design.up.hcommons.org/. Information on this year’s traveling exhibit will be announced later in summer 2020.
Now in its fifty-fifth year, this show honors the university publishing community’s design and production professionals. It recognizes achievement in design, production, and manufacture of books, jackets, covers, and journals, and also serves as a focus of discussion and a source of ideas for intelligent, creative, and resourceful publishing.
Open to AUPresses member publishers worldwide, this year’s competition attracted more than 650 submissions, all published during 2019, in these categories: scholarly typographic books, scholarly illustrated books, trade typographic books, trade illustrated books, poetry and literature books, reference books, journals, and jackets and covers.
“The AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show is one of the oldest design shows around,” said Joel W. Coggins, design and production manager at University of Pittsburgh Press and chair of the Book, Jacket, and Journal Show Committee. “Every year we get to see the incredible talent, ingenuity, and knowledge of university press design and production departments on full display.”
Your Texas selections are:
Scholarly Illustrated
Recipes for Survival
Maria Thereza Alves
University of Texas Press
Designer: Monograph / Matt Avery
Trade Typographic
America’s Most Alarming Writer
Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden
Bill Broyles and Bruce J. Dinges
University of Texas Press
Designer: Monograph / Matt Avery
Trade Illustrated
Big Wonderful Thing
A History of Texas
Stephen Harrigan
University of Texas Press
Designer: Erin Mayes
Mercados
Recipes from the Markets of Mexico
David Sterling
University of Texas Press
Designer: Derek George
Book Jackets & Covers
Breaking the Frames
Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies
Marc Singer
University of Texas Press
Designer: Derek George
Go Ahead in the Rain
Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib
University of Texas Press
Designer: Sunra Thompson
Guitar King
Michael Bloomfield’s Life in the Blues
David Dann
University of Texas Press
Designer: Dustin Kilgore
Dispatches from the End of Ice
Essays
Beth Peterson
Trinity University Press
Designer: ALSO
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) is an organization of more than 150 international nonprofit scholarly publishers. Since 1937, the Association of University Presses advances the essential role of a global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. The association holds integrity, diversity, stewardship, and intellectual freedom as core values. AUPresses members are active across many scholarly disciplines, including the humanities, arts, and sciences, publish significant regional and literary work, and are innovators in the world of digital publishing.
Since 1965, the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) Book, Jacket, and Journal Show has fulfilled its mission to “honor and instruct”: honoring the design and production teams whose work furthers a long tradition of excellence in book design, and—through a traveling exhibit and acclaimed annual catalog of selected entries—visually teachings the tenets of good design.
The Book, Jacket, and Journal Show recognizes meritorious achievement in design, production, and manufacture of books, jackets, covers, and journals by members of the university press community. It also provides an evaluation of their work and serves as a focus of discussion and a source of ideas for intelligent, creative, and resourceful bookmaking.
The show is a juried design competition, open only to AUPresses member publishers. Every autumn, the call for entries is distributed , and each January, the jurors gather in AUPresses’ New York offices to examine hundreds of submissions and select the very best examples of book, journal, and cover designs. Jurors are esteemed interior and cover designers appointed by the annual show committee.
