50 Books | 50 Covers Features 17 Penguin Random House Prize-Winning Designs
August 9, 2017
This year’s 50 Books | 50 Covers competition, widely recognized as the highest design honor in the book publishing world, features 4 interior and 13 cover prize-winning designs created by our Penguin Random House art directors and designers in 2016.
A SUPER UPSETTING COOKBOOK ABOUT SANDWICHES
Author: Tyler Kord
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Art Director: Marysarah Quinn, Stephanie Huntwork
Designer: Ian Dingman
CLASSIC PENGUIN: Cover to Cover
Author: Edited with an Introduction by Paul Buckley, Preface by Elda Rotor
Publisher: Penguin Books
Designer: Paul Buckley and Matt Vee
ME: A Compendium
Author: Wee Society
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Art Director: Jill Robertson, Rob Alexander
Designer: Rob Alexander
somethingtofoodabout
Author: Questlove and Ben Greenman
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Art Director: Marysarah Quinn, Alexis Rosenzweig
Designer: Rational Beauty: Jeanette Abbink, Mike Abbink Design intern: Yerang Choi
Our winners in the 50 Covers category:
The Angelus Trilogy
(The Watchers, Angel City, The Way of Sorrows)
Author: Jon Steele
Publisher: Blue Rider Press
Designer: Jason Booher
BOY ERASED
Author: Garrard Conley
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Creative + Art Director: Helen Yentus
Designer: Rachel Willey
BUT WHAT IF WE’RE WRONG
Author: Chuck Klosterman
Publisher: Blue Rider Press
Creative + Art Director: Jason Booher
Designer: Office of Paul Sahre
GIRL IN PIECES
Author: Kathleen Glasgow / Krista Marino
Publisher: Random House Children‘s Books | Delacorte
Creative + Art Director: Alison Impey
Designer: Jen Heuer
HOW TO RUIN EVERYTHING
Author: George Watsky
Publisher: Plume
Creative + Art Director: Jason Booher
Designer: Ben Denzer
OLD RECORDS NEVER DIE
Author: Eric Spitznagel
Publisher: Plume
Creative + Art Director: Jason Booher
Designer: John Gall
ON DIRECTING FILM
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Penguin Books
Creative + Art Director: Paul Buckley, Roseanne Serra
Designer: Christopher Sergio
Penguin Galaxy Series (Dune, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Neuromancer, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Once and Future King)
Authors: Frank Herbert, Arthur C. Clarke, William Gibson, Robert A. Heinlein, Ursula K. Le Guin, T. H. White
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Creative + Art Director: Paul Buckley
Designer: Alex Trochut
Penguin Orange (Twelve Years a Slave, The Broom of the System, East of Eden, White Noise, The Joy Luck Club, The Snow Leopard, One Flew Over the Cuckoo‘s Nest, The Crucible, On the Road, Ceremony, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Call of Cthulhu)
Authors: Solomon Northup, David Foster Wallace, John Steinbeck, Don DeLillo, Amy Tan, Peter Matthiessen, Ken Kesey, Arthur Miller, Jack Kerouac,
Leslie Marmon Silko, Shirley Jackson, H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Creative + Art Director: Paul Buckley
Designer: Paul Buckley, Illustrations by Eric Nyquist
THE BED MOVED
Author: Rebecca Schiff/Diana Miller
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Creative + Art Director: Carol Devine Carson
Designer: Janet Hansen
THE PASSION OF MADEMOISELLE S.
Author: Jean Yves Berthault
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau / Random House
Creative + Art Director: Paolo Pepe, Greg Mollica
Designer: Gabriele Wilson
The Pelican Shakespeare (King Lear, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night‘s Dream, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Macbeth)
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Creative + Art Director: Paul Buckley
Designer: Manuja Waldia
THE POSER
Author: Jacob Rubin
Publisher: Penguin Books
Creative + Art Director: Alison Forner
Designer: Will Staehle
To view all of this year’s 50 Books prize-winning designs, click here.
To view all of this year’s 50 Covers prize-winning designs, click here.
Many Penguin Random House staff designers and art directors have been honored by the 50 Books |50 Covers contest over the years, and are deeply invested in seeing this design contest continue and remain vital.
Established in 1923 by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as “Fifty Books,” the 50 Books | 50 Covers competition is now the longest continually running design competition in the United States. Design Observer has hosted the competition since 2011. Popular Company News
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