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Best of the Year
Best Books of 2017
The books that won a GDUSA award in 2017, each with the firm and the designers credited.
34 award-winning projects
A book is the longest commitment a reader makes to a piece of design, and the cover is what wins that commitment at the shelf. The designer sets a typographic system a reader can live in for three hundred pages and a cover that sells the book at thumbnail size, for the publisher's list and the reader's shelf. The winners here are readable first and handsome because of it. Spectrum Creative's Hospitalitarian turned a hotelier's biography into a book built around the man's own philosophy, and Maverick Studios' Jimmy John's ABC book took a full page for making a sandwich chain's brand read as a bedtime story. The best book designers in the awards are collected here. Open any title to page through it and learn what made it work.
Standouts of 2017
- Maniac Magee Book Cover Designby Parsons’ Core Creative for County College of Morris · 2017
- Don’t Cry, Be Happy Book Designby GinneFine.Art for Behind the Book · 2017
- Language, Culture and Identity in St. Martin Book Coverby House of Nehesi · 2017
- Evolution 4E Book Designby Sinauer Associates · 2017
- Color Your Mind: A Coloring Book for Those With Alzheimer’s And The People Who Love Themby Blue Star Press, LLC · 2017
- Wicked Girls Book Designby Open Door Design Studio (ODDS) · 2017
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Maniac Magee Book Cover Design
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Parsons’ Core Creative
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Don’t Cry, Be Happy Book Design
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GinneFine.Art
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Language, Culture and Identity in St. Martin Book Cover
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House of Nehesi
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Evolution 4E Book Design
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Sinauer Associates
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Color Your Mind: A Coloring Book for Those With Alzheimer’s And The People Who Love Them
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Blue Star Press, LLC
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Wicked Girls Book Design
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Open Door Design Studio (ODDS)
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Everything Becomes A Poem
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pak creative
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SKIN Booklet
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Corse Design Factory
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The Compassion Code Book Cover Design
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artistcalledparis.com
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Any Light Will Do Book Design
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John Townsend Graphic Design
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A Field Guide to Eco-Friendly Efficient and Effective Print, 4th Edition
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Blossom Creative
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The Happy Family Organic Super Foods Cookbook for Baby & Toddler
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Happy Family Brands & Weldon Owen
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Senior Library 2016 Book Design
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Hinterland
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Black Rock City, NV: The New Ephemeral Architecture of Burning Man
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Real Paper Books
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Tastemade + Starbucks Coffee Book
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Clever Creative
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Small Book, BIG IDEAS Moleskine Journal
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Icon Branding & Design
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Al Tounsi: A Novel
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American Bar Association
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Broken Scales
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American Bar Association
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Discovering Agreements
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American Bar Association
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The Curve
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American Bar Association
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E-Lawyer Book
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American Bar Association
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Lawyers As Changemakers
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American Bar Association
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Four Bradford Daughters: Lives Well Lived
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T Square Design Studio
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Pretend This Is A Trap Artist Book
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Texas State University
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On The Way To Cape May
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Tyler School of Art, Temple University
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Pentapangram
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Tyler School of Art, Temple University
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Mastering Logical Fallacies
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Callisto Media
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Be the BBQ Pitmaster
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Callisto Media
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The Easy Indian Slow Cooker Cookbook
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Callisto Media
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Homemade Pasta Made Simple
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Callisto Media
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Kid Chef Book Design
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Callisto Media
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The Anxious Lawyer
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American Bar Association
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2017
Justice at Dachau
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American Bar Association
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A Tragic Fate
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American Bar Association
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Common questions
- How many books won GDUSA awards in 2017?
- The gallery lists 34 winners from 2017 in this category, out of 132 across all years. Each one appears here with its firm and designer credits.
- Which firms won the most GDUSA awards for books in 2017?
- American Bar Association leads with 9 of the 2017 winners. Callisto Media (5) and Tyler School of Art, Temple University (2) are next. The ranking for the year lists every firm with its winning work. Best Books firms of 2017, by award wins.
- Who are the clients on the 2017 books?
- Clients named on this work include Becky Yee Photography, Behind the Book, County College of Morris, Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Monadnock Paper Mills. The credit comes from the firm that entered the work.
- How do I enter next year's awards?
- Entries go through the GDUSA entry platform. A single entry costs $120 as of October 2026, and packages bring the price per piece down to $400 for ten to twenty entries. Winners who publish get a project page here with full credits, and publication is the paid step. How the awards work.