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Best of the Year
Best Books of 2022
The books that won a GDUSA award in 2022, each with the firm and the designers credited.
14 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 2022
- Jing’an Temple Book (Riso Printing)by Jingyu Feng · 2022
- Cretaceous Stones - A Sci-Fi Thrillerby MAUGEDESIGN, LLC · 2022
- Principles of Logo Designby Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quarto Group · 2022
- Boom Times for the End of the World Book Designby Anna Jordan for Heyday Books · 2022
- Mothers Don’t Book Designby Anna Jordan for Open Letter Books · 2022
- Dynamic Matter Book Coverby Penn State University Press · 2022
2022
Jing’an Temple Book (Riso Printing)
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Jingyu Feng
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2022
Cretaceous Stones - A Sci-Fi Thriller
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MAUGEDESIGN, LLC
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2022
Principles of Logo Design
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Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quarto Group
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2022
Boom Times for the End of the World Book Design
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Anna Jordan
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2022
Mothers Don’t Book Design
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Anna Jordan
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2022
Dynamic Matter Book Cover
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Penn State University Press
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2022
Championship Mock Trial: The Guide for Students and Coaches
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American Bar Association
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2022
The Power of Packaging Book
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Griffin + Skeggs Collaborative
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2022
100 Years of Great Music Book
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John Townsend Graphic Design
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2022
Virginals: A Book Of Elizabethan Interiors Cover Design
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John Townsend Graphic Design
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2022
The Weed Gummies Cookbook
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Monica Lo
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2022
Yoga in Albanian Lands
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Perigee LLC
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2022
The End of Single-Family Zoning in California Book
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The JVP Group
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2022
This is Vietnam Book Design
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Jane Gardner Design
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Common questions
- How many books won GDUSA awards in 2022?
- The gallery lists 14 winners from 2022 in this category, out of 133 across all years. Each one appears here with its firm and designer credits.
- Which firms won the most GDUSA awards for books in 2022?
- Anna Jordan and John Townsend Graphic Design share the top spot with 2 of the 2022 winners each. The ranking for the year lists every firm with its winning work. Best Books firms of 2022, by award wins.
- Who are the clients on the 2022 books?
- Clients named on this work include Behaviorally, Cary Brazeman, Heyday Books, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Open Letter Books. 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.