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Best of the Year
Best Books of 2024
The books that won a GDUSA award in 2024, each with the firm and the designers credited.
35 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 2024
- Deja the Dynamo Children's Book Illustrationsby CannonDesign · 2024
- So! I'm A New Graphic Designer ‒ What's Nextby MAUGE DESIGN · 2024
- New Mobility - Transportation Electrification and the Road to Net Zero e-Bookby VHB · 2024
- AARP The Fraud Fighters Handbookby AARP Brand Creative Services · 2024
- AOPA Bahamas Island Guideby AOPA · 2024
- Handwriting Without Tears 2025 Student Editions and Teacher's Guidesby Learning Without Tears · 2024
2024
Deja the Dynamo Children's Book Illustrations
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CannonDesign
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2024
So! I'm A New Graphic Designer ‒ What's Next
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MAUGE DESIGN
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2024
New Mobility - Transportation Electrification and the Road to Net Zero e-Book
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VHB
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2024
AARP The Fraud Fighters Handbook
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AARP Brand Creative Services
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2024
AOPA Bahamas Island Guide
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AOPA
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2024
Handwriting Without Tears 2025 Student Editions and Teacher's Guides
Books
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Learning Without Tears
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2024
Plant Vogtle Units 3 & 4 Commemorative Book
Books
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Georgia Power, Stakeholder Engagement, Brand Creative Team
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2024
Dominion Energy Brand Communication Guidebook
Books
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Dominion Energy Corporate Branding
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2024
Current State of Discount Valuations
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Stout Risius Ross, LLC (Stout)
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2024
Chairman's Circle Book
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GAF Creative Services
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2024
Lenses on Literature Grade 9 Student Edition
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Carnegie Learning, Inc.
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2024
Dawn The Book by Dorie Burdett Pickle
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CreativePickle
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2024
CARGOS Editorial and Typeface Design
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Wu Shiyao Wu
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2024
Universal Principles of Typography Book Design
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The Quarto Group and Elliot Jay Stocks
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2024
Complete Color Harmony: Deluxe Edition Book Design
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The Quarto Group and Landers Miller Design
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2024
T'es branché? Level 1 Student Edition
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Carnegie Learning, Inc.
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2024
Where Is The Boy? - Escaping My Time As A Child Soldier
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MAUGE DESIGN
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2024
I Was a Teenage Dominatrix Cover
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Rockets Are Red
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2024
Let It Bleed - Twenty Years of Concert Poster Design
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Rockets Are Red
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2024
The Way to Wealth: Benjamin Franklin on Matters of Money and Lessons on Livelihood Graphic Novel
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Ogline Design
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2024
Give to Grow Book Design
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Stauber Brand Studio
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2024
Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design Book Design
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Alison Place
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2024
Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future
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Anna Jordan
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2024
The Entanglement
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Anna Jordan
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2024
Good Men
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Anna Jordan
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2024
The Right Thing To Do Book Cover
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Renaissance Jane
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2024
How to Mix Methods
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Anne Likes Red, Inc.
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2024
AlphaFlo Case Studies Booklet
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HB Design
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2024
Platinum Veterinary Reference Guide
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HB Design
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2024
Little Book of Big Ideas
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The Republik
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2024
Celebrating Our Success, Propelling the Future: The History of Cooperative Education in the College
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College of Engineering, Northeastern University
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2024
Keep a Good Backlog on the Fire Book
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Lynda Hodge, LLC
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2024
Tips and Quips Book
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Stan Gellman Graphic Design
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2024
Fun On The Farm Children's Book
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The Republik
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2024
Friendship Village How We Thrive Book
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Stan Gellman Graphic Design
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Common questions
- How many books won GDUSA awards in 2024?
- The gallery lists 35 winners from 2024 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 2024?
- Anna Jordan leads with 3 of the 2024 winners, ahead of Carnegie Learning, Inc. (2), HB Design (2), MAUGE DESIGN (2), Rockets Are Red (2), Stan Gellman Graphic Design (2). The ranking for the year lists every firm with its winning work. Best Books firms of 2024, by award wins.
- Who are the clients on the 2024 books?
- Clients named on this work include Rockport Publishers, AlphaLogix, APA Books, August Publications, Bard Press. 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.