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Best of the Year
Best Books of 2025
The books that won a GDUSA award in 2025, each with the firm and the designers credited.
27 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 2025
- Jimmy John’s ABC Kid’s Bookby Maverick Studios for Jimmy John's · 2025Featured Winner
- Hybrid: Curiosity In All Things Promotionby Hybrid Design · 2025Featured Winner
- Hospitalitarian: Bruce White’s Legacy Book Designby Spectrum Creative, LLC for White Lodging · 2025Featured Winner
- ABCs of Water Reuse Book Designby Carollo Engineers · 2025
- The ARC of Teenage Loveby MAUGE DESIGN for Gheng' Enock · 2025
- Find Your AI POV Workbookby Lighthouse · 2025
2025
ABCs of Water Reuse Book Design
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Carollo Engineers
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2025
The ARC of Teenage Love
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MAUGE DESIGN
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2025
Find Your AI POV Workbook
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Lighthouse
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2025
Readiness & Writing Student Editions and Teacher’s Guide
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Learning Without Tears
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2025
Tarrant County College District Board of Trustee Booklet Covers
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Tarrant County College District - Creative Strategy Department
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2025
PRM Phonics Practice Book
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Learning Without Tears
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2025
The STILL Anthology: Stories + Images of Those Who Go Flat After Mastectomy
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Interrobang Design Collaborative, Inc.
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2025
Pediatric & Adolescent Oncology Handbook
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Live Well Collaborative
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2025
Nineteen Eighty Four Book Design
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Ipek Koprululu
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2025
enVision+ Mathematics // K-8 Cover Series
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Savvas Learning Company
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Full Page2025
Jimmy John’s ABC Kid’s Book
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Maverick Studios
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2025
2025 Q3 AOPA Member Guide
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AOPA - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
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2025
Cougar Swatchbook
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birdsong gregory
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Full Page2025
Hybrid: Curiosity In All Things Promotion
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Hybrid Design
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2025
God Saw That It Was Good Limited Edition Book
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CEDC
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2025
TASB 75th Anniversary Commemorative Book
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Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)
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2025
So! YOU and AI Exploring Collaboration In Design - A Resource Guide For The Next Generation of Creators
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MAUGEDESIGN, LLC
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Full Page2025
Hospitalitarian: Bruce White’s Legacy Book Design
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Spectrum Creative, LLC
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2025
Let's Take A Mental Break Book Design
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Jingyuan Huang
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2025
Platinum Performance Veterinary Reference Guide
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HB Design
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2025
Lay of the Land: A Family History of Emigration
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Griffin + Skeggs Collaborative
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2025
A13–220 Book Design
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Tonia Yuqi Zhang
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2025
Mahoney Memorial Book
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Stan Gellman Graphic Design
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2025
Voice Print Book Design
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Isabelle Tan
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2025
Chicago Justice by Dave Case , Cover Design
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RAS Communications
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2025
Pixelated Pearl Children's Book Illustration & Design
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Brim Branding and Nerdy & Girly
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2025
It's About Time: Book Cover
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Studio Holden
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Common questions
- How many books won GDUSA awards in 2025?
- The gallery lists 27 winners from 2025 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 2025?
- Learning Without Tears is the only firm with more than one winner, at 2. The ranking for the year lists every firm with its winning work. Best Books firms of 2025, by award wins.
- Who are the clients on the 2025 books?
- Clients named on this work include Catholic Climate Covenant, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Dave Case Books, Domtar, Gheng' Enock. 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.