How many books have won GDUSA awards?

The gallery holds 133, from 2017 to 2026. Each one is listed here with its firm and designer credits.

Which firms have won the most GDUSA awards for books?

American Bar Association leads with 10 winning projects, ahead of Anna Jordan (5), Callisto Media (5), Learning Without Tears (4), MAUGEDESIGN, LLC (4), Griffin + Skeggs Collaborative (3). The full ranking, with each firm's latest winner, is on its own page.

Which clients are named on award-winning books?

Clients named on this work include Open Letter Books, Platinum Performance, Rockport Publishers, AlphaLogix, APA Books. The firm that entered the work named the client, so the credit is theirs. Work an in-house team made for its own company does not count as client work.

How do I enter books in the GDUSA awards?

Entries go through the GDUSA entry platform. Past winners in this category came through the American Graphic Design Awards and the American Inhouse Design Awards. 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.

Books Design

Award-winning books from the GDUSA Design Awards, with the firm and the designers credited on every project.

133 award-winning projects

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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.

Notable winners

Wear Intelligence: Making Thinking Visibleby MAUGEDESIGN, LLC · 2026Featured Winner
Endangered Species by Jeff Dennisby MAUGEDESIGN, LLC · 2026
Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing Book Designby American Bar Association Design Marketing Department · 2026
The Indian Child Welfare Act Handbookby American Bar Association Design Marketing Department · 2026
HMH Read 180 Program Guideby HMH · 2026
Get Set for School Letters & Literacy Teacher’s Guide + Get Set for School Letters & Literacy California Literature Guide and Resourcesby Learning Without Tears · 2026

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Endangered Species by Jeff Dennis

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MAUGEDESIGN, LLC

Notable winners

Firms named most

Endangered Species by Jeff Dennis

The Indian Child Welfare Act Handbook

Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing Book Design

HMH Read 180 Program Guide

Wear Intelligence: Making Thinking Visible

Get Set for School Letters & Literacy Teacher’s Guide + Get Set for School Letters & Literacy California Literature Guide and Resources

Mahoney Memorial Book

Nineteen Eighty Four Book Design

Let's Take A Mental Break Book Design

ABCs of Water Reuse Book Design

God Saw That It Was Good Limited Edition Book

Chicago Justice by Dave Case , Cover Design

A13–220 Book Design

2025 Q3 AOPA Member Guide

Pixelated Pearl Children's Book Illustration & Design

PRM Phonics Practice Book

Find Your AI POV Workbook

So! YOU and AI Exploring Collaboration In Design - A Resource Guide For The Next Generation of Creators

The ARC of Teenage Love

Lay of the Land: A Family History of Emigration

Hospitalitarian: Bruce White’s Legacy Book Design

Cougar Swatchbook

enVision+ Mathematics // K-8 Cover Series

Tarrant County College District Board of Trustee Booklet Covers

Pediatric & Adolescent Oncology Handbook

Hybrid: Curiosity In All Things Promotion

TASB 75th Anniversary Commemorative Book

The STILL Anthology: Stories + Images of Those Who Go Flat After Mastectomy

Readiness & Writing Student Editions and Teacher’s Guide

Platinum Performance Veterinary Reference Guide

Voice Print Book Design

Jimmy John’s ABC Kid’s Book

It's About Time: Book Cover

Good Men

AlphaFlo Case Studies Booklet

Keep a Good Backlog on the Fire Book

Let It Bleed - Twenty Years of Concert Poster Design

Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future

Complete Color Harmony: Deluxe Edition Book Design

Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design Book Design

So! I'm A New Graphic Designer ‒ What's Next

AARP The Fraud Fighters Handbook

Platinum Veterinary Reference Guide

New Mobility - Transportation Electrification and the Road to Net Zero e-Book

Friendship Village How We Thrive Book

Deja the Dynamo Children's Book Illustrations

Plant Vogtle Units 3 & 4 Commemorative Book

Fun On The Farm Children's Book

Handwriting Without Tears 2025 Student Editions and Teacher's Guides

The Way to Wealth: Benjamin Franklin on Matters of Money and Lessons on Livelihood Graphic Novel

Chairman's Circle Book

T'es branché? Level 1 Student Edition

Celebrating Our Success, Propelling the Future: The History of Cooperative Education in the College

Little Book of Big Ideas

Dominion Energy Brand Communication Guidebook

The Right Thing To Do Book Cover

The Entanglement

CARGOS Editorial and Typeface Design

Universal Principles of Typography Book Design

I Was a Teenage Dominatrix Cover

Gilda Gala Invitation Design

International Mass Timber Conference Campaign

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Endangered Species by Jeff Dennis

The Indian Child Welfare Act Handbook

Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing Book Design

HMH Read 180 Program Guide

Wear Intelligence: Making Thinking Visible

Get Set for School Letters & Literacy Teacher’s Guide + Get Set for School Letters & Literacy California Literature Guide and Resources

Mahoney Memorial Book