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This year's Vancouver awards presentation for the 29th annual Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada will be hosted by, and take place at, the Emily Carr University of Art + Design, this coming Wednesday, October 12th.
The Guest Speaker for the evening will be John Gall, Vice-President and Art Director at Vintage and Anchor Books (New York). He is also an instructor at the School of Visual Arts, and the author of Sayonara Home Run! The Art of the Japanese Baseball Card.
During his 12 years at Vintage, Mr. Gall has overseen the creation of more than 3,000 book covers. One of several "dream projects" of his was the complete re-design of Vladimir Nabokov’s entire catalog. To tackle this, Gall picked 19 of the top designers in his field—including heavyweights such as Chip Kidd, Carol Carson, and Peter Mendulsund—to form a veritable design dream team. Under his direction, they went to work recreating 20 Nabokov covers (he kept The Eye for himself) as an homage to Nabokov’s other life work: cataloging and collecting butterflies. The designers evoked each book’s content by incorporating tools used by entomologists: a specimen box, insect pins, and layers of paper. “It was a real conscious effort to have a consistent look that was going to vary over the course of 20 books,” he says.
It promises to be an interesting evening, and we hope you can attend.
Place: Emily Carr University, Room 301 South Building (above the library)
1400 Johnston St., Granville Island
Date: Wednesday, October 12
Time: 6:30 (to view winning books)
7:00 awards ceremony and lecture
FREE -- everyone welcome -- bring your friends and colleagues
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