50 Books of The Year Contest
Since 1941, AIGA has sponsored a juried contest for the 50 best designed books published in the previous year, currently entitled "50 Books/50 Covers". Jurors have included booksellers, book publishers, and designers such as George Salter.
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Famous quotes containing the words books, year and/or contest:
“Good books do not make people wiser or happier—only more conscious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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Let me sigh upon a reed,
Or in the woods, with leafy din,
Whisper the still evening in:
Some still work give me to do,—
Only—be it near to you!
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And pupil, in the forest wild,
Than be the king of men elsewhere,
And most sovereign slave of care:
To have one moment of thy dawn,
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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