Afrodisiac Wins AIGA Honor

AdHouse Books is pleased to announce that the book Afrodisiac by Brian Maruca and Jim Rugg was selected by AIGA as one of the outstanding books designed in 2009.

This time-honored competition aims to identify the 50 best-designed books and book covers that have been designed, produced and used in the marketplace between January 1 and December 31, 2009, as chosen by distinguished jurors.

Afrodisiac will become part of the AIGA Design Archives, a searchable visual database of exemplary design. The book will also be exhibited at the AIGA National Design Center in New York and offered as a traveling exhibition for display across the country. The physical artifacts comprise the AIGA Design Archives at the Denver Art Museum. A second set of the awarded books and covers becomes part of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection at the Butler Library, Columbia University, New York.

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2009 Harvey Award Winners

Saturday night at this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con the prestigious Harvey Awards were handed out. The Harvey Awards are one of the comic book industry’s oldest and most respected awards perhaps because they are the only industry awards both nominated by and selected by the full body of comic book professionals. Below is a list of this year’s award winners for more information check out the official site for the awards.

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2009 Eisner Award Winners

Not to be confused with the prestigious but lesser known Dollar Bin Awards, the 2009 Eisner Awards were announced at the San Diego Comic Con in a ceremony Friday evening. For more information on that event please go to http://www.comic-con.org and for more info on the Eisner Awards please check out http://www.willeisner.com. For the full list of this year’s nominees please click here and for information on this year’s judges click here. And now, the 2009 Eisner Award winners…

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