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Designer Bookbinders Annual Competition Winners Announced

Stepan Adelene Koh, Andrew Brown, Ann Tout, Bec Britain, Ben Elbel, book binding, bookbinding, Clare Bryan, Daniel Wray, Designer Bookbinders, Glenn Malkin, instructional, Kaori Maki, Luke Hornus, Miranda Kemp, Pamela Richmond, Patrick Gibbins, Sarah Ruddick, tutorial 0 Comment November 30, 2015

Last Friday list of winners of this year’s Designer Bookbinders Annual Competition was announced. Most of the names are familiar to those following the competition through the years.

This year’s ‘Set Book’ was 1984 by George Orwell. Competition is open to any residents of the UK and Fellows of Designer Bookbinders.

2015 Winners

The Mansfield Medal for Best Book in the Competition

Luke Hornus

Folio Society prize for the Set Book

1st Prize: Luke Hornus
2nd Prize: Clare Bryan

The Mansfield Medal for Best Book in the Competition and the Folio Society Prize for Best Set Book (1st) — Luke Hornus. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

Folio Society Prize for the Set Book (2nd) — Clare Bryan. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

The Clothworkers’ Prize for Open Choice Book

1st Prize: Kaori Maki (Facebook)
2nd Prize: Pamela Richmond

The Sally Lou Smith Prize for Forwarding

Ben Elbel (Facebook)

Prize for Finishing given by St Bride Foundation

Kaori Maki

The Arthur Johnson Award (judged by Bernard Middleton)

Ann Tout

The Elizabeth Greenhill award for Gold Tooling

Not Awarded

The Ash Rare Books Lettering award

Daniel Wray

The J. Hewit & Sons prize

Kaori Maki

The Harmatan Leather Ltd prize

Patrick Gibbins

The Judges’ award (donated by Maggs Bros)

Sarah Ruddick

The Shepherds prize for Book Arts

Miranda Kemp

The Clothworkers’ Prize for Open Choice Book (1st) — Kaori Maki. The Texture of the Universe by Henry & Thomas Vaughan. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

The Clothworkers’ Prize for Open Choice Book (2nd) — Pamela Richmond. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

The Sally Lou Smith Prize for Forwarding — Ben Elbel. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

Prize for Finishing given by St Bride Foundation — Kaori Maki. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

Arthur Johnson Prize (Judged by Bernard Middleton) — Ann Tout. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

The Ash Rare Books Lettering Award — Daniel Wray. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

The J. Hewit & Sons Prize — Kaori Maki. Princes and Castles – the Legacy of Thirteenth Century Wales by J. Beverley Smith. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

The Harmatan Leather Ltd. Prize — Patrick Gibbins. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

The Judge’s Award (donated by Maggs Bros.) — Sarah Ruddick. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

The Shepherds Prize for Book Arts — Miranda Kemp. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

Four Highly Commended Certificates (given by Antiquarian Booksellers Association)

Bec Britain
Andrew Brown
Adelene Koh (Facebook)
Glenn Malkin (Facebook)

Highly Commended Certificate (given by The Antiquarian Booksellers Association) — Bec Britain. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

Highly Commended Certificate (given by The Antiquarian Booksellers Association) — Andrew Brown. Herdwick: A Portrait of Lakeland by Ian Lawson. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

Highly Commended Certificate (given by The Antiquarian Booksellers Association) — Adelene Koh. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

Highly Commended Certificate (given by The Antiquarian Booksellers Association) — Glenn Malkin. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Photo by Designer Bookbinders

I’d like to congratulate all the winners and give my respect to all the participants of the competition. At the same time I want to particularly note three people: Clare Bryan, Patrick Gibbins and Sarah Ruddick have won the Designer Bookbinders prize for the first time (Sarah Ruddick have received a Highly Commended Certificate last year).

More photos are available at the following Facebook accounts:

You can see all these books and other entries from 27^th November until 10^th December 2015 at:

St Bride Foundation
Bride Lane
Fleet Street
London
EC4Y 8EQ

The opening hours are:

Monday – Friday 12 – 6pm (Thursday 3rd December 12 – 8pm.)

If you want to participate in the next competition, you can find more information at the Designer Bookbinders web site. All other applicants may participate in the International Completion. Unfortunately, you are late for the Designer Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition 2017. Application process was closed in the end of October, 2015.

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