Best Dutch Book Designs 2025
The annual designers party has begun: the announcement of the Best Dutch Book Designs! On Friday, February 27th, the 2025 selection was published, including two titles by nai010! Both Interwoven Histories and Invented from Copies were selected for their extraordinary design.
Every year, the jury selects 33 books based on their distinctiveness in terms of content, design, lithography, typography, material, printing and binding. The expert jury of the Best Dutch Book Designs 2025 consists of Anniek Meinders (Head Publications Van Gogh Museum), Serana Angelista (designer, artist), Arthur Herrman (designer), Jochem Öfner (management printer RaddraaierSSP) and Kylièn Bergh (researcher and practitioner in the field of graphic design). In addition, a student jury was also formed by Anne-Sophie Berting (ArtEZ), Junghyeok Park (KABK), Sasha Tielbeke (HKU), Tetiana Tishkevych (Minerva), Loren Xu (Rietveld) and Oskar van Zadelhoff (Zuyd).
The Global Turn was also awarded, specifically by the student jury.
Interwoven Histories
- Probing research into textile as a medium to unravel complex histories of migration
- Includes historic narratives, essays and extensive research on contemporary art works of internationally acclaimed artists, amongst others Mounira Al Solh, Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic and Jennifer Tee
Invented from Copies
- A compelling plea for the reassessment of photocopies and reproductions in architectural collections worldwide
- A visual spectacle of blueprints, whiteprints, colourful adhesive films, rub-down letters and symbols and zips
- With never-before-published designs from the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning at the Nieuwe Instituut
The Global Turn
- Architecture and the city between the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
- Insightful short-story journeys into the complex phenomenon of globalization as it relates to modern architecture and the city
Click here to view all the selected books.
The entire selection will be exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam this fall. At the same time the catalogue (NL/ENG) will be released as well.
