The selection of 2022 is announced30 March 2023The 33 Best Dutch Book Designs 2022 are known. The Dutch selection received a Bronze Medal and an Honorable Appreciation ...Read more
Student jury selects 30 books30 March 2023For the eight time, the student jury has made its own selection from this year’s submissions (262 books). Members of ...Read more
Registration 2022 is open till Friday January 13!5 December 2022You are very welcome to register your book. Just make your own profile and fill in the form. There are ...Read more
Registration starts December 525 November 2022The next chance to be part of the competition will be the edition of 2022. At December 5 the registration ...Read more
Covers & pages8 October 2022Cover & Pages – The Best Dutch Book Designs 2021 was designed by PutGootink (René Put en Brigitte Gootink). It ...Read more
Release video The Best Dutch Book Designs7 October 2022Today an introductory film is released. It explains how a best-designed book is realized through the collaboration between the designer, ...Read more
Stedelijk exhibits selection professional and student panel7 October 2022Every year the Stedelijk presents the most beautiful books of the past year. Despite all the corona effects, the raw ...Read more
The two most beautiful books are Dutch10 March 2022The 33 Best Dutch Book Designs 2021 are known. At the international judging The Best Book Design from all over ...Read more
Student jury selected 32 books10 March 2022For the seventh time, the student jury has made its own selection from this year’s submissions (328 books). Members of ...Read more
Registration 2021 is open till January 7!29 November 2021You are very welcome to register your book. There are five categories from which a total maximum of 33 Best ...Read more
Submission 2021 starts November21 October 2021The next chance to be part of the competition will be the edition of 2021. At the end of November ...Read more
33 books + student selection + corona books + Sandberg24 September 2021Every year, the Stedelijk presents the most beautiful books of the past year. While everything was canceled in the cultural ...Read more
Ode to the creators24 September 202133 – The Best Dutch Book Designs 2020 was designed by Tessa van der Waals. She reviews the selection of ...Read more
Grand tour in China24 September 2021The Best Dutch Book Designs of 2019 are making a grand tour through China. The following cities are exhibiting the ...Read more
Selection 2019 exhibited in Seoul and Beijing12 July 2021Versatile Volumes – The Best Dutch Book Designs Meet Korean Artists’ Books. This it the title of the exhibition at ...Read more
Silver Medal international competitioin1 June 2021The international competition Best Book Design from all over the world announces today that the Dutch selection has been awarded ...Read more
Student jury selected 30 books8 March 2021For the sixth time, the student jury has made its own selection from this year’s submissions (267 books). Members of ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs 20204 March 2021The thirty-three Best Dutch Book Designs 2020 have been announced. A total of 267 entries were assessed for their distinctive ...Read more
Registration 2020 is open till January 1724 November 2020Please note: 2 copies of your book(s) have to be send to Drukkerij Zwaan Lenoir, Industrieweg 58, 1521 NE Wormerveer, ...Read more
Submission 2020 starts November17 November 2020The next chance to be part of the competition will be the edition of 2020. At the end of November ...Read more
Stedelijk Museum shows The Best Dutch Book Designs 20193 October 2020The selection of 33 Best Dutch Book Designs 2019 is on display in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam till November 1. ...Read more
Catalogue 2019 is available3 October 2020The catalogue is the result of a dedicated collaboration led by the designer duo Team Thursday. In close consultation with ...Read more
International recognition24 February 2020The international competition Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt announces today that the Duthc selection has been awarded a Bronze Medal ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs 201924 February 2020The thirty-three Best Dutch Book Designs 2019 have been announced. A total of 278 entries were assessed for their distinctive ...Read more
Registration is open till 12 January 20206 December 2019Please note: books can be delivered every day between 9 am and 5 pm, only NOT from 24 to 28 ...Read more
Catalogue available, exposition opened28 September 2019For the first time this year the Dutch public and visitors to the Netherlands can now visit the Stedelijk Museum ...Read more
Submissions 2019 starts in November12 July 2019The next chance to be part of the competition will be the edition of 2019. At the end of this ...Read more
Leipzig Gold!7 March 2019The Best Dutch Book Designs 2018 selection comes out top in international vote. News came today that no fewer than ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs of 2018 announced7 March 2019The thirty-three Best Dutch Book Designs 2018 have been announced. A total of 295 entries were assessed for their distinctive ...Read more
Registration for Best Dutch Book Designs 2018 open11 December 2018The registration for The Best Dutch Book Designs 2018 is open till 24:00 11 January 2019. Starting this year there ...Read more
Exhibition and catalogue29 September 2018The annual exhibition of the 33 Best Dutch Book Designs in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has been opened. Visitors have ...Read more
Student selection31 August 201831 books are selected by a panel of students of art academies. They have seen and discussed a total of ...Read more
Travelling to 7 Chinese towns31 August 2018The Best Dutch Book Designs 2017 are travelling through China. The following cities shall be the host of this travelling ...Read more
Prizes Leipzig5 March 2018Two Dutch books have been awarded at the international competition Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt in Leipzig: Avond (bronze medal) ...Read more
33 Best Dutch Book Designs 20175 March 201833 Best Dutch Book Designs 2017A panel of professional judges made a selection out of the 342 submissions. 33 books ...Read more
Exposition and catalogue29 September 2017For the first time this year the 33 Best Dutch Book Designs are on public display at the Stedelijk Museum. ...Read more
Travelling in China28 September 2017The Best Dutch Book Designs 2016 are travelling through China. The following cities shall be the host of this travelling ...Read more
Registration6 September 2017The next chance to be part of the competition will be the edition of 2017. At the end of this ...Read more
student selection9 July 2017As of last year a student panel is installed consisting of five students from art academies. This year ArtEZ University ...Read more
33 Best Dutch Book Designs3 March 2017Publishers, commisioners, designers, printers and binders have submitted 298 books in total. 33 books distinguished themselves conspicuously by their editorial ...Read more
Shanghai – Beijing – Moscow27 September 2016The Best Book Designs from the Netherlands and Flanders are travelling around the world. They were exhibited at the Shanghai ...Read more
Students are getting involved5 September 2016The new policy of the Stichting The Best Book Designs is cranking up the exchange of ideas and experience between ...Read more
Catalogue by Irma Boom availabe2 September 2016The brand new catalogue The Best Book Designs from the Netherlands and Flanders 2015 | De Best Verzorgde Boeken van ...Read more
Dutch-Flemish selection on display2 September 2016The cultural season has started! One of the highlights is the exhibition of The Best Book Designs from the Netherlands ...Read more
Awards at Leipzig7 March 2016March 7, 2016The international panel of Best Book Design from all over the World has decided to grant 4 awards ...Read more
The Best Dutch and Flemish Book Designs 201522 February 2016The Best Dutch Book Designs of 2015 are known!This year we are proud to present a special selection of 33 ...Read more
New catalogue 201422 September 2015The new catalogue The Best Dutch Book Designs 2014 De Best Verzorgde Boeken is for sale. It has become a ...Read more
Where? At the Stedelijk10 September 2015Since Saturday September 5 they are on show again at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, the books belonging to the annual ...Read more
Esther Scholten will be the new director8 September 2015Esther Scholten will become the new director of the Best Dutch Book Designs. She is the successor of Just Enschedé, ...Read more
Most beautiful book cover: Alice in Wonderland10 March 2015Alice in Wonderland / Alice in Spiegelland is not only one of the Best Dutch Book Designs of 2014, it ...Read more
Silver and bronze to photo books2 March 2015Books in the field of art, photography and architecture are increasingly published in a variety of international entanglements. This year's ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs 201424 February 2015Today we make public which books are The Best Dutch Book Designs of 2014.Who chose them? That job was done ...Read more
A special selection at the Museum Gouda16 February 2015From February 17 onwards the Museum Gouda will be hosting the exhibition Uitgelezen. It is an exhibition on the printing ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2013 on Show15 February 2015On Friday February 27 The Best Dutch Book Designs 2014 will be disclosed. Right now The Best Dutch Book Designs ...Read more
Go smell them at the Stedelijk2 November 2014Since yesterday they are there to be seen again at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the annual crop of Best Dutch ...Read more
New catalogue out25 October 2014The opening of the Best Dutch Book Designs exhibition at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum today also saw the launch of ...Read more
Back on the tracks: The Best of Dutch Book Design25 April 2014After a year-long time-out The Best of Dutch Book Design, an exhibition in the form of a traveling library, will ...Read more
Johannes Vermeerprijs voor Irma Boom15 April 2014Book designer Irma Boom won the Johannes Vermeer Prize 2014, the state prize for the arts in the Netherlands, on ...Read more
Honorary diploma for book on poet Lucebert4 March 2014Ik ben een gemankeerde saxofonist (I am a failed saxophone player), the book that came out last year on the ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs21 February 2014Today is the day The Best Dutch Book Designs selection of 2013 is being unveiled. In December 2013 and the ...Read more
Ongoing exhibitions21 January 2014The Best Dutch Book Designs 2012 will still be on show in: – Vienna, Austria, Neue Hauptbücherei, 3 December 2013-8 ...Read more
Submissions welcome between 6 and 612 November 2013It's registration time for The Best Dutch Book Designs 2013, and it will be running until January 6, 2014. Please ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs spectacularly clad23 September 2013Op September 21 the annual Best Dutch Book Designs catalogue was presented at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The book was ...Read more
Back at the Stedelijk13 September 2013The Best Dutch Book Designs 2012 will be on show at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam from September 14 onwards until ...Read more
Carbon wins gold25 February 2013The Dutch photo book Cette montagne c'est moi by Witho Worms won a gold medal at the Best Book Design ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs 201222 February 2013Today is the day The Best Dutch Book Designs of 2012 are being made public.This year's judges were Ada Lopes ...Read more
Binders Hexspoor present a decade of their Best Dutch Book Designs21 January 2013Binders Hexspoor of Boxtel published a book in which their Best Dutch Book Designs dating from the years 2002 to ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 on show20 January 2013During the upcoming months the Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 will be on show at several venues in the Netherlands ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2012: wanna submit?10 December 2012It's registration time for The Best Dutch Book Designs 2012. The registration period will run until January 8, 2013.E-books and ...Read more
Now traveling: The Best of Dutch Book Design18 October 2012The very same week that the Best Dutch Book Designs 2011 exhibition opened at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, another Best ...Read more
The Stedelijk shows the Best Dutch Book Designs in a new setting16 October 2012In the new wing of the recently reopened Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, with the facade of the old museum building as ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs back at the Stedelijk28 August 2012Three weeks after the opening of the completely renovated and extended museum by Queen Beatrix the Best Dutch Book Designs ...Read more
Praise for books from the Netherlands24 February 2012This year's judging for Best Book Design from all over the World in Leipzig resulted in triple praise for books ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs 201117 February 2012The Best Dutch Book Designs selection of 2011 consists of thirty books, all released last year.This selection was put together ...Read more
Exhibitions The Best Dutch Book Designs 201016 February 2012The Best Dutch Book Designs 2010 are still on show at: > Amstelveen, printers Lenoirschuring, from mid-January 2012 onwards The ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2011: entries welcome5 December 2011The days are getting shorter, the year is approaching its ending. That means it's time to enter books for the ...Read more
Book design awards worldwide23 October 2011The Korean quarterly Graphic dedicated it's autumn issue completely to book design awards. The awards in France, Korea, the Netherlands, ...Read more
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2010 at the Stedelijk Museum16 June 2011From June 11 onward The Best Dutch Book Designs 2010 are on show at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, as part ...Read more
Exhibitions The Best Dutch Book Designs 200913 May 2011Right at this moment The Best Dutch Book Designs 2009 are still to be seen at:> Printers Lenoirschuring, Amstelveen.Previously they ...Read more
A farewell to Marten Jongema10 April 2011On April 7 Marten Jongema, curator of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam died. For six years he has been our partner ...Read more
Congo is Best Book Cover 20113 March 2011Booksellers chose Congo by David Van Reybrouck as BestBook Cover 2011. The cover was designed by Studio Jan de Boer ...Read more