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The Gun Violence History Book
Agency: FCB / Chicago + Lord + Thomas / Chicago + The Mill / Chicago
Client: Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence Category: Design for Good / Publication Design


Madness In Crowds
Agency: Beehive Books / Philadelphia + Headcase Design / Philadelphia
Client: Beehive Books Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Memory
Agency: Minmin qu & qian jiang / Nanjing
Client: JIANGSU ART MUSEUM Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


WITH
Agency: Michele Salati / Hong Kong + Córdova Canillas / Barcelona
Client: Zurich University of the Arts Category: Magazines / Magazine Full Issue - Series


Made in Fukushima.
Agency: SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
Client: METER Group Category: Design for Good / Publication Design


The New York Times for Kids
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Mag Labs Category: Newspapers / Full Issue - Series


Made in Fukushima.
Agency: SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
Client: METER Group Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


The New York Issue
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Magazines / Magazine Cover - Single


The New York Issue
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Magazines / Magazine Full Issue - Single


Great Performers
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Magazines / Magazine Full Issue - Single


11.50 Rediscovering Discovery
Agency: Doug Pedersen Art Direction & Design / Minneapolis
Client: Doug Pedersen Art Direction & Design Category: Newspapers / Full Issue - Single


Paul Smith's Cycling Scrapbook
Agency: Tenmilliontimes Design / Nanjing
Client: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House Category: Books / Text-Driven - Single


Ninety-Nine Percent Fearless (Laura Dern)
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Magazines / Magazine Story / Spread - Single


Typographic Design in China
Agency: T-Change Design Studio / Nanjing
Client: Shenzhen Graphic Design Association (SGDA) Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


Bloomberg — Charting Futures
Agency: Algo / Torino + Illo / Torino
Client: Bloomberg Category: Innovation


Observing and Mirroring - Dwelling Philosophy
Agency: T-Change Design Studio / Nanjing
Client: Day Day Up Design Consultant Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


Hunhun's Notes
Agency: Day Day Up Design Consultancy / Zhongshan
Client: Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing, Ltd. Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


Nature's co-citation network infographic
Agency: Nature / New York + Barabási Lab / Boston
Client: Nature Category: Magazines / Magazine Infographics - Single or Series


Dragon’s Delusion - Book Cover & Jacket Design
Agency: STUDIO-M / Hong Kong
Client: Dragon’s Delusion Category: Books / Jacket - Series


Age of Union
Agency: Baillat Studio / Montreal + Anteism / Montreal
Client: Dax Dasilva Category: Books / Text-Driven - Single


Emergence Magazine
Agency: Emergence Magazine / Inverness + Studio Airport / Utrecht, NL
Client: Emergence Magazine Category: Digital Publications / Online Publication - Single or Series


The New York Times Magazine Labs Special Sections
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Labs Category: Newspapers / Full Issue - Series


Breeze blows to the page, you read
Agency: XXL Studio / Beijing
Client: Hainan Publishing House Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


Made in Fukushima.
Agency: SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
Client: METER Group Category: Books / Jacket - Single


The New York Times For Kids: The Fear Issue Covers
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Labs Category: Newspapers / Front Page - Series


Madonna at 60
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Magazines / Magazine Cover - Single


Undiscovered Rembrandt
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Magazines / Magazine Cover - Single


Emergence Magazine
Agency: Emergence Magazine / Inverness, USA
Client: Emergence Magazine Category: Magazines / Magazine Full Issue - Single


Liu XiaoDong QuanFangWei
Agency: Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts / ShenYang + lulu zhao / ShenYang
Client: Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


Vitamin T: Threads & Textiles in Contemporary Art
Agency: Phaidon / New York
Client: Phaidon Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


Fabien Baron: Works 1983-2019
Agency: Phaidon / New York
Client: Phaidon Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


#Romanovs100 AR Photo Album
Agency: RT / Moscow + Phygitalism / Moscow
Client: RT Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


LAAB MAGAZINE #4: This Was Your Life!
Agency: Beehive Books / Philadelphia
Client: Beehive Books Category: Newspapers / Full Issue - Single


Separated-Separados Magazine
Agency: Shira Inbar / New York City
Client: Self-initiated Category: Design for Good / Publication Design


Lo—TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism
Agency: W—E studio, Piera Wolf + Claudine Eriksson / Zürich + New York + TASCHEN / Cologne + TASCHEN / Berlin
Client: TASCHEN Category: Design for Good / Publication Design


The 1619 Project
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Design for Good / Publication Design


Stimulate Annual
Agency: Dentsu Inc. / Tokyo
Client: Copywriters Club Nagoya Category: Books / Jacket - Series


How We See: Photobooks by Women
Agency: Laura Coombs / New York
Client: 10x10 Photobooks Category: Books / Text-Driven - Single


LOLOSOSO – 60 years of anothermountainman
Agency: Mak Kai Hang / Hong Kong
Client: Joint Publishing (HK) Category: Books / Text-Driven - Single


The Appreciation of Poems in Tang and Song Dynasty
Agency: T-Change Design Studio / Nanjing
Client: The Commercial Press Category: Books / Text-Driven - Single


GDC19
Agency: Han Qing Tang Design / Nanjing
Client: Designer books Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


The Book Block, Industrial Bookbinding Techniques
Agency: Itemzero / Espinho + douro / Maia
Client: Maiadouro Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


To be Continued: Nanjing in 99 Objects
Agency: T-Change Design Studio / Nanjing
Client: Nanjing Museum Administration Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


Transmission Pang Pang Document Book
Agency: Edition Nord / Minamiuonuma-shi
Client: OLTA Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


Jia Hui
Agency: Han Qing Tang Design / Nanjing
Client: Phoenix Science Press Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


#Romanovs100 AR Photo Album
Agency: RT / Moscow + Phygitalism / Moscow
Client: RT Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


Sophy Holland Super Humans
Agency: YummyColours / New York City + Sophy Holland / New York City
Client: Sophy Holland Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


Iconography of the Ten Bamboo Studio
Agency: Han Qing Tang Design / Nanjing
Client: Ten Bamboo Studio Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


#Romanovs100 AR Photo Album
Agency: RT / Moscow + Phygitalism / Moscow
Client: RT Category: Innovation


Award:
2020 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
FCB / Chicago + Lord + Thomas / Chicago + The Mill / Chicago
Client:
Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence
Title:
The Gun Violence History Book
Category:
Design for Good / Publication Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_004G

Award:
2020 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
Beehive Books / Philadelphia + Headcase Design / Philadelphia
Client:
Beehive Books
Title:
Madness In Crowds
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_001G

Award:
2020 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
Minmin qu & qian jiang / Nanjing
Client:
JIANGSU ART MUSEUM
Title:
The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Memory
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_002G

Award:
2020 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
Michele Salati / Hong Kong + Córdova Canillas / Barcelona
Client:
Zurich University of the Arts
Title:
WITH
Category:
Magazines / Magazine Full Issue - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_017G

Award:
2020 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
Client:
METER Group
Title:
Made in Fukushima.
Category:
Design for Good / Publication Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_037G

Award:
2020 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine Mag Labs
Title:
The New York Times for Kids
Category:
Newspapers / Full Issue - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_022G

Award:
2020 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
Client:
METER Group
Title:
Made in Fukushima.
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_007G

Award:
2020 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The New York Issue
Category:
Magazines / Magazine Cover - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_014S

Award:
2020 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The New York Issue
Category:
Magazines / Magazine Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_015S

Award:
2020 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Great Performers
Category:
Magazines / Magazine Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_016S

Award:
2020 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
Doug Pedersen Art Direction & Design / Minneapolis
Client:
Doug Pedersen Art Direction & Design
Title:
11.50 Rediscovering Discovery
Category:
Newspapers / Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_021S

Award:
2020 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
Tenmilliontimes Design / Nanjing
Client:
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
Title:
Paul Smith's Cycling Scrapbook
Category:
Books / Text-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_010S

Award:
2020 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Ninety-Nine Percent Fearless (Laura Dern)
Category:
Magazines / Magazine Story / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_019S

Award:
2020 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
T-Change Design Studio / Nanjing
Client:
Shenzhen Graphic Design Association (SGDA)
Title:
Typographic Design in China
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_008S

Award:
2020 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
Algo / Torino + Illo / Torino
Client:
Bloomberg
Title:
Bloomberg — Charting Futures
Category:
Innovation
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_013S

Award:
2020 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
T-Change Design Studio / Nanjing
Client:
Day Day Up Design Consultant
Title:
Observing and Mirroring - Dwelling Philosophy
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_003B

Award:
2020 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Day Day Up Design Consultancy / Zhongshan
Client:
Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing, Ltd.
Title:
Hunhun's Notes
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_004B

Award:
2020 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Nature / New York + Barabási Lab / Boston
Client:
Nature
Title:
Nature's co-citation network infographic
Category:
Magazines / Magazine Infographics - Single or Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_018B

Award:
2020 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
STUDIO-M / Hong Kong
Client:
Dragon’s Delusion
Title:
Dragon’s Delusion - Book Cover & Jacket Design
Category:
Books / Jacket - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_006B

Award:
2020 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Baillat Studio / Montreal + Anteism / Montreal
Client:
Dax Dasilva
Title:
Age of Union
Category:
Books / Text-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_011B

Award:
2020 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Emergence Magazine / Inverness + Studio Airport / Utrecht, NL
Client:
Emergence Magazine
Title:
Emergence Magazine
Category:
Digital Publications / Online Publication - Single or Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_012B

Award:
2020 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine Labs
Title:
The New York Times Magazine Labs Special Sections
Category:
Newspapers / Full Issue - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_023B

Award:
2020 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
XXL Studio / Beijing
Client:
Hainan Publishing House
Title:
Breeze blows to the page, you read
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_009B

Award:
2020 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
Client:
METER Group
Title:
Made in Fukushima.
Category:
Books / Jacket - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_005B

Award:
2020 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine Labs
Title:
The New York Times For Kids: The Fear Issue Covers
Category:
Newspapers / Front Page - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_020B

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Madonna at 60
Category:
Magazines / Magazine Cover - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_048M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Undiscovered Rembrandt
Category:
Magazines / Magazine Cover - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_049M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Emergence Magazine / Inverness, USA
Client:
Emergence Magazine
Title:
Emergence Magazine
Category:
Magazines / Magazine Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_050M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts / ShenYang + lulu zhao / ShenYang
Client:
Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
Title:
Liu XiaoDong QuanFangWei
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_024M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Phaidon / New York
Client:
Phaidon
Title:
Vitamin T: Threads & Textiles in Contemporary Art
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_025M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Phaidon / New York
Client:
Phaidon
Title:
Fabien Baron: Works 1983-2019
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_026M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
RT / Moscow + Phygitalism / Moscow
Client:
RT
Title:
#Romanovs100 AR Photo Album
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_027M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Beehive Books / Philadelphia
Client:
Beehive Books
Title:
LAAB MAGAZINE #4: This Was Your Life!
Category:
Newspapers / Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_051M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Shira Inbar / New York City
Client:
Self-initiated
Title:
Separated-Separados Magazine
Category:
Design for Good / Publication Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_069M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
W—E studio, Piera Wolf + Claudine Eriksson / Zürich + New York + TASCHEN / Cologne + TASCHEN / Berlin
Client:
TASCHEN
Title:
Lo—TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism
Category:
Design for Good / Publication Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_070M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The 1619 Project
Category:
Design for Good / Publication Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_071M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Dentsu Inc. / Tokyo
Client:
Copywriters Club Nagoya
Title:
Stimulate Annual
Category:
Books / Jacket - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_032M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Laura Coombs / New York
Client:
10x10 Photobooks
Title:
How We See: Photobooks by Women
Category:
Books / Text-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_041M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Mak Kai Hang / Hong Kong
Client:
Joint Publishing (HK)
Title:
LOLOSOSO – 60 years of anothermountainman
Category:
Books / Text-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_042M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
T-Change Design Studio / Nanjing
Client:
The Commercial Press
Title:
The Appreciation of Poems in Tang and Song Dynasty
Category:
Books / Text-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_043M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Han Qing Tang Design / Nanjing
Client:
Designer books
Title:
GDC19
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_033M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Itemzero / Espinho + douro / Maia
Client:
Maiadouro
Title:
The Book Block, Industrial Bookbinding Techniques
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_034M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
T-Change Design Studio / Nanjing
Client:
Nanjing Museum Administration
Title:
To be Continued: Nanjing in 99 Objects
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_035M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Edition Nord / Minamiuonuma-shi
Client:
OLTA
Title:
Transmission Pang Pang Document Book
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_036M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Han Qing Tang Design / Nanjing
Client:
Phoenix Science Press
Title:
Jia Hui
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_037M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
RT / Moscow + Phygitalism / Moscow
Client:
RT
Title:
#Romanovs100 AR Photo Album
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_038M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
YummyColours / New York City + Sophy Holland / New York City
Client:
Sophy Holland
Title:
Sophy Holland Super Humans
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_039M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
Han Qing Tang Design / Nanjing
Client:
Ten Bamboo Studio
Title:
Iconography of the Ten Bamboo Studio
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_040M

Award:
2020 Publication Design Merit Award
Agency:
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
Client:
METER Group
Title:
Made in Fukushima.
Category:
Innovation
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB20_045M
