The Most Beautiful Swiss Books of the year 2006
Gold, Silver and Punk
Mirjam Fischer
Ski jumping is not the only discipline in which Switzerland is winning championship gold this winter season, with Simon Ammann; considerable successes have been chalked up in the sphere of book design as well. Swiss achievements are ringingly endorsed beyond our borders this year as well, as the Leipzig Book Fair showed. An international jury awarded one Golden Letter, one gold medal, two silver medals, five bronze medals and five diplomas of honour choosing from 545 publications submitted by 33 countries. Two medals went to books from the Swiss competition: the Atlas of Novel Tectonics received the Golden Letter, thus making it the third time since 1991 that Switzerland had won the highest of all prizes in the international design field. At the same time, the title on the Wo-Wo-Wonige! housing movement put a dissertation on the second podium, winning one of the two silver medals. Great grounds for celebration!