The Most Beautiful Swiss Books of the year 2009 (awarded in January 2010)
At the competition 'The Most Beautiful Swiss Books' of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, the independent jury chose a total of thirty books as the most beautiful Swiss books of 2009. Subsequently, the awarded books were entered in the international competition of the Stiftung Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany, where they were appraised by an international jury. A total of four Swiss books were ranked among the most beautiful: The gold medal for 'Thomas Galler. Walking through Baghdad with a Buster Keaton Face (edition fink), a silver medal for 'Die Stimme der Natur. 100 Jahre Pro Natura' (Kontrast Verlag), a bronze medal for 'Voids. A Retrospective' (JRP Ringier Kunstverlag) and an honorary appreciation for 'Jules Spinatsch' (KODOJI Press).
Jan-Tschichold Award
Christoph Keller
Jan-Tschichold Award 2010
Every year the jury bestows, independently of the books submitted for the competition, the Jan Tschichold Award in memory of the typographer Jan Tschichold, on whose initiative the Swiss book design competition was conceived in 1944. The Federal Department of Home Affairs entrusted the jury 1997 with the task of annually awarding this honour to an individual, a group or an institution for outstanding book design achievement. The Jan Tschichold Award which is endowed with 15,000 Swiss francs, was awarded this year to the publisher and designer Christoph Keller and his imprint Christoph Keller Editions at JPR Ringier in Zurich. The jury thus commended a bibliophilic book designer who sets new benchmarks, as well as a publisher who, year after year, presents a remarkable range of books.