We are pleased to announce the start of accepting applications for the tenth Best Book Design Contest!
Books that were published from December 2024 to November 2025 and were not previously submitted to the Contest are eligible. We are accepting your applications until November 27, 2025 (inclusive), participation in the Contest is free of charge.
Before submitting an application to the Contest, please, read the Regulations.
We are waiting for the applications until November 27, 2025 inclusive. Please, deliver physical copies of the books to the address of the Mystetskyi Arsenal office by courier delivery (Ukrposhta, Nova Post, Meest) marked Best Book Design; the books have to be delivered at the sender’s expense or bring them in person to the office of the Public Enterprise “National Art and Culture Museum Complex “Mystetskyi Arsenal”.
Delivery address: Public Enterprise “National Art and Culture Museum Complex “Mystetskyi Arsenal”, 10-12 Lavrska St., Kyiv, 01010. Contact person for delivery—Maryna Askurava, +380667438737
Winners will be selected in five categories:
- Word book (books in which the textual part dominates; poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction)
- Art book (books about art, albums, photo books, catalogs, artbooks)
- Utilitarian book (books mostly of an applied nature, non-fiction, popular science books, scientific, educational literature, guidebooks, cookbooks, specialized periodicals, etc.)
- Visual storytelling (books of any genre, in which the story is told with the help of visual means, including children’s books, comics)
- Experiment (self-published books, limited editions, zines, editions that use non-traditional printing formats, experiments with visual design, etc.)
Jury 2025:
- Lizaveta German, curator, art historian, co-founder of The Naked Room gallery
- Zakentiy Horobyov, graphic designer, typographer, illustrator
- Glib Kaporikov, graphic and book designer, design director at Projector
- Oleksandra Korchevska-Tsekhosh, graphic, type and digital designer, researcher of Ukrainian design
- Annette Koehn, illustrator, comic artist, publisher (Germany)
- Zhenya Oliinyk, illustrator
- Natasha Chychasova, curator of contemporary art
Among the books submitted to the Contest, a long list (up to 45 books) and a short list of finalists (15 books, 3 books in each of the Contest categories) will be selected, from them the jury will select the winners in each category (5 winners). Among the winners in the 5 categories the Grand Prix Winner of the Contest will be selected.
The results of the tenth Best Book Design — 2025 Contest will be announced in early December 2025 on the social media and website of the International Book Arsenal Festival.
The finalists of the contest will represent Ukrainian book design in the international competition organized by the German Buchkunst Foundation; the winning books will also be exhibited at the international book fairs in Leipzig and Frankfurt.
The project partner is the Buchkunst Foundation.
The media partners of the Best Book Design — 2025 Contest are the online platform for creative industries CASES and the Telegram Channel Design-Borshch.
The address for questions and clarifications (indicate НКД/BBD in the subject line of the letter)—[email protected]