This year, four of Yale University Press’s art & architecture books have been honored by the Association of American University Presses (AAUP)’s Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, tying with the number of YUP art & architecture books featured in last year’s AAUP Show.

Judging for the 2012 AAUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show took place January 26-27 at the AAUP Central Office in New York City. Approximately 226 books, 300 jacket and cover design entries, and 4 journals were entered. 49 books, 1 journal, and 30 jackets/covers were chosen by the jurors as the very best examples from this assemblage of excellent design.

Congratulations to the book designers, to our publishing partners, and to the editorial, design and production teams here at YUP for being singled out by the AAUP for their outstanding design work! Congratulations, too, to all of the other publishers whose excellent work is recognized by the Book, Jacket and Journal Show!

Here are the covers of the Yale UP art & architecture books selected for the 2012 Show:

Bye Bye Kitty!!!: Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, by David Elliott
Designer: Lucinda Hitchcock
Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard, edited by Elizabeth W. Easton
Designer: Rita Jules of McGinty Design
My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 selected, annotated, and edited by Sarah Greenough
Designer: Margaret Bauer
Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Designers: Michael Beirut and Yve Ludwig, Pentagram Design

And here is a look at last year’s AAUP featured titles from the Yale UP art & architecture list:

Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s, edited by Robert W. Rydell and Laura Burd Schiavo
The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City, by Katherine Wentworth Rinne
American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture by Alice T. Friedman
Houdini: Art and Magic by Brooke Kamin Rapaport