{"id":8788,"date":"2023-05-26T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/?p=8788"},"modified":"2023-05-18T08:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T14:26:01","slug":"another-international-award-for-designer-alan-brownoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2023\/05\/26\/another-international-award-for-designer-alan-brownoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Another International Award for Designer Alan Brownoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alan Brownoff has won another international award, this one from the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/design.up.hcommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">AUPresses Book, Jacket, &amp; Journal Show<\/a> for the cover design of <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/1032-9781772126037-you-might-be-sorry-you-read-this\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/1032-9781772126037-you-might-be-sorry-you-read-this\" target=\"_blank\">You Might Be Sorry You Read This<\/a><\/em> by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/michellepoirierbrown.ca\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/michellepoirierbrown.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Poirier Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan thinks of cover design as being a matchmaker, putting words and images together in unexpected ways. Both the designer and the author have to be open to that process. And the rest is &#8220;making the type work.&#8221; He makes it sounds easy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Michelle Poirier Brown&#8217;s cover, Alan viewed hundreds of different sites in his search for an image. In the end, he found Caroline Boileau, an artist in Quebec whose <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carolineboileau.com\/gallery\/2014-2020\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.carolineboileau.com\/gallery\/2014-2020\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> showed dozens of thumbnail-sized images, one of which he used for the cover of <em>You Might Be Sorry You Read This<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/art-design\/index.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/art-design\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Alberta alumnus<\/a>, has won numerous awards in this competition over the years. Take a look!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/05\/AAUPdesignAwardCovers2_may23-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/05\/AAUPdesignAwardCovers2_may23-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/05\/AAUPdesignAwardCovers2_may23-1-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/05\/AAUPdesignAwardCovers2_may23-1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/05\/AAUPdesignAwardCovers2_may23-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/05\/AAUPdesignAwardCovers2_may23-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Brownoff has won another international award, this one from the AUPresses Book, Jacket, &amp; Journal Show for the cover design of You Might Be Sorry You Read This by Michelle Poirier Brown. Alan thinks of cover design as being a matchmaker, putting words and images together in unexpected ways. 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