The judging committee of the Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prizes is pleased to announce that Isaac Morrier ’17 of Branford College has been selected as the winning designer in this year’s poster competition. His poster will be used to advertise this year’s competition for the Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prizes. The committee commends his poster’s lively, dimensionally ambiguous surface that references the ‘book as object.’ William Kortum ’19 of Calhoun College was awarded a second prize for his elegantly composed photographic poster, which is perhaps the most immediately legible of the entries received. Honorable mentions were awarded to Cezar Mocan ’17 of Davenport College and Cameron Nelson ’18 of Morse College. Mocan’s poster is honored for creating a richly illustrated evocation of the experience of reading. The custom ‘open book’ typography of the titling in Nelson’s entry received the committee’s commendation.
For more than half a century, student bibliophiles have been receiving prizes for the quality of their book collections, thanks to the generosity of Yale alumnus Adrian Van Sinderen (Class of 1910). In 1957 Van Sinderen established two prizes, awarding $1,000 to seniors and $700 to sophomores, in order to encourage undergraduates to collect books, build up libraries of their own, and read for pleasure and learning. In 2002 a poster competition was established; a $500 prize is awarded to the winning designer.