Nkemdiche wins this year’s AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers Competition

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Nkemdiche Wins This Year’s 50 Books | 50 Covers Competition

image courtesy of Span showing 6 books featured in the AIGA article

The cover of Nkemdiche - Why We Do Not Grow Beards has been selected by American Institute of Graphic Arts - AIGA as a winner of the highly coveted 50 Books | 50 Covers design award this year. Big thanks to Nick Adam & Bud Rodecker of Span for their submission and for their great work on the cover and particular typesetting of Nkemdiche. Another big thank you to the illustrator of Nkemdiche - Lucie Van der Elst for adapting her papercut techniques to enrich and bring to life the visual feast that grace the colorful pages of the book. Thank you for continuing to support our work at Okpara House!

image courtesy of Span with Nkemdiche being held by obiora nwazota

Press and Media Links

AIGA - Six Great Book Covers and the Stories Behind Them (featuring Nkemdiche)

AIGA - Nkemdiche in the AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers Gallery

The Chicago Tribune - Obi Nwazota’s ‘Nkemdiche’ looks at Black hair through lens of African folklore

(images above courtesy of Span, photography Valdis Kaulins Imagine Studio)

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