This Year's Judges:
Susan Colberg is Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, where she teaches beginning and advanced typography, information design and the practice of graphic design to graduate and undergraduate students. Her practice focuses on book and publication design and her clients include a variety of institutional and scholarly publishing houses in Canada and the U.S. She has won numerous national and international awards for her work and is Past-president of the of Alberta Chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada.
Val Speidel is a book designer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her professional practice focuses on project/ print management and editorial design with an emphasis on trade books, covering the areas of art direction and design, photo research, illustration and photography. She was a principal partner at Press Gang Publishers from 1986-93, and Art Director at Raincoast books in 2001. Since 1994 she has maintained a freelance design practice; her clients include trade publishers in Canada and the U.S. She has won numerous national awards for her work.
Andrew Steeves is the co-owner, senior editor & typographer of Gaspereau Press, printers & publishers, Kentville, Nova Scotia. After completing degrees in criminology and English literature, he embarked on a career of reading, writing, editing, designing, printing, binding, promoting and selling books. His design frequently marries modern and antiquated design and production techniques in an attempt to bring a private press sensibility to bear on trade and commercial design. He lives in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.