{"id":2264,"date":"2016-06-30T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2016-06-30T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T16:18:49","slug":"exhibition-alcuin-society-book-design-awards-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/exhibition-alcuin-society-book-design-awards-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: Alcuin Society Book Design Awards 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2266\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2016\/06\/AwardsLogo-215x300.png\" alt=\"AwardsLogo-215x300\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/>We are\u00a0pleased to unveil the newest edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/alcuinsociety.com\/awards\/\">Alcuin Society Awards Exhibition for Excellence in Book Design in Canada<\/a>. Since 1981, The Alcuin Society organizes a friendly annual competition to appreciate and enjoy the best-designed books across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Books are chosen from 8 different categories: Children\u2019s, Limited Editions, Pictorial, Poetry, Prose: Fiction, Prose: Non-Fiction, Prose: Non-Fiction (Illustrated), and Reference. Chosen from over 200 submissions, the\u00a0award-winners are celebrated because of their ability to demonstrate exceptional visual design concepts corresponding with the intellectual nature of the content itself.<\/p>\n<p>The travelling exhibition will be showcased from coast to coast across Canada, from June\u00a02016-March 2017, as well as in several international venues, including the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo and international book fairs in Frankfurt and Leipzig. A complete\u00a0list of exhibition venues is available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/alcuinsociety.com\/awards\/award-and-exhibition-venues\/\">Alcuin website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a02015 exhibition is on\u00a0display in the lobby of the 4<sup>th<\/sup> floor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/branches\/hssl\">Humanities and Social Sciences Library,\u00a0McLennan Library Building<\/a>\u00a0until the end of July.\u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2269\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2269\" class=\"wp-image-2269\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2016\/06\/IMG_7016.jpg\" alt=\"sdfsd\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2016\/06\/IMG_7016.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2016\/06\/IMG_7016-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Award Category: Children&#8217;s<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2268\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2268\" class=\"wp-image-2268\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2016\/06\/IMG_7018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"asdsd\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2016\/06\/IMG_7018-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2016\/06\/IMG_7018.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Award Category: Prose Non-Fiction Illustrated<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are\u00a0pleased to unveil the newest edition of the Alcuin Society Awards Exhibition for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. Since 1981, The Alcuin Society organizes a friendly annual competition to appreciate and enjoy the best-designed books across the nation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/exhibition-alcuin-society-book-design-awards-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}