Text: Ondřej Prokop
Triple bronze and gold on top
This June, the Most Beautiful Czech Books of 2024 were announced. In the last issue of our newsletter, we introduced you to the titles that were nominated, and we were honoured that they were printed by us. Did any of the books win any awards?
Sixty years ago, a competition was launched to draw public attention to the importance of the formal aspects of Czech books: covers, graphic design, illustrations, fonts, and bookbinding. A total of 309 projects were submitted to this year’s Most Beautiful Czech Books of the Year (NČKR) competition. The books competed in seven main categories again this year, and five special prizes were also awarded.
In this year’s competition, three titles that had “Printed and produced by FINIDR” in the imprint ended up on the winners’ podium. Specifically, they took bronze.
Specialized literature
Do we live humanely? (Iva Knobloch (ed.), published by: Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Slovart)
Beautiful literature
Flora (Jonáš Zbořil, published by: Paseka)
Beautiful literature
The Bicycle: the transport of the future (Ondřej Buddeus & Jindřich Janíček, published by Paseka)
The icing on the cake, and proof that FINIDR can produce books of the highest quality, is our first place in the category Award for Outstanding Printing.
Customs, Ceremonies, and Celebrations Among Different Nations of the World (Miroslav Huptych, published by Práh)
Congratulations to all authors and publishers! We are proud to have been consistently winning awards in this traditional Czech competition, which also recognizes the work of all Finidr employees.
