This year’s catalogue documents the selected books while exploring the wider context surrounding them through portraits, interviews and editorial contributions. More than an overview of the year’s best book projects, it is a publication about book design as an artistic, cultural and material field, and about economics, production, collaboration, formats and the many choices that lie behind every book.
The catalogue reflects a field in motion, where professionalism, an understanding of materials and a love of books meet curiosity, experimentation and renewal. It considers the book not only as a finished object, but as the result of processes, relationships, decisions and as a space in which something can happen.
Since 1934, The Best Danish Book Design has highlighted outstanding achievements in Danish book design and craftsmanship. Organised by Forening for Boghaandværk, founded in 1888, the annual selection reflects developments in the book as a designed, produced and material object.
The 2026 selection brings together classic examples of book design, where content, structure, typography, paper, printing and binding form a precise whole, alongside publications that challenge conventional ideas of what a book can be. Together, they offer a view of contemporary Danish bookmaking grounded in a long tradition of craftsmanship while remaining open to new forms, methods and ways of thinking about the book.
22,5 cm × 32 cm
212 pages
Softcover
Danish and English language
Designed by Alexis Mark
Published by Forening for Boghaandværk & At Last Books
Published August 2026
ISBN 978-87-85336-17-0
ISSN 1903-3990
This year’s catalogue documents the selected books while exploring the wider context surrounding them through portraits, interviews and editorial contributions. More than an overview of the year’s best book projects, it is a publication about book design as an artistic, cultural and material field, and about economics, production, collaboration, formats and the many choices that lie behind every book.
The catalogue reflects a field in motion, where professionalism, an understanding of materials and a love of books meet curiosity, experimentation and renewal. It considers the book not only as a finished object, but as the result of processes, relationships, decisions and as a space in which something can happen.
Since 1934, The Best Danish Book Design has highlighted outstanding achievements in Danish book design and craftsmanship. Organised by Forening for Boghaandværk, founded in 1888, the annual selection reflects developments in the book as a designed, produced and material object.
The 2026 selection brings together classic examples of book design, where content, structure, typography, paper, printing and binding form a precise whole, alongside publications that challenge conventional ideas of what a book can be. Together, they offer a view of contemporary Danish bookmaking grounded in a long tradition of craftsmanship while remaining open to new forms, methods and ways of thinking about the book.
22,5 cm × 32 cm
212 pages
Softcover
Danish and English language
Designed by Alexis Mark
Published by Forening for Boghaandværk & At Last Books
Published August 2026
ISBN 978-87-85336-17-0
ISSN 1903-3990
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