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"Each year since 1932, an expert jury selects The Best Dutch Book Designs for display in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. In more recent years, a parallel student jury with members from different art academies was installed to make an independent selection, to offer a glimpse of their vision as the next generation of book designers. From 267 submissions in 2020, the student jury has selected 30 books.

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Excerpts of these interviews with bookmakers have been framed in the student selection catalogue ‘Conversation Snippets’. These interviews offer an interesting insight into Dutch book design in 2020 and book design generally, because these were held by curious design students, who know enough, and not too much, to ask the right questions. When I asked them what had surprised them the most, they told me that even established designers who have designed many books always find new things to do and learn, and in a sense remain lifetime students."