The Most Beautiful Swiss Books
As part of SPRINT—Independent Publishers & Artists’ Books Salon 2025
As part of SPRINT—Independent Publishers & Artists’ Books Salon 2025
Istituto Svizzero presents the twenty titles designated The Most Beautiful Swiss Books, the prestigious competition held by the Federal Office of Culture that brings together the best of Swiss publishing. Each year, the award celebrates the work of the most talented book designers and their outstanding achievements in book production and art, highlighting and promoting high-quality works that reflect contemporary trends. A traveling exhibition is organized annually in Switzerland and abroad as a promotional measure to share and consolidate skills related to book design.
Read the list of the awarded titles here.
As part of SPRINT—Independent Publishers and Artists’ Books Salon.
Award-winning books will be on display on 29 to 30 of November during SPRINT’s fair bringing together independents at Spazio Maiocchi. The display will continue at Ten Thousand Feet from December 2 to December 15.
28.—30.11.2025
SPRINT
Spazio Maiocchi
Via Achille Maiocchi 5, Milan
Friday H18:00-21:00
Saturday-Sunday H11:00-21:00
02.—15.12.2025
Ten Thousand Feet
Via Filippino Lippi 10, Milan
Monday-Saturday H11:00-17:00
Closed on Sunday
The initiative is organized in collaboration with the Federal Office of Culture.
SPRINT is a non-profit artist-led project, devoted to investigate – with an intersectional approach – the multiple ways in which contents, supports and languages emerge in publishing. We welcome small projects and complex productions that cross experimentation, researching and archives with attitude.
Books as hooks to be hauled down new paths, discover alternative perspectives and approach multiple voices, often stressing forms and formats, in a dance of the perimeter and symphony of the sequence, performing pages.
Every last weekend of November SPRINT—Independent Publishers and Artists’ Books Salon’s program includes an Art Book Fair (SMABF), Talks, Workshops, Exhibitions, Performances and a Fundraising Party.
The SMABF tables are cost-free for all selected exhibitors as a sign of tangible support to the community, as the access for the public. The first edition took place in Milano in 2013.
Since 2019 we promote itinerant Warm Ups to develop projects focused on unique titles and specific publishing adventures, furthermore we occasional organize itinerant Spin Offs of the Art Book Fair and we are building a growing Archive of fanzines, books and magazines.
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