Award-winning book cover design by Lauren Michelle Smith

Lauren Michelle Smith, Hite Art Institute Graphic Design BFA ’11, has received three awards for her book cover designs at the University of Chicago Press. Her design for the cover of Making Marie Curie by Eva Hemmings Wirten was recognized in two different design competitions. It was selected for “50 Books/50 Covers,” a prestigious competition started by AIGA in 1923 that is run annually. The competition is juried by respected designers and is now managed by Design Observer. The same cover was also one of 40 out of 348 entries selected for the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Book, Jacket and Journal Show for 2016.

In 2015, another cover design by Smith — Walls: Enclosures and Ethics in the Modern Landscape by Thomas Oles — was also selected for the AAUP competition.

After completing her BFA in 2011 in graphic design, Lauren was one of four recent graduates from around the country selected for Chronicle Books (San Francisco) Fellows program — a six-month fellowship program in the world of book design. Lauren received the position for the Children’s Book Fellow. After completing her fellowship, Smith continued to work at Chronicle full-time for an additional year as a contract designer.

In June 2013, Smith was hired by the University of Chicago Press, where she was recently promoted to Senior Designer.

Book design cover

Book Design by Lauren Smith