Designer Book Binders and the Booker Prize This year, there were seven designers with two of them working for the same book — Dominic Riley, Derek Hood, Kate Holland, Lori Sauer, Rachel Ward-Sale, Sue Doggett and Stuart Brockman Shrestha Saha | | Published 13.12.20, 08:47 PM A tradition that dates back to 30 years, Designer Book Binders UK is a known name for those ardently following the Booker Prize for Fiction. In an honour bestowed upon the author, the story of a Booker-nominated book is redesigned and bound, a copy of which is sent to the respective author. This is no mean feat as a design fellow at DBB UK has to read the book, understand what it stands for, create a design that would fit the narrative and then painstakingly create the cover by hand. It is famously said that each cover takes up to 150-plus hours of work and six designers, every year, come together to create the final product, which is magnificent to look at while also being a beautiful interpretation of the book. This year too, it was no different. Because of the pandemic, one could keep a tab on the progress of the covers coming together on the social media pages of the Booker Prize and the covers have all finally been revealed and sent to the respective authors, much to their exaltations.