HarperCollins Award for Best Cover
Shortlist 2012
 | Designer Saskia Nicol Title Tupaia by Joan Druett Publisher Random House New Zealand Format 234 x 153mm, 440pp, unjacketed hardback with printed laminated case, matt lamination, section sewn Judges’ comments An evocative, attractive cover, and we liked the spine too! |
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 | Designer Aaron Beehre Title CSA: The Radical, the Reactionary and the Canterbury Society of Arts 1880–1996 by Warren Feeney Publisher Canterbury University Press Format 265 x 240mm, 224pp, jacketed hardback, matt lamination, section sewn Judges’ comments We loved the use of copper metallic ink on the cover, the typographic elegance, the proportions of colour and font, and the use of the quiet, modernist black and white photograph. Stupendous! |
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 | Designer Anna Egan-Reid Title Janet Frame in Her Own Words by Janet Frame Publisher Penguin Books New Zealand Format 181 x 111mm, 264pp, jacketed hardback, unlaminated Judges’ comments This was a warm and sophisticated cover. It seems the designer was interested in Janet Frame as a person, and had taken the time to read and think about her and the era she lived in. |
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