Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography
Highly Commended 2013
 | Designer Alan Deare (Area Design) Title On Song: Stories Behind New Zealand’s Pop Classics by Simon Sweetman Publisher Penguin Group Format 260 x 210mm, 240pp, hardback, section sewn, head and tail bands Font Set in Galaxie Copernicus Medium 8.5/11.2 with artist pull quotes in heavy italic 10/12pt and headings in Cg Futura Maxi Bd Judges' Comments The bold design of On Song really captures the subject and draws in the reader with its reference to popular culture. Alan says, ‘We went for a boldness and simplicity, the killer hook and the repetition.’ The use of Futura works with its bolder weights and geometric forms such as the ‘o’, which references the record. |
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