Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2014
Highly Commended
Designer Aaron Beehre Title Shane Cotton: The Hanging Sky by Justin Paton with Eliot Weinberger, Robert Leonard and Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow Publisher Christchurch Art Gallery Format 395 x 315mm, 192pp, hardback, cloth-covered, foil stamp on cover, blue gilt-edged pages
Judges’ Comments Choices concerning book size and production values give this wonderful book a real 'wow' factor, with gilt blue edges its crowning glory. Typography is applied with confidence, without ever overpowering the content. The temptations of the large format must have been high and the designer showed great restraint.