Aberhart Starts Here — Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2018 FINALIST

Penguin Random House New Zealand
Award for Best Illustrated Book 2018

Finalist

Aberhart Starts Here front Cover image

Designer: Peter Bray, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Title:  Aberhart Starts Here
Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Format: 220 x 220mm, 136pp, hardback, section sewn.
Paper: Gardapat Kiara, a dense stock well suited to art reproductions.  All photographs were printed CMYK and carefully colour-matched and corrected to Laurence’s original artwork. A colour polaroid of a Christchurch building was chosen to highlight a little known side of Lawrence’s work while still retaining the classic ’emptiness’ of the artist’s practice.

Typography: National, semi-bold, 15 point on 18 point leading.  The bespoke cover font was designed by Peter Bray based on the hand painted sign in the photograph of D & A Car Wreckers on pages 38-39.

Judges’ Comments: The layout inside is clean, crisp and beautifully minimal which gives the images a chance to shine.  The format and size are nice.


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