Penguin Random House New Zealand
Award for Best Illustrated Book 2018
Finalist
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.