HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018
Finalist
Designer: Kate Barraclough, Kate Frances Design
Title: Black Marks on the White Page
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Format: 210 x 135mm, 336pp, hardback. Two sided artwork on jacket. Jacket: gloss art over wibalin buckram white 500.
Jacket artwork specially commissioned from James Ormsby.
Typography: Neutra Display Light 49 pt / 46 pt leading (title); Neutra Display Medium 21 pt / 23 pt leading (author name); Adobe Garamond Pro regular 11 pt / 13 pt leading (blurb)
Judges’ Comments: The stunning, symbolic artwork that extends from the front cover to inside the dust jacket features the specially commissioned illustration Tangia te papa ma ki te pango by James Ormsby and is a kind of indigenous cartography, the work beginning with Whakapapa and moving through to a map of the Polynesian Islands and finishes with the North Star. This attention to detail of cover design reflects the purpose of this anthology of Oceanic writing.
