Edify Award for Best Educational Book or Series – Secondary/Tertiary 2020
Finalist
Designers: Cover: Carolyn Lewis
Interior: Carolyn Lewis and Katrina Duncan
Title: Dragonflies and Damselflies of New Zealand
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Format: 216 x 140mm, 168pp, flexibind. 4-colour print throughout with gloss machine varnish, flexi-cased in, round back on 350gsm art board with matt lamination, endpapers on matt art with gloss varnish.
Typography: Ideal Sans; Hiragino Maru Gothic; ProN; Whitney; Wingdings 3.
Photography by Mike Ashbee, endpaper illustrations by Albert Orr.
Judges’ comments Rich in photographic detail, this comprehensive study of Odonata in New Zealand is resource book doubling as a field guide with its slim and compact format. The dense information is displayed with clean and elegant typography in a way that doesn’t overwhelm. Other than the odd endpaper binding this is a tidy little package.
