1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2021
Winner
Designers: Cat Taylor and Rachel Clark
Title: Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine
Publisher: Penguin Random House NZ
Format: 265 x 200mm, 272pp.
Reverse Quarter Bound, 3 piece PLC, square-backed, head and tail bands, silk screen to cloth, deboss to case plus matt lam and spot gloss.
Text: 140gsm woodfree
Endpapers: PMS 2025U
Judges’ comments The cover’s reverse binding and textural use of debossing, along with the subtle UV gloss of the karaka berries, invites you into Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine.
The use of white space and the typography choices – contemporary sans and serif faces – make for a clear and open layout. These same typography choices also make for a distinctive separation of the recipes section of the book from what precedes it – a comprehensive and authoritative guide to kai Māori.
There’s a consistency and warmth to the photography – the earthiness of imagery accompanying Monique’s story is carried through to the recipe photography, with the shallow depth of field used in the photography being a stylistic motif. It’s a delight to see that the photographers, Manja and Amber-Jayne, have taken cues from each other to create a seamless visual whole.
A beautifully produced and important book for Aotearoa.
