I am the Universe — PANZ Award for Best Typography 2021 FINALIST

PANZ
Award for Best Typography 2021

Finalist

Designer: Vasanti Unka
Title: I Am the Universe
Publisher: Penguin Random House NZ
Format: 310 x 240mm, 32pp.
Cover: PLC, square-backed, matt lam plus spot gloss. Text: 157gsm matt art
Typography: Internals: Helvetica, MaldenSans, varying sizes and weights according to hierarchy of text. Cover: Hand lettered, plus Univers LT Std, varying sizes and weights according to hierarchy of text

 

Judges’ comments The complete package – a large, luscious hardback complete with over-gloss varnish that makes the stars twinkle. The book includes vivid, playful, dynamic illustrations that tour around the universe, and are both colourful and inventive. A myriad of analogue/digital techniques, surfaces and textures – paint, watercolour, crayon and cut-outs – are employed, making this book full of lovely detail and whimsy. The text/hand-lettering is well integrated and small, which helps the sense of vastness and scale. This book universally appeals to a wide audience.

View shortlist