PANZ
Award for Best Typography 2021
Finalist
Designers: Jo Bailey & Anna Brown (Principal Designers), Toi Rauwharangi / College of Creative Arts Massey University.
Additional support: Richard Reddaway (images) and Sarah Hall (Tales from Elsewhere mini-book)
Title: It does no harm to wonder / the body of the work
Publisher: Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History
Format: 250 x 210mm,184pp, perfect bound, incorporating overgloss text on cover and offset printed pagefold; cardboard display box with die cut stickers, hand-applied rubber stamp; bespoke folded plan/poster; perfect bound mini book printed on Eco100 with Turquoise Colourplan cover.
Typography: Cover lock up: Orientation by Commercial Type (with modifications)
Section headings: Orientation (Commercial Type)
Essay headings: Graphik (Commercial Type) semibold + light 35pt on 39, -10 tracking
Section entry text: Graphik medium 21pt on 26, -20 tracking
Body text: Graphik regular 10pt on 13, -10 tracking
‘Script’ text: (pp.37-45) Pitch (Klim Type) medium 10pt on 13
Tales from Elsewhere mini-book
Headings: Bluu Next (Velvetyne Type Foundry) bold 28pt on 32; Graphik regular 24pt on 28
Body: Quadraat (FontFont) regular 10.5pt on 14.5
For more details see https://fontsinuse.com/uses/35629/it-does-no-harm-to-wonder-the-body-of-the-wor
Judges’ comments New typography – tries to present text in a new, interesting, experimental way that pushes the boundaries of a conventional book. It’s an assemblage of parts contained in a box. The overall package is an avant-garde collection, celebrating Reddaway’s work in the maker-player mode of the artist himself. It’s eclectic in style – a bit of Bauhaus/punk/geometric. This is a visually stimulating piece of work that demonstrates considered typographic experimentation and craft. The materials, size, feel, layout, pacing, typography and colour choices all work very effectively to create a distinctive outcome.
