Judges — PANZ Book Design Awards 2018
The judges for the 2018 PANZ Book Design Awards are; Senior Lecturer on the Communication Design Bachelor at AUT David Coventon, MA PGCE (convenor), 2017 PANZ Book Design Award winning designer and typographer and Associate Professor at the School of Design at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University Anna Brown, Alt Group multi-disciplinary designer and another previous PANZ Book Design Award winner Janson Chau and Kiran Dass, writer, reviewer and book buyer for Time Out book store in Auckland.
Convening Judge David Coventon, MA PGCE
A graduate of the Masters in Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins, David Coventon has over twenty five years experience across Music, Arts and Publishing client base in London and Auckland. Co-founder of two:design London, then Course leader of the Bachelor in Graphic Design at Camberwell College, he was a key member of the staff and student team that re-started the Camberwell Press. David worked as graphic designer at Auckland Museum in the Brand and Customer Engagement team for four years including overseeing the brand refresh of early 2018, but his ‘calling’ saw him return to Higher education in March when he took a Senior Lecturer position teaching graphic design on the Communication Design Bachelor at AUT School of Art & Design. Getting a letterpress studio established in the sleep out to bring words to life in print is on the horizon… fellow letterpress lovers please do get in touch for collaboration opportunities.
Anna Brown
Anna Brown is a New Zealand-based designer and typographer. She works collaboratively in book design exploring innovative narrative forms that result in gallery-based experimental book installations and participatory performance works as well as catalogues and artists’ books. Through multiple projects with visual artists and musicians, much of her work investigates the concept of the expanded book in a digital age. She has taught for eight years in the School of Design at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington. Anna’s current role there is Associate Professor and Director: Projects and Partnerships.
In 2017 Anna and her co-designer Jo Bailey won the PANZ Book Design Award for Best Non-Illustrated book with Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Janson Chau
Janson Chau was born in Hong Kong, immigrating to New Zealand in 1994. Since joining Alt Group as a designer in 2010, Janson has been involved in graphic, experiential, digital and print design. He has been involved in the design, production and publication of a number of modest books and continues his obsession with the form of the book and a reader’s interaction with idea and content.
Alt Group is a multi-disciplinary design studio based in Auckland, New Zealand. Since 2005, Alt Group has been recognised in over 500 international and national awards.
Janson was a winner in the 2015 PANZ Book Design Awards with Cardboard Cathedral, taking out the Best Illustrated, Best Typography and overall Best Book awards.
Kiran Dass
Kiran Dass is the book buyer for Time Out Bookstore in Mt Eden, Auckland and has twelve years of experience in the book trade. A writer and reviewer, Kiran has covered books and music for the NZ Herald, NZ Listener, Sunday magazine, Sunday Star-Times, Landfall, Metro,The Spinoff, Pantograph Punch and The Wire (UK), and regularly reviews books on RNZ’s Nine to Noon and Auckland’s 95bFM. Twitter: @SteelyDass
