Judges — PANZ Book Design Awards 2021
The judges for the 2021 PANZ Book Design Awards are; Simon Waterfield, Senior Designer at Lift Education (convenor); graphic designer and founder of graphic design studio Practise, James Goggin; Fay McAlpine, graphic designer and lecturer at Massey University College of Creative Arts, Toi Rauwhārangi, and award-winning graphic novelist and illustrator Ant Sang.
Convening Judge Simon Waterfield
Simon Waterfield (convenor) is a designer at Lift Education, with expertise in educational and literacy design and children’s publishing. He works on the a range of material, including the School Journal and Connected. These series allow him to collaborate with an expansive range of writers, illustrators, and photographers. Simon holds a Bachelor of Design from Wellington Polytechnic/Victoria University and has previously worked at Wellington Media Collective, Base2, and Learning Media. Simon has been previously shortlisted for the PANZ book design awards, and has chaired sessions with children’s book creators Oliver Jeffers and Leo Timmers. He has also twice judged The Arts Foundation’s Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award (2015 and 2017). Simon is deeply passionate about comics, children’s publishing, and the use of design to explain the world to young, curious minds.
James Goggin
James Goggin is a Tāmaki Makaurau and Providence, Rhode Island-based British and/or Australian creative director, graphic designer, and teacher from London via Sydney, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Arnhem, and Chicago. He founded a design practice named Practise with partner Shan James in London upon graduation from the Royal College of Art in 1999, working on architectural, civic, cultural, and publishing projects in Europe, Asia, Australasia, and North America. Until recently serving as Associate Professor, James is now a thesis critic at Rhode Island School of Design and previously taught at Werkplaats Typografie in the Netherlands and at École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ÉCAL) in Switzerland. Alongside Practise, James has consulted for Tate Modern and Tate Britain, worked as Art Director of British music magazine The Wire, and as Director of Design and Publishing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. He designs typefaces for various projects and for Swiss foundry Lineto, and regularly writes, lectures, and exhibits internationally. James sits on the editorial board of architecture magazine Flat Out, was inducted as a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale in 2010, and has works included in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Chicago Design Archive.
Fay McAlpine
Fay McAlpine is a graphic designer and educator with a passion for typography. She is a co-ordinator and lecturer for typographic papers in the design programme at Massey University College of Creative Arts, Toi Rauwhārangi. Her subjects range from fundamental principles to typography for information, editorial design, and advanced interpretative typography. Her students have won many awards. She is an active member of the International Society of Typographic Designers and an assessor for the South Pacific student membership assessment. She has been a judge for the New Zealand Best awards.
Ant Sang
Ant Sang is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Auckland. He is the author of graphic novels The Dharma Punks, Shaolin Burning, and co-author of Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas. His graphic novels have been published in the US, UK, Canada, France, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand; his work has been awarded at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, and selected for the White Ravens Catalogue. He has produced comics and illustrations for anthologies, children’s books and educational publications.
He has worked in film and television as head designer on the animated television show bro’Town, and produced artwork for feature documentary Notes to Eternity.
He has appeared at writers and comics festivals in Shanghai, Beijing, Taiwan, Bali, Toronto and New Zealand. He has taught comics at MIT, and currently teaches visual storytelling at Unitec.
PANZ employs a strict conflict of interest policy and no judge is permitted to have their book design work entered into the awards. Where a judge has a perceived conflict of interest with a book, publisher or designer they will recuse themselves from judging the relevant category. This process is closely monitored by PANZ.
