Judges — PANZ Book Design Awards 2023

The judges for the 2023 PANZ Book Design Awards are; David Coventon graphic designer and communication design educator (convenor); graphic designer, researcher and design educator Jo Bailey, artist and designer Neil Pardington, and Jenna Todd manager at Time Out Bookstore and freelance photographer.

Convening Judge David Coventon

David Coventon is a Graphic Designer and Communication Design Educator with almost 30 years’ experience. After graduating from Central Saint Martins’ Masters in Graphic Design, David co-founded and managed start up studio two:Design London, in Camden for 8 years. The studio grew a portfolio across Music, Arts and Publishing clients, the nature of which David took into subsequent freelance work. First tempted into visiting lecturer work at University of East London, he subsequently became Graphic Design Bachelor course leader at Camberwell College of Arts. Whilst in that role he was a key member of the staff and student team that re-started the Camberwell Press just before the biggest temptation of moving with his family — and huge library of beautiful design books! — to Aotearoa. Settling in Tāmaki Makaurau he has been visiting lecturer at Unitec, had a five-year spell as in house graphic designer brand at Auckland Museum and just completed five years as a senior lecturer at AUT. He is currently at the end of two years serving as the Education Board member of Designers Institute New Zealand (DINZ) and looking forward to the next temptation to present itself…

Jenna Todd

Jenna Todd (Kāi Tahu) is the manager of Time Out Bookstore in Mt Eden, which was named in the top three bookstores in the world in 2017. A regular reviewer of books on RNZ’s Nine to Noon and 95bFM’s breakfast show, Jenna was named Young Bookseller of the Year in 2015, was a fiction judge for the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and the convenor of judges for the 2022 PANZ Book Design Awards. She has recently retired as Chair of Booksellers Aotearoa NZ and as a member of the New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Alongside her work in the book industry, Jenna has completed Te Whānautanga o te Ao Tikanga from Te Wananga o Aotearoa and is currently completing her diploma in Te Aupikitanga ki te Reo Kairangi. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Dunedin School of Art and works as a freelance photographer.

Jo Bailey

Jo Bailey (she/they) is a graphic designer, researcher and design educator at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts Massey University in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. The designer of many books (and a previous PANZ Book Design Award winner herself), Jo enjoys the small canvas, be that a book cover, or the stamps she designed in 2022 honouring women in science (a side-project of her PhD research in science in society). You can see Jo’s work at makinggood.design.

Neil Pardington

Neil Pardington (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) is an artist and designer based in Wellington. One of New Zealand’s most established and widely exhibited contemporary photographers, his series The Clinic, The Vault, and The Order of Things document the operating and storage areas within hospitals and museums. These critically acclaimed works take into account the history and practices of medicine and of collecting.

Founding director of Eyework Design (1989–2004), Creative Director at Base Two (2005–2016), Neil is now Creative Director of Neil Pardington Design. A focus of his career has been his work in the arts sector where he has designed many projects

 

 

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.