Category Archives: 2018
Eat Up New Zealand— 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2018 FINALIST
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Homegrown Kitchen: Everyday recipes for eating well— 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2018 FINALIST
1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: An understated feeling, unfussy book in which the designer allows subtle variations within with type weight and sizes to echo the narrow depth of field of many of the focal foodstuffs … Continue reading
Turangawaewae — Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 FINALIST
Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: The design serves the content well, enlivening the book with text block pages. There are also lots of good break pages with clean and functional type setting. View shortlist
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New Zealand’s Great White Sharks: How science is revealing their secrets — Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 FINALIST
Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: Some stunning and arresting photography is a gift to the designer; in this field guide design meets encyclopaedia. It has an edgy design visual language which seems to position the … Continue reading
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The New Zealand Art Activity Book — Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 FINALIST
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How to Mend a Kea — Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 FINALIST
Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: The author/designer clearly possesses many, many skills. The clear main text setting, pull quotes and side bars sit comfortably and in an orderly fashion, as if a commentary to the … Continue reading
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Bright Ideas for Young Minds — Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 FINALIST
Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: The muted colour palette, shying from obvious vibrant primary colour, somehow works. Layouts are brought to life by some strong art direction on photography, which the designer uses to good … Continue reading
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Helper and Helper — Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2018 FINALIST
Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: Here the designer gives the illustrations and target audience reader very clear respect. Type setting is generous to both as well. Subdued colours conjure distant volumes of Aesop’s … Continue reading
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The Forest Cantina HOME — 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2018 FINALIST
1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: An elegant book with the designer bringing contemporary photographic content and lively typographic arrangements to capture so much personality of the lifestyle on display. Some neat touches with the transition to … Continue reading
Little Bird Goodness— 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2018 FINALIST
1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: This one is all about goodness. It starts with a sunshine yellow title, including a deboss and spot varnish to help it ‘pop’! Add the star author photo on the cover … Continue reading
