Category Archives: Typography

Te Herenga Waka University Press Award for Best Typography 2022 Finalist Designer: Floor van Lierop, This is Them Title:  He Ringatoi O Ngā Tūpuna Publisher: Potton & Burton Format: 295 x 230mm, 388pp hardback with jacket Typography: Morison Serif in … Continue reading →

Te Herenga Waka University Press Award for Best Typography 2022 Finalist Designer: Aaron Beehre Title:  Bill Hammond: Across the Evening Sky Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Format: 290 x 240mm, 240pp, hard cover, folded poster-sized dust jacket, … Continue reading →

PANZ Award for Best Typography 2021 Finalist Judges’ comments A solid and confident design, from the playful title typography and colour over a perfectly selected and cropped photo, to the immaculate typesetting throughout, finished with contrasting endpapers and head and … Continue reading →

PANZ Award for Best Typography 2021 Finalist Judges’ comments A strong, contemporary cover design with extras, such as gatefolds, extending out of the book. This compilation of three different poets reflects how writing poetry involves testing and playing with multiple … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

PANZ Award for Best Typography 2021 Finalist Designer: Aaron Beehre Title:  Lockdown: Tales from Aotearoa Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Format: 275 x 195mm, 108pp. Case bound cover printed with fluorescent pink, cyan, yellow and black inks. … Continue reading →

PANZ Award for Best Typography 2021 Finalist Designers: Arch MacDonnell and Alexandra Turner, Inhouse Design Title:  Billy Apple®: Life/Work Publisher: Auckland University Press Format: 240 x 170mm, 400pp, hardback. Case: PLC-wrapped 2mm box board, bookblock flush with case; French-folded jacket … Continue reading →

PANZ Award for Best Typography 2021 Finalist Designers: Katrina Duncan, Kieran E. Scott and Tam West Title:  DOT Publisher: Penguin Random House NZ Format: 165 x 120mm, 152pp. Cover: PLC, square-backed, head and tail bands, wibalin buckram x 5 different … Continue reading →

PANZ Award for Best Typography 2021 Finalist Judges’ comments The complete package – a large, luscious hardback complete with over-gloss varnish that makes the stars twinkle. The book includes vivid, playful, dynamic illustrations that tour around the universe, and are … Continue reading →