Category Archives: Typography

Huia Come Home — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2018 FINALIST

Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: Quiet and confident, this small volume is an excellent example of typesetting that is at once humble and sympathetic to its content. The choice of Feijoa, a fellow native, is faithful … Continue reading

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Annual — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 WINNER

Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 Winner Judges’ Comments The typography in this book design has a hard job to do, a demanding audience, not only the readers but the contributors. So many different voices to accommodate. But, largely the … Continue reading

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Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 FINALIST

Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments  Any art book with academic tendencies or at least that tends towards that audience, inherits many typographic prerequisites and this book delivers across footnotes, plate numbers, parenthesis, captions, glossary and through … Continue reading

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Cazador — game, offal and the rest — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 FINALIST

Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments Contemporary typography meets a very traditional approach to cooking, and acknowledges the decade when it all started the 1980s. Time-honoured butchery techniques and family recipes are energised by strong hierarchy of … Continue reading

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Beach Life — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 FINALIST

Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments The typography here carries with it the energies and spirit of the beach. It has tonal ‘weights’ of the stained wet sands at high water marks, it ventures into restrained, sun … Continue reading

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Annual — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 FINALIST

Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments The typography in this book design has a hard job of work to do, a demanding audience, not only the readers but the contributors. So many different voices to accommodate. But, … Continue reading

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Little Gems — WINNER Mary Egan Ltd Award for Best Typography 2016

Mary Egan Ltd Award for Best Typography 2016 Winner Judges’ Comments.  The winner pushes typography outside of its usual boundaries in a book for adults. In Little Gems, the words don’t just complement the illustrations, the words become the illustrations. … Continue reading

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James K Baxter: Complete Prose — Mary Egan Ltd Award for Best Typography 2016 FINALIST

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Coast, Country, Neighbourhood, City — Mary Egan Ltd Award for Best Typography 2016 FINALIST

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Little Gems — Mary Egan Ltd Award for Best Typography 2016 FINALIST

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