Category Archives: Shortlist
Te Tiriti o Waitangi The Treaty of Waitangi — Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2020 FINALIST
Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2020 Finalist Judges’ comments Every home, school and office should have a copy of this book. Teaching young (and old) minds about the Treaty of Waitangi in the form of a bi-lingual … Continue reading
Wildlife of Aotearoa — Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2020 FINALIST
Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2020 Finalist Judges’ comments This book is huge. Not just in format, but in scope and imagination. A companion to Bishop’s earlier book Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story, Wildlife of Aotearoa and … Continue reading
What Can I Do When I Grow Up? — Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2020 FINALIST
Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2020 Finalist Typography: Primary font: Arnhem, 12pt. Display font: GT Walshiem, multiple sizes. The primary typeface is Arnhem, designed by Fred Smeijers in 2002. All body type is set at 12pt without … Continue reading
ART-TASTIC — Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2019 FINALIST
Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2019 Finalist Judges’ comments: “Bold and irreverent, with an illustrative and playful use of type, and a fun use of vernacular, referencing film, tv, low brow design, internet memes etc. It is definitely taking … Continue reading
Te Kani Price – 2019 Young Designer of the year FINALIST
ALLEN & UNWIN YOUNG DESIGNER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 Te Kani Price Title: Treasures of Tāne by Rob Tipa Publisher: Huia Publishers View shortlist
My Indian Kitchen — 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2019 FINALIST
1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2019 Finalist Judges’ comments: “Nine times out of ten I’ll eat Indian food after dark so for me the dark settings of the majority of the food photography works very well and the vibrant … Continue reading
Always Delicious: Favourite Recipes from the New Zealand Listener — 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2019 FINALIST
1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2019 Finalist View shortlist
Swim: A Year of Swimming Outdoors in New Zealand — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2019 FINALIST
Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2019 Finalist Judges’ comments: “There’s a calm quietness to the typography of Swim; it takes some confidence to rely on one typeface throughout. Typographic differentiation is achieved solely through size weight and style, … Continue reading
Us v Them: Tony de Lautour (collector’s edition) — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2019 FINALIST
Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2019 Finalist Judges’ comments: “There’s a complexity to this book and a rawness to the art and its placement on the page. The split of Us v Them, making a distinction between earlier … Continue reading
ART-TASTIC — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2019 FINALIST
Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2019 Finalist Judges’ comments: “Vernacular typography is the name of the game in ART-TASTIC, with different typographic choices responding to each piece of content. A seam of consistency is carried throughout in the typographic … Continue reading