Category Archives: Shortlist
New China Eyewitness: Roger Duff, Rewi Alley and the art of museum diplomacy— HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 FINALIST
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The Long Dream of Waking: New perspectives on Len Lye — HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: Arresting and modernist. Does what it says on the tin — a film maker and visual artist cleverly shown in focus. The spot gloss varnish is a neat trick. The … Continue reading
Huia Come Home— HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: An ‘idea’ driven cover. It is a restrained approach but executed with elegance and simplicity. Tail feather meets drip of ink to the author’s name. Darkness and light – the … Continue reading
Black Marks on the White Page — HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: The stunning, symbolic artwork that extends from the front cover to inside the dust jacket features the specially commissioned illustration Tangia te papa ma ki te pango by James Ormsby … Continue reading
Baby — HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: This bold cover with its simple but striking image piques interest and curiosity. Easy to pick up and want to explore more. View shortlist
Aberhart Starts Here— HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: Aberhart is probably best known for his atmospheric black and white photography, so the cover here is a pleasant surprise with its bluish teal and brown cover image. Striking in … Continue reading
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
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