Category Archives: Shortlist
Aberhart Starts Here — Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2018 FINALIST
Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: The layout inside is clean, crisp and beautifully minimal which gives the images a chance to shine. The format and size are nice. View shortlist
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Tears of Rangi — Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2018 FINALIST
Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: Integrity of design meets that of the subject. The dust jacket (perhaps a few voices involved with the multiple images?) conceals the real gem of the designer’s eye. These … Continue reading
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Simply Sailing in a New Direction. Allan Curnow: A Biography and Allen Curnow: Collected Poems (slipcase) — Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2018 FINALIST
Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2018 Finalist View shortlist
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Selected Poems: Ian Wedde — Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2018 FINALIST
Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: A playful cover that hints at the hand being present at the start of a process. Generous margins and some discreet yet deliberate typographic settings and spacings support the … Continue reading
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Strangers Arrive — Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2018 FINALIST
Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: This is an elegantly presented book with beautiful peachy detail under the dust jacket. Clean, simple, effective design. It looks great on the shop floor, nice … Continue reading
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Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand — Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2017 FINALIST
Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments Intriguing and playful cover, assuming the language of maps, but divulging coordinates of poetry or location details. The restricted colour palette works, and the change of place and change of … Continue reading
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Fits & Starts — HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2017 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments Subtle and classical, this cover has a striking but simple idea at the heart of the design. The hand-lettered type is a perfect manifestation of the book’s title. Judicious use of … Continue reading
Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show — HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2017 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments An approachable and conceptually clever production. It teases, but acknowledges the intelligence of the contemporary art viewer. The judges loved the texture given by the white halftone screen. With four different … Continue reading
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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