Scholastic New Zealand Award
for Best Children’s Book 2022
Finalist
Designer: Ross Murray
Title: Muki and Pickles
Publisher: Beatnik Publishing
Format: 210 x 280mm (landscape), 32pp, hardcover, section sewn, layflat binding. FSC paper.
Typography: A combination of hand-drawn lettering and Doves Type. The Doves typeface (featured on the cover and appendix) was chosen to reflect the use of visual cues from the Arts & Crafts movement, the era in which the story is loosely set. The hand-drawn typeface for the dialogue was used as a link to the form of comics which the book uses to tell the story. The title on the cover is hand-drawn and inspired by a collection of various Arts & Crafts-style typefaces.
