2023 Gerard Reid Award for Best Book
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Winner

Designer: Tyrone Ohia, Extended Whanau (cover & art direction) & Katrina Duncan (layout and typography)

Title: Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art
Publisher: Penguin Random House NZ in association with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Format: 300 x 240 mm, 392pp, 3-piece case, black cloth to spine plus white foil, debossing to front and back case. Most of the book printed on matte art; 88pp black-and-white pages printed on 120gsm woodfree; machine gloss varnish to all images throughout.
Typography: Cover and divider: Parabole.
Essays & captions: Söhne Buch

Judges’ comments This is an excellent piece of work, hitting ‘Strong, clear, and contemporary’, but in a way that eschews trends to produce a piece of work that will endure as a good piece of design across time. The system handles bilingual content in an unfussy way. The grid is versatile across content types with well-handled differentiation. The text is comfortable to read with spot-on line lengths. The images are enhanced and honoured with a page and text structure that supports it.