Edify Award for Best Educational Book or Series – Secondary/Tertiary 2021

Finalist

Designers: Alan Deare, Area Design, Sarah Healey and Shaun Jury
Title: Māori Made Easy Workbooks
Publisher: Penguin Random House NZ
Format: 297 x 210mm, 96pp. Cover printed on 250 gsm C1S. Text printed on 100gsm fine offset.
Typography: Cover: Stag Sans and Stag Stencil in varying sizes and weights according to hierarchy of text and Prism Medium.
Internals: Calibre and Roboto, varying sizes and weights according to hierarchy of text.

Judges’ comments The bold use of inline display and stencil typefaces, as well as the palette of the colour-coded covers, makes for an instantly recognisable series of workbooks. Visually, they tie in seamlessly to Scotty and Stacey’s already existing series ‘brand’. Whilst a little more differentiation between and instruction and activity would help the functionality a little more, the no-nonsense typographic treatment for the interior is easy on the eye – and very readable – with the simple, stylised vector illustrations tying in nicely with the overall look and feel.