Penguin Random House New Zealand
Award for Best Illustrated Book 2021

Finalist

Designers: Lily Paris West & Lucinda Birch
Title: Somewhere Else
Publisher: Lost in a Fog
Format: 255 x 190mm, 88pp, casebound, section-sewn with black head-and-tail bands. Orange linen cover with indent printed on photo lustre. Black foil and deboss titles. Paper stock: Tinotoretto Gesso 140gsm, end pages Tinotoretto Gesso 250gsm.

Typography: Headings: Domaine Caslon Pro, 11pt, 16pt leading, 10pt tracking.

Judges’ comments The designer and artist are difficult to distinguish, in the best possible, most appropriately synergistic way. A delightfully ambiguous artist monograph/artist’s book/atlas with evocative colour palettes and Calvino-esque imaginary islands. The artist and their work are given prominence, but the designer’s hand is confident and visible in its restraint, working with colour, patterned endpapers, bright cloth and simple yet spirited typography.