Category Archives: 2017
Cazador — game, offal and the rest — 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2017 WINNER
1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2017 Winner Judges’ Comments Brave, classic, yet excitingly contemporary. Cazador’s exquisite production values are immediately seductive. It is beautiful to hold and look at. The blood linen cover, exposed ‘frenched like’ binding (that opens … Continue reading
Annual — Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2017 WINNER
Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2017 Winner Judges’ Comments The task here was huge with so many different creative voices and visual styles to accommodate and create space for. Whilst the designer’s hand is very much felt it … Continue reading
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Mātaki Mai Ana Te Ao: Te Tawhio Pihirei o 1981 — Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2017 WINNER
Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2017 Winner Judges’ Comments Making history interesting is not just the teacher’s job. This teacher/student pack has cleverly combined the anger and upset of the subject (1981 Springbok Tour) with the need to access information … Continue reading
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Beach Life — Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2017 WINNER
Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2017 Winner Judges’ Comments This could have been a good coffee-table book, that adequately balances long text with a wide variety of photography styles. It certainly does this but two noteworthy … Continue reading
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2017 Winners
PANZ BOOK DESIGN AWARDS 2017 WINNERS Click on cover images for further information and judges’ comments. Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book Upstart Press Award for Best … Continue reading
Have your say too — NEW Hachette New Zealand People’s Choice Award
It is a difficult job being a judge with so many beautifully designed books on offer. This year, for the first time ever, we are throwing the judging open to the public. Attendees of the 2017 PANZ Book Design Awards … Continue reading
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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