Category Archives: Cover

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2025 Finalist Designer: Seachange Title: Oikos — An Ode to Food, Family & Friends Publisher: Theo Papouis (Oikos) Format: 245 x 175mm, 296pp. Section sewn, lay flat binding, foiled book cloth, edge-sprayed, tipped-in physical postcard … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2025 Finalist Designer: Peter Bray Title: Dummies & Doppelgängers Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Format: 290 x 210mm, 120pp, hard case with printed and debossed cloth cover. Printed on two paperstocks … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2025 Finalist Designer: Todd Atticus Title: Bad Archive Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press Format: 210 x 138mm, 256pp, perfect bound. Cover is matt laminated with flaps Typography: Cover font Avant Garde. Todd blew the … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2024   Finalist Designers: Tyrone Ohia, Eva Charlton, Max Quinn-Tapara, (Studio: Extended Whānau) & Katrina Duncan Title: Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere Publisher: Massey University Press Format: 250 x 190mm, 456pp. Typography: Stanley & Theinhardt … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2024   Finalist Designers: Alan Deare and Dave McDonald, Area Design Title: Flora: Celebrating Our Botanical World Publisher: Te Papa Press Format: 290 x 250mm, 452pp, hardback. Typography: Erotique, Ivy Journal, Nuckle     … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2024   Finalist Designers: Cover: Toby Curnow, Inhouse Interior: Arch & Jane MacDonnell, Inhouse Title: The Chair Publisher: Objectspace Format: 240 x 170mm, 272pp, exposed binding Typography: The Future The Future Mono (captions and footnotes)     “The premise … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2024   Finalist Designer: Carla Sy Title: Fungi of Aotearoa Publisher: Penguin Random House NZ Format: 210 x 155mm, 336pp. Flexi bound artboard cover, matt lam with spot UV, and matt art internal paperstock. … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2024 Finalist Designer: Katie Kerr Title: Past the Tower, Under the Tree: Twelve Stories of Learning in Community Publisher: GLORIA Books Format: 180 x 114mm, 216pp, perfect bound.  The cover has a soft touch … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2024 Finalist Designer: Andy Shaw Title: Saga Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press Format: 210 x 148mm, 88pp, paperback. “The brief was to incorporate the wishes of the author and publisher in a witty … Continue reading →