Category Archives: Cover

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2022 Finalist Designers:  Camilla Lau & Te Kani Price with Rowan Heap (illustrator) Title:  Kurangaituku Publisher: HUIA Publishers Format: 229 x 152mm, 392pp, PUR bound. A linen finish paper stock was used for the … Continue reading →

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HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2022 Finalist   View shortlist

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2021 Finalist Judges’ comments This stands out from the crowd because of its singular, strong typographic approach to the cover design. View shortlist

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2021 Finalist Combining this with our main character William’s synaesthesia, the holographic foil was the perfect showcase of the main beats of the story. The illustrated foil riffs on English vintage cottage wallpapers. The … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2021 Finalist Judges’ comments A grand tour of the South Island. The cover evokes nostalgia for a bygone era and memories of golden days with a contemporary twist – the horse is replaced by … Continue reading →

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HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2021 Finalist Judges’ comments An intriguing cover solution that follows a trend of using an abstract, contemporary portrait painting, setting up the expectation that this painting is representative/illustrative of one of the characters in … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2021 Finalist Judges’ comments A nice extension of ‘head girl’, endorsed by a foiled gold star, alongside a felt-pen-drawn portrait and hand-lettered title and author name. The overall format has a notebook/diary feel. View shortlist