Category Archives: Cover

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2019 Finalist Judges’ comments: “An instantly intriguing and transporting cover. The font selection introduces personality and era; immediately connecting audience to content. Stunning, simple colour palette.” “The central image here does so much to … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2019 Finalist Judges’ comments: “Beautiful palette and image crop/abstraction/texture communicating an immediate connection to the content. The back cover is a little harder to read.” “A striking cover that sails somewhere between Dazzle ships … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2019 Finalist Judges’ comments: “Refreshing, unique design approach. Restrained dust jacket, promoting the author’s illustration, complimented by pink cover underneath.” “A sketched honesty and vulnerability emerge on the front cover. But the words from the … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2019 Finalist Judges’ comments: “Beautiful palette, lovely textural/illustration technique and legible back cover.” “Very strong use of subtle colour. Technically very skilled execution of these gradients and soft blurs of colour transition with high … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: Elegant watercolour technique providing ‘soft’ and interesting texture, set against unapologetically large title seems an appropriate choice. The continuation of the illustration around front spine and back cover is well … Continue reading →

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HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: Arresting and modernist. Does what it says on the tin — a film maker and visual artist cleverly shown in focus. The spot gloss varnish is a neat trick. The … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: An ‘idea’ driven cover. It is a restrained approach but executed with elegance and simplicity. Tail feather meets drip of ink to the author’s name. Darkness and light – the … Continue reading →

HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: The stunning, symbolic artwork that extends from the front cover to inside the dust jacket features the specially commissioned illustration Tangia te papa ma ki te pango by James Ormsby … Continue reading →