Category Archives: Illustrated

Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: As judges we were all unanimous in our decision. As a complete package, this book is exquisite. It’s a fine example of respectful and thoughtful design … Continue reading →

Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: The design matches well with the essence of the artwork “Screamed of a free spirit and wonderful presence” fully conveyed. A lot of the typography is … Continue reading →

Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: The layout inside is clean, crisp and beautifully minimal which gives the images a chance to shine.  The format and size are nice. View shortlist

Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: This is an elegantly presented book with beautiful peachy detail under the dust jacket. Clean, simple, effective design. It looks great on the shop floor, nice … Continue reading →

Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments This is a beautiful book. The content is the hero here, and the designer has done everything to honour the art work: incredibly high production values, tasteful … Continue reading →

Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2017 Finalist 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 →

Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments This book behaves like a who-done-it. At times dark, then playful and always intriguing, it reveals its subject like a torch illuminating the corners of a room. … Continue reading →

Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments Bad Hair Day uses simplicity to strong effect. The images are the most important and so it took real discipline for the designer to take a step … Continue reading →