Category Archives: Shortlist
Baby — HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: This bold cover with its simple but striking image piques interest and curiosity. Easy to pick up and want to explore more. View shortlist
Aberhart Starts Here— HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: Aberhart is probably best known for his atmospheric black and white photography, so the cover here is a pleasant surprise with its bluish teal and brown cover image. Striking in … Continue reading
Eat Up New Zealand— 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2018 FINALIST
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Homegrown Kitchen: Everyday recipes for eating well— 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2018 FINALIST
1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: An understated feeling, unfussy book in which the designer allows subtle variations within with type weight and sizes to echo the narrow depth of field of many of the focal foodstuffs … Continue reading
Turangawaewae — Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 FINALIST
Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: The design serves the content well, enlivening the book with text block pages. There are also lots of good break pages with clean and functional type setting. View shortlist
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New Zealand’s Great White Sharks: How science is revealing their secrets — Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 FINALIST
Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: Some stunning and arresting photography is a gift to the designer; in this field guide design meets encyclopaedia. It has an edgy design visual language which seems to position the … Continue reading
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The New Zealand Art Activity Book — Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 FINALIST
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How to Mend a Kea — Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 FINALIST
Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: The author/designer clearly possesses many, many skills. The clear main text setting, pull quotes and side bars sit comfortably and in an orderly fashion, as if a commentary to the … Continue reading
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Bright Ideas for Young Minds — Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 FINALIST
Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: The muted colour palette, shying from obvious vibrant primary colour, somehow works. Layouts are brought to life by some strong art direction on photography, which the designer uses to good … Continue reading
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Helper and Helper — Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2018 FINALIST
Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2018 Finalist Judges’ Comments: Here the designer gives the illustrations and target audience reader very clear respect. Type setting is generous to both as well. Subdued colours conjure distant volumes of Aesop’s … Continue reading
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