Category Archives: Shortlist
Strangers Arrive — Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2018 FINALIST
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
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Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand — Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2017 FINALIST
Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments Intriguing and playful cover, assuming the language of maps, but divulging coordinates of poetry or location details. The restricted colour palette works, and the change of place and change of … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Non-illustrated, Shortlist
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Fits & Starts — HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2017 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments Subtle and classical, this cover has a striking but simple idea at the heart of the design. The hand-lettered type is a perfect manifestation of the book’s title. Judicious use of … Continue reading
Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show — HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2017 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments An approachable and conceptually clever production. It teases, but acknowledges the intelligence of the contemporary art viewer. The judges loved the texture given by the white halftone screen. With four different … Continue reading
Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 FINALIST
Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments Any art book with academic tendencies or at least that tends towards that audience, inherits many typographic prerequisites and this book delivers across footnotes, plate numbers, parenthesis, captions, glossary and through … Continue reading
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Cazador — game, offal and the rest — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 FINALIST
Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments Contemporary typography meets a very traditional approach to cooking, and acknowledges the decade when it all started the 1980s. Time-honoured butchery techniques and family recipes are energised by strong hierarchy of … Continue reading
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Beach Life — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 FINALIST
Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments The typography here carries with it the energies and spirit of the beach. It has tonal ‘weights’ of the stained wet sands at high water marks, it ventures into restrained, sun … Continue reading
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Annual — Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 FINALIST
Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments The typography in this book design has a hard job of work to do, a demanding audience, not only the readers but the contributors. So many different voices to accommodate. But, … Continue reading
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What Dog Knows — HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2017 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments The tension between the characters is captured beautifully through the scale of the illustrations and the vertical stacking of the type on the front and back covers. Restrained and deceptively simple, … Continue reading
Cazador — game, offal and the rest — HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2017 FINALIST
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2017 Finalist Judges’ Comments This well-crafted cookbook really grabs your attention. The whole package is rich with references and meaning. The linen cover, reminiscent of a 1980s tablecloth, creates a nostalgic feel but it also … Continue reading
