Category Archives: Shortlist

1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2015 Highly Commended 2015 Judges’ Comments Saison is a show-stopper of a book and a glorious object. From the watery silk floral cover, gorgeous photography and delicate colour palette to the laser-cut section dividers, everything about this … Continue reading →

1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2015 Highly Commended 2015 Judges’ Comments Josh’s Backyard BBQ is a fabulous example of highly functional cookbook design. The judges were impressed with the considered information design evident in this book. It’s unrelentingly practical, with a no-nonsense … Continue reading →

1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2015 Highly Commended 2015 Judges’ Comments The cover art by Dick Frizzell is iconically New Zealand and was a smart choice for this cookbook. The use of hand-drawn type on the contents and conversion pages is similarly … Continue reading →

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Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2015 Highly Commended 2015 Judges’ Comments How do you make statistics interesting? Statistical inference has done two things well: the cover is warm and uplifting but also illustrative of the topic (dogs, likes all sets, can … Continue reading →

Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2015 Highly Commended 2015 Judges’ Comments The idea of teaching children about unions might have led some authors down a traditional path of industrial disputes, but In the end uses the boyhood fascination with war and … Continue reading →

Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2015 Highly Commended 2015 Judges’ Comments It’s easy to go over the top with a large format book like this, but Monster’s Lunch has let the cuteness of the monster be the hero and kept the … Continue reading →

Edify Award for Best Educational Book 2015   View shortlist | View winners

Everbest Printing Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2015 Highly Commended 2015 Judges’ Comments Singing Home The Whale is an impressive contribution by young designer Carla Sy. The densely illustrated chapter pages were synchronous with the cover design and were balanced by clean typographic … Continue reading →

Everbest Printing Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2015 Highly Commended 2015 Judges’ Comments Ko Tautoro Te Pito o Tōko Ao is a beautiful volume that somehow manages to look sumptuous and exciting, yet restrained and serious at the same time. The cover references Māori … Continue reading →