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The Great New Zealand Cookbook – 2015 Best Cookbook finalist
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
Depot – 2015 Best Cookbook finalist
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Walker Maths 2.9 Statistical Inference – 2015 Best Educational finalist
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
School Journal Story Library, Level 3, In the End – 2015 Best Educational Book finalist
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
Monster’s Lunch– 2015 Best Educational finalist
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
Meariki – 2015 Best Education finalist
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Singing Home the Whale – 2015 Best Non Illustrated finalist
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
Ko Tautoro Te Pito o Tōku Ao – 2015 Best Non Illustrated finalist
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
The Families – 2015 Best Non Illustrated finalist
Everbest Printing Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2015 Highly Commended 2015 Judges’ Comments The highlight of this book is the intriguing graphic cover with its unusual crop of an illustration of a bird feeding its young. This book exemplifies how striking design can … Continue reading
Essential New Zealand Poems – 2015 Best Non Illustrated finalist
Everbest Printing Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2015 Highly Commended 2015 Judges’ Comments This is a rather lovely compendium of historical and contemporary New Zealand poetry. The cover hit the mark with a mid-century feel that brings to mind 20th Century New Zealand … Continue reading
