Category Archives: Winners
— WINNER 2021 Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand People’s Choice Award
2020 Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand People’s Choice Award Joint Winners Designers: Arch MacDonnell and Alexandra Turner, Inhouse Design Title: Billy Apple®: Life/Work Publisher: Auckland University Press Format: 240 x 170mm, 400pp, hardback. Case: PLC-wrapped 2mm box board, bookblock flush with … Continue reading
2021 Winners
PANZ BOOK DESIGN AWARDS 2021 WINNERS Click on cover images for further information and judges’ comments. Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book Upstart Press Award for Best … Continue reading
Nature Stilled — Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2021 WINNER
Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2021 Winner Designers: Arch MacDonnell, Alistair McCready, Dean Foster, Jane MacDonnell, Inhouse Design. Title: Nature—Stilled Publisher: Te Papa Press Format: 350 x 202mm, 4368pp, quarter-bound hardback. Photographer Jane Ussher spent … Continue reading
Towards Compostela — Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2021 WINNER
Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2021 Winner Typography: Set in Feijoa by Klim Type Foundry, 9 pt type, 14.3 pt leading. Catharina’s text is one continuous piece without chapter breaks, so rather than try to make it conform … Continue reading
I am the Universe — Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2021 WINNER
Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2021 Winner Judges’ comments A book that explodes with inventive, intricate, playful and vivid illustrations. This is a book which readers can enjoy over and over, and find something new to discover … Continue reading
Kuwi and Friends Māori Picture Dictionary — Edify Award for Best Educational Book or Series – Primary 2021 Winner
Edify Award for Best Educational Book or Series – Primary 2021 Winner Typography: Body: Archer (Book) 9pt, 15pt Leading Sub body 6.5pt, 7.8pt Leading Dictionary Item TE REO MĀORI: Archer Bold 13pt 16pt Leading (lowercase) Dictionary Item ENGLISH: Archer (Book) … Continue reading
Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine — 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2021 WINNER
1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook 2021 Winner Judges’ comments The cover’s reverse binding and textural use of debossing, along with the subtle UV gloss of the karaka berries, invites you into Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine. The use of white … Continue reading
Billy Apple — PANZ Award for Best Typography 2021 WINNER
PANZ Award for Best Typography 2021 Winner Designers: Arch MacDonnell and Alexandra Turner, Inhouse Design Title: Billy Apple®: Life/Work Publisher: Auckland University Press Format: 240 x 170mm, 400pp, hardback. Case: PLC-wrapped 2mm box board, bookblock flush with case; French-folded jacket … Continue reading
Maori Made Fun — Edify Award for Best Educational Book or Series – Secondary/Tertiary 2021 WINNER
Edify Award for Best Educational Book or Series – Secondary/Tertiary 2021 Winner Judges’ comments The bold use of inline display and stencil typefaces, as well as the palette of the colour-coded covers, makes for an instantly recognisable series of workbooks. … Continue reading
Agency of Hope — HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2021 WINNER
HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2021 Winner Judges’ comments A difficult subject matter to come up with a compelling singular cover image for. There’s lots of pathos in the stylised stencil of a house lit at night that offers … Continue reading





