Category Archives: Winners
Wild Kinship — Allen & Unwin Award for Best Commercial Book for Adults 2021 WINNER
Allen & Unwin Award for Best Commercial Book for Adults 2021 Winner Typography: Ariata by Malou Verlomme for Monotype, DIN Next by Akira Kobayashi and Sandra Winter. The main text is printed in Pantone 1675. This warm brown hints at … Continue reading
2021 Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand Emerging Designer Award WINNER
2021 HACHETTE AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND EMERGING DESIGNER AWARD Winner Alexandra Turner Judges’ comments Alexandra Turner’s selection of work demonstrated inventive and sensitive use of typography and materials in a variety of formats and scales, with evidence of creative and constructive … Continue reading
Nature Stilled — Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book 2021 WINNER
2021 Gerard Reid Award for Best Book Sponsored by Nielsen Book 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
Mophead — WINNER 2020 PANZ People’s Choice Award
2020 Publishers Association of New Zealand People’s Choice Award Winner Judges’ comments What a sensation! A book for readers from 1 to 100! Here we have it all — a real story, a celebration of difference, humour, visual wonder and … Continue reading
Mophead — Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book 2020 WINNER
2020 Gerard Reid Award for Best Book Sponsored by Nielsen Book Winner Judges’ comments What a sensation! A book for readers from 1 to 100! Here we have it all — a real story, a celebration of difference, humour, visual … Continue reading
Jessica Read – 2020 Hachette New Zealand Emerging Designer Award WINNER
2020 HACHETTE NEW ZEALAND EMERGING DESIGNER Winner Jessica Read View shortlist
Emerging Designer Award WINNER
2020 HACHETTE NEW ZEALAND EMERGING DESIGNER Winner Jessica Read View shortlist
We Are Here — Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2020 Winner
Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2020 Winner Designer: Tim Denee Title: We Are Here: An atlas of Aotearoa Publisher: Massey University Press Format: 290 x 235mm, 240pp, hardback Typography: Fonts: Tiempos Headline and Untitled Sans … Continue reading
Hell Fire Poetry Anthology 2017–18 — Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2020 WINNER
Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2020 Winner Typography: Bembo (body copy 12pt on 16pt leading), Drone Ranger (titles 26pt). Titles printed in gold ink over black sugar paper. Judges’ comments What a ravishing little firecracker of a book! It’s … Continue reading
Mophead — Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2020 WINNER
Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book 2020 Winner Judges’ comments You know you are onto something when you see a book and you get that bat squeak of excitement. As exciting and unruly as the hand drawn mop of … Continue reading





