HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover 2025
Finalist
Designer: Peter Bray
Title: Dummies & Doppelgängers
Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Format: 290 x 210mm, 120pp, hard case with printed and debossed cloth cover. Printed on two paperstocks
Typography: Font throughout is New Haas Grotesk
Titles are Alternate Gothic (various sizes).
The mirrored titles speak to the idea of the ‘self’ we see in the mirror. Ronnie van Hout’s Quasi figures intrude throughout the book’s layout and cover, reflecting their disruptive presence in the exhibition.
Publisher’s Brief
“Dummies & Doppelgängers was produced to accompany an exhibition of the same name, rich with fascinating, lively and at times surreal artworks. The publication needed to contain the awkwardness within, and represent just a little of it on the cover.”
