Penguin Random House New Zealand
Award for Best Illustrated Book 2025

Finalist

Designers: Aaron Beehre

Title: Eileen Mayo’s Rare and Endangered Birds of Aotearoa New Zealand
Publisher: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū

Format: 350 x 280mm, 64pp, bound with a floating board cover to allow each card poster to be lifted from the book for framing or display.

Typography: Titles: Sanuk Black and Sanuk Fat
Body copy: Newzald Book and Newzald Bold

Publisher’s Brief
“We wanted to produce a vehicle to showcase the delightful series of birds painted by artist Eileen Mayo in 1976. Originally reproduced as small, collectable cards in packets of Gregg’s Jelly, the whole set of extant paintings is published here as high quality posters that can be lifted from the binding.”