Hachette Aotearoa NZ Emerging Designer Award

The Emerging Designer Award recognises and encourages emerging talent. The judges seek outstanding design across a whole portfolio from designers under 35 years of age. To enter the award, designers enter a portfolio of their book design work, which is assessed on artistic merit, innovation of form, quality of production, and appropriateness to the intended market.

Previous winners of the award, formerly known as the Young Designer of the Year Award, include Pieta Brenton (2011), Megan van Staden (2012), Kate Barraclough (2013), Kalee Jackson (2014), Carla Sy (2015), Anna Egan-Reid (2016), Sam Bunny (2017), Rachel Clark (2018),Katie Kerr (2019), Jessica Read (2020), Alexandra Turner (2021) and Te Kani Price (2022) whose work demonstrates that the future of book design in New Zealand is in very good hands.