Penguin Random House New Zealand
Award for Best Illustrated Book 2025

Finalist

Designers: Katie Kerr, Studio Katie Kerr

Title: Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa
Publisher: Auckland University Press

Format: 235 x 180mm, 444pp, section sewn, cased in square-backed over 2mm box board, cut nearly flush with book block.

Cover printed 5c (CMYK + PMS orange) and varnished, on cotton cloth with debossed panels and deep matt black foiling over type. Text is 5c (CMYK + PMS orange) throughout on 130gsm Chinese Vellum.

Typography: Caslon Ionic (Commercial Type) and GT America (Grilli Type)

Publisher’s Brief
“The brief was for a contemporary medium-sized fully illustrated art book, with appeal to the general reader. It needed to feel like a beautiful scholarly text and be visually clear that it was a book for reading as well as viewing. It requested a coherent, elegant design to pull together the diverse selection of images and their huge visual range, within the complex structure of the book across its multiple contributors.”