Category Archives: Book Design

Lone Star

September 21st, 2010
Dur­ing the Amer­ican sum­mer of 2009, Clem Dev­ine and Sam Trus­trum rode a Mus­tang from Geor­gia to Texas and back. While in Aus­tin TX they met Pen­ta­gram design part­ner DJ Stout. From ProDesign 108 (addi­tional images cour­tesy Pen­ta­gram and Sam Trustrum). A year ago all I wanted was a pair of Tony Lama full quill ostrich skin cow­boy [...]
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Book Awards Winners

July 23rd, 2010
The Life & Love of Trees has scooped the supreme Ger­ard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book Ser­vices at the Pub­lish­ers Asso­ci­ation of New Zea­l­and Book Design Awards. Designer Cameron Gibb was applauded at last night’s cere­mony for a design that judge Peter Gilder­dale said is of ‘the highest qual­ity, and the judges [...]
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Gal­lery – Book Award Finalists

May 7th, 2010
Final­ists in the Pub­lish­ers Asso­ci­ation New Zea­l­and Book Design Awards were recently announced. It's always inter­est­ing to see what our book design­ers have come up over the course of a year, so for your view­ing pleas­ure here's a gal­lery of short­l­is­ted books (cov­ers only), and some addi­tional inform­a­tion sup­plied by the awards convenors.
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Full Char­ac­ter Set

February 18th, 2010
David Ben­newith, in his bio­graph­ical endeav­our Joseph Church­ward, presents us with the rational and intu­it­ive sides of the type designer and recip­i­ent of New Zealand’s highest hon­our for design­ers at the recent BeST Awards. The book reflects on an extens­ive body of work – span­ning four dec­ades and encom­passing over 600 fonts – which Church­ward ten­derly describes as a gift [...]
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