Gal­lery – Book Award Finalists

Cover Design: Keely O’Shannessy for As the Earth Turns Sil­ver by Alison Wong (Pen­guin Group (NZ)).

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.

Final­ists for the 201­0 PANZ Book Design Awards are as follows:

Schol­astic New Zea­l­and Award for Best Children’s Book

Anita Mcleod, Book Design Ltd and Katz Cow­ley­for The Wonky Don­key by Craig Smith (Schol­astic New Zealand)

Michael Green­field for Old Hu-Hu by Kyle Mew­burn (Schol­astic New Zealand)

Anna Seab­rook for Ben and Mark: Boys of the High Coun­try by Christine Fernyhough and John Bou­gen (Ran­dom House New Zealand)

Hachette New Zea­l­and Award for Best Non-illustrated Book

Sarah Laing (cover), Kate Bar­raclough (interior) for Dead People’s Music by Sarah Laing (Ran­dom House New Zealand)

Spen­cer Lev­ine (cover and interior) Dee Murch (lay­out) for In a Word: The Essen­tial Tool for Find­ing the Per­fect Word by Mark Broatch (New Hol­land Pub­lish­ers (NZ))

Keely O’Shannessy (cover), Kat­rina Duncan(interior) for Mirabile Dictu by Michele Leg­gott (Auck­land Uni­ver­sity Press)

Ran­dom House New Zea­l­and Award for Best Illus­trated Book

Fiona Las­celles for Villa: From Her­it­age to Con­tem­por­ary by Patrick Reyn­olds, Jeremy Hansen and Jeremy Sal­mond (Ran­dom House New Zealand)

Spen­cer Lev­ine (cover) and Kat­rina Duncan (interior) for Marti Fried­lander by Leonard Bell (Auck­land Uni­ver­sity Press)

Cameron Gibb The Life & Love of Trees by Lewis Black­well (PQ Blackwell)

Pear­son Award for Best Edu­ca­tional Book

Anna Seab­rook for Get Grow­ing: A New Zea­l­and Step-by-step Guide to Grow­ing Your Own Veget­ables and Fruit by Helen Cook (Ran­dom House New Zealand)

Cheryl Rowe, Macarn Design Geo­graphy on the Edge by Justin Peat and John Lock­year (Cen­gage Learning)

Book Design Ltd for Year 9 Graph­ics by Pail Bour­diot (Cen­gage Learning)

G.A. Pin­dar & Son Award for Best Typography

Mis­sion Hall (interior), Afineline (addi­tional design and type­set­ting) for Art at Te Papa by Wil­liam McA­loon (Te Papa Press)

Kate Bar­raclough for A Treas­ury of New Zea­l­and Bak­ing edited by Lauraine Jac­obs (Ran­dom House New Zealand)

Kate Bar­raclough for Wine Class: All You Need to Know about Wine in New Zea­l­and by Jo Burzyn­ska (Ran­dom House New Zealand)

Har­per­Collins Pub­lish­ers Award for Best Cover

Keely O’Shannessy for As the Earth Turns Sil­ver by Alison Wong (Pen­guin Group (NZ))

Sarah Laing for Mag­pie Hall by Rachael King Ran­dom House New Zealand

Car­o­lyn Lewis for A Beau­ti­ful Game by Tom Watt (PQ Blackwell)

Press info from BPANZ:

Design­ers “shape the way read­ers exper­i­ence a book,” says Peter Gilder­dale, one of the judges. “Authors provide the con­tent, but the designer can either enhance or inhibit the way the book functions.”

The depth of tal­ent made it dif­fi­cult for Gilder­dale, along with the other judges, Gra­ham Beat­tie and Sharon Grace, to select 2010’s con­tenders Gilder­dale adds, “The stand­ard was very high and even — a won­der­ful mix of the vibrant and restrained, clever and craf­ted, quirky and tra­di­tional — this is great for book buy­ers but tough on judges!”

A new award for young design­ers intro­duced last year has proved spot on, with this year’s main cat­egory short­l­ist fea­tur­ing all three 2009 Awa Press Young Designer of the Year final­ists: Spen­cer Lev­ine (win­ner), Keely O’Shannessy and (ProDesign designer – ed) Car­o­lyn Lewis. Final­ists for the 2010 Awa Press Young Designer of the Year Award will be announced on Thursday 3 June.

Lev­ine is one of the design­ers who fea­ture mul­tiple times, along with Kate Bar­raclough, and Sarah Laing, who has not only designed two of the books in the short­l­ist, but is also the author of one of them.

Ran­ging from the com­mer­cially suc­cess­ful New Zea­l­and titles like The Wonky Don­key and A Treas­ury of New Zea­l­and Bak­ing to beau­ti­ful inter­na­tional titles The Life & Love of Trees and A Beau­ti­ful Game, this year’s short­l­ist illus­trates the diversity of the New Zea­l­and lit­er­ary landscape.

The 2010 judging panel is Peter Gilder­dale, Head of Graphic Design at AUT Uni­ver­sity, Gra­ham Beat­tie, a full­time book reviewer and book blog­ger, and designer Sharon Grace.

The awards are run by the Pub­lish­ers Asso­ci­ation of New Zea­l­and (PANZ) to pro­mote excel­lence in, and provide recog­ni­tion for, the best book design in New Zea­l­and. The com­pet­i­tion is judged in six cat­egor­ies, with a win­ner for the highly coveted Best Book chosen from the short­l­ist and sponsored by Nielsen Book Services.

Win­ners will be announced at a cere­mony in Auck­land on 22 July, along with the Awa Press Young Designer of the Year. The awards are sponsored by a range of pub­lish­ers, along with North & South magazine and Kala­ma­zoo Wyatt & Wilson printers.

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