Tag Archives: Book Design

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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Young Design­ers Short­l­is­ted for Award

June 3rd, 2010
Graphic design­ers Sarah Healey, Kalee Jack­son and Keely O’Shannessy make up this year’s Publisher's Asso­ci­ation of New Zea­l­and (PANZ) Awa Press Young Designer of the Year Award short­l­ist. To enter the awards, design­ers under 35 years of age present a port­fo­lio of book designs. These are judged on artistic merit, innov­a­tion of form and appro­pri­ate­ness to the [...]
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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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Win Me: James Jean's Kindling

January 25th, 2010
Kinder Sur­prise Win James Jean's Kind­ling. Judging by the fan­boy (and fangirl) scenes of last year's Semi-Permanent, James Jean is a pretty big cheese in the world of illustration. Leaf­ing through Kind­ling, which arrived on my desk just in time to be ignored in the pre-Christmas chaos, the respect Jean has garnered is pretty well jus­ti­fied. Kind­ling [...]
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I Must Be Dreaming

September 18th, 2009
The books of pho­to­grapher and artist Bruce Connew. By Ham­ish Thompson “When people look at my pic­tures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” 
— Robert Frank, LIFE (26 Novem­ber 1951) This com­ment from Robert Frank, the pho­to­grapher whose book The Amer­ic­ans turned pho­to­graphy and a cul­ture [...]
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