PANZ Book Design Awards 2012 winners announced
The winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards were announced on 5 July.
The winning titles are:
Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book Services
- Two Little Bugs (Mark & Rowan Sommerset, Dreamboat Books), designed by Rowan Sommerset
HarperCollins Award for Best Cover
- Tupaia (Joan Druett, Random House New Zealand), designed by Saskia Nicol
Mary Egan Award for Best Typography
- Fleur (Fleur Sullivan, Canterbury University Press), designed by Alan Deare, AREA Design
Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book
- Fleur (Fleur Sullivan, Canterbury University Press), designed by Alan Deare, AREA Design
Hachette New Zealand Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book
- Janet Frame in Her Own Words (Janet Frame, Penguin New Zealand), designed by Anna Egan-Reid
Pearson Award for Best Educational Book
- He Kōrero – Words Between Us: First Māori-Pākehā Conversations on Paper (Alison Jones & Kuni Jenkins, Huia New Zealand), designed by Sam Bunny
Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book
- Two Little Bugs (Mark & Rowan Sommerset, Dreamboat Books), designed by Rowan Sommerset.
Also awarded was the Awa Press Young Designer of the Year Award, which was presented to Megan van Staden from Random House New Zealand. The judges said that they ‘liked every book in Megan van Staden’s portfolio’, which they said ‘shows consistency and an enormous amount of promise’. ‘Her designs show a real sensitivity to subject matter and an incredible versatility,’ said the judges. Some of Megan’s designs can be seen online here.
To view the covers of the winning books, visit Bookseller+Publisher’s Fancy Goods blog. For more information about the PANZ Book Design Awards, click here.
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