PANZ Book Design Awards 2015 winners announced

The winners of this year’s Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced.

Cardboard Cathedral (Andrew Barrie, Auckland University Press), designed by Janson Chau, won the overall award for best book, as well as awards for best illustrated book and best typography.

International guest judge and Scribe creative director Miriam Rosenbloom said of the winning title: ‘Contemporary seems an obvious word when talking about Cardboard Cathedral but this possibly overused description is completely appropriate here. Certainly the clever paper stock selection is the possible hero of the book, but every hero needs a side-kick and the typographic design makes for a pretty dynamic duo.’

The winners in each category are:

Gerard Reid Award for best book

Best cover

• The Curioseum: Collected Stories of the Odd & Marvellous (ed by Adrienne Jansen, illus by Sarah Laing, Te Papa Press), designed by Adrienne Jansen

Best illustrated book

• Cardboard Cathedral (Andrew Barrie, Auckland University Press), designed by Janson Chau

Best non-illustrated book

• The Critic’s Part: Wystan Curnow Art Writings 1971–2013 (ed by Christina Barton, Robert Leonard & Thomasin Sleigh, Victoria University Press), designed by Alice Bonifant

Best children’s book

• I Am Doodle Cat (Kat Patrick & Lauren Marriott, Beatnik Publishing), designed by Lauren Marriott

Best educational book

• Meariki: The Quest for Truth (Helen Pearse-Otene, illus by Andrew Burdan, Huia Publishers), designed by Shannon Jahnel Lanktree

Best cookbook

• Depot: The Biography of a Restaurant (Al Brown, Random House NZ), designed by Gary Stewart (The Gas Project)

Best typography

• Cardboard Cathedral (Andrew Barrie, Auckland University Press), designed by Janson Chau.

Carla Sy was named Young Designer of the Year for her work on Singing Home the Whale (Mandy Hager), 100 Best Native Plants For New Zealand Gardens (Fiona Eadie), The Naturalist (Thom Conroy), The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk (David Grant) and Drowning City (Ben Atkins), all published by Random House NZ. Rosenbloom said Sy ‘displays a great flexibility and depth of design talent [and] has shown herself to be a fine illustrator evidenced by her wonderful work on Drowning City and Singing Home the Whale’.

For more information on the winners, click here.

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