PANZ Book Design Awards 2017 winners announced

The winners of the 2017 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced.

The winning title in each category is:

Best book

• Cazador: Game, Offal and the Rest (Dariush Lolaiy & Rebecca Smidt, Cazador), designed by Tim Donaldson & Amanda Gaskin, Sea Change Studio

Best illustrated book

• Beach Life (Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, PRH), designed by Alan Deare, Area Design

Best non-illustrated book

• Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand (ed by Ingrid Horrocks & Cherie Lacey, Victoria University Press), designed by Jo Bailey & Anna Brown

Best children’s book

• Annual (ed by Kate De Goldi & Susan Paris, Gecko Press), designed by Spencer Levine

Best educational book

• Mātaki Mai Ana Te Ao: Te Tawhio Pihirei o 1981 (Rachael Tuwhangai, Hone Morris & Pania Tahau-Hodges, HUIA), designed by Tim Hansen, Fay & Walter

Best cookbook

• Cazador: Game, Offal and the Rest (Dariush Lolaiy & Rebecca Smidt, Cazador), designed by Tim Donaldson & Amanda Gaskin, Sea Change Studio

Best typography

• Annual (ed by Kate De Goldi & Susan Paris, Gecko Press), designed by Spencer Levine

Best cover

• Cazador: Game, Offal and the Rest (Dariush Lolaiy & Rebecca Smidt, Cazador), designed by Tim Donaldson & Amanda Gaskin, Sea Change Studio

New Zealand people’s choice award

• Annual (ed by Kate De Goldi & Susan Paris, Gecko Press), designed by Spencer Levine

Young designer of the year

• Sam Bunny: The Great Kiwi Pub Crawl (Ned Bartlett & Jono Corfe, PRH), Enemy Camp (David Hill, PRH), Grandad’s Wheelies (Jack Lasenby, PRH), The Salted Air (Thom Conroy, PRH) and The Impossible Boy (Leonie Agnew, PRH).

For more information about the awards and the winning titles, click here.

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