PANZ Book Design Awards 2017 shortlists announced

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

The shortlisted titles in each category are:

Best illustrated book:

• Bad Hair Day (Christchurch Art Gallery), designed by Aaron Beehre
• Beach Life (Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, PRH), designed by Alan Deare, Area Design
• Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits (ed by Ngahiraka Mason & Zara Stanhope, Auckland University Press), cover designed by Neil Pardington, Base Two; internals designed by Katrina Duncan, Auckland University Press
• Simon Devitt’s Rannoch (Simon Devitt), designed by Arch MacDonnell & Sarah Gladwell, Inhouse 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
• Golden Month: Caring for the World’s Mothers after Childbirth (Jenny Allison, Beatnik Publishing), cover designed by Kyle Ranudo; internals designed by Sally Greer, Beatnik Design
• My Mother and the Hungarians, and Other Small Fictions (Frankie McMillan, Canterbury University Press), cover designed by Aaron Beehre, Ilam Press; internals designed by Aaron Beehre & Gemma Banks, Ilam Press

Best children’s book

• Annual (ed by Kate De Goldi & Susan Paris, Gecko Press), designed by Spencer Levine
• Capsicum, Capsi Go (Toby Morris, Beatnik Publishing), designed by Toby Morris
• Tiny Owl on the Ramshackle Farm (Lotte Wotherspoon, Clay Press), designed by Lotte Wotherspoon, Clay Press & Keely O’Shannessy, Keely O’Shannessy Design
• What Dog Knows (Sylvia Vanden Heede, 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
• See Play Do: A Kid’s Handbook for Everyday Creative Fun (Louise Cuckow, Beatnik Publishing), cover designed by Sally Greer, Beatnik Design; internals designed by Louise Cuckow
• Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand (Kathryn Hay, Michael Dale & Lareen Cooper, Massey University Press), designed by Kate Barraclough

Best cookbook

• Cazador: Game, Offal and the Rest (Dariush Lolaiy & Rebecca Smidt, Cazador), designed by Tim Donaldson & Amanda Gaskin, Sea Change Studio
• Little & Friday Every Meal (Kim Evans & Sophie Beck, PRH), designed by Holly McCauley
• Scrumptious (Chelsea Winter, PRH), designed by Dana Gaddum, typesetting designed by Kate Barraclough

Best typography

• Annual (ed by Kate De Goldi & Susan Paris, Gecko Press), designed by Spencer Levine
• Beach Life (Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, PRH), designed by Alan Deare, Area Design
• Cazador: Game, Offal and the Rest (Dariush Lolaiy & Rebecca Smidt, Cazador), designed by Tim Donaldson & Amanda Gaskin, Sea Change Studio
• Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits (ed by Ngahiraka Mason & Zara Stanhope, Auckland University Press), cover designed by Neil Pardington, Base Two; internals designed by Katrina Duncan, Auckland University Press

Best cover

• Ann Shelton: Dark Matter (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki), designed by Duncan Munro
• Annual (ed by Kate De Goldi & Susan Paris, Gecko Press), designed by Spencer Levine
• Cazador: Game, Offal and the Rest (Dariush Lolaiy & Rebecca Smidt, Cazador), designed by Tim Donaldson & Amanda Gaskin, Sea Change Studio
• Fits and Starts (Andrew Johnston, Victoria University Press), designed by Sarah Maxey
• Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show (Natasha Conland, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki), designed by Arch MacDonnell, Toby Curnow, Sarah Gladwell & Oliver Worsfold, Inhouse Design
• What Dog Knows (Sylvia Vanden Heede, 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)
• Leon Mackie: Torty and the Soldier (Jennifer Beck, Scholastic NZ), If I Had an Elephant (Richard Fairgray & Terry Jones, Scholastic NZ) and Worsley Enchanted (Douglas Stewart, New Zealand Antarctic Society).

The winners in each category; the best book, chosen from the category winners; and the people’s choice award, chosen by those attending the awards ceremony; will be announced at an event in Auckland on 20 July.

View the shortlisted covers here.

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