PANZ Book Design Awards 2021 finalists announced

The finalists for the 2021 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced.

Among the categories announced were:

Best illustrated book

• Billy Apple®: Life/Work (Christina Barton, Auckland University Press), designed by Arch MacDonnell and Alexandra Turner, Inhouse Design
• DOT (Kieran E Scott, PRH New Zealand), designed by Katrina Duncan, Kieran E Scott & Tam West
• Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa (ed by Katie Kerr, GLORIA Books) designed by Katie Kerr
• Endless Sea: Stories told through the taonga of the New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa (Frances Walsh & Jane Ussher, Massey University Press), designed by Alan Deare and Dave McDonald, Area Design
• It does no harm to wonder/the body of the work (Richard Reddaway, Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History), designed by Jo Bailey, Anna Brown, Sarah Hall, & Richard Reddaway
• Karl Maughan (ed by Hannah Valentine & Gabriella Stead, Auckland University Press), designed by Hannah Valentine, Gow Langsford Gallery
• Lockdown: Tales from Aotearoa (ed by Sarah Pepperle, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū), designed by Aaron Beehre
• Nature – Stilled (Jane Ussher, Te Papa Press), designed by Arch MacDonnell, Alistair McCready, Dean Foster, Jane MacDonnell, Inhouse Design
• Somewhere Else (Lucinda Birch, Lost in a Fog), designed by Lily Paris West & Lucinda Birch

Best children’s book

• Hare & Ruru: A Quiet Moment (Laura Shallcrass, Beatnik Publishing), designed by Laura Shallcrass
• I Am the Universe (Vasanti Unka, PRH New Zealand), designed by Vasanti Unka
• The Inkberg Enigma (Jonathan King, Gecko Press), designed by Jonathan King
• Mihi (Gavin Bishop, Gecko Press), designed by Vida Kelly, Vida and Luke Kelly Design
• Mophead Tu: The Queen’s Poem (Selina Tusitala Marsh, Auckland University Press), designed by Vida Kelly, Vida and Luke Kelly Design
• My Little Book of Bugs|Taku Pukapuka Iti Mō Ngā Pepeke (Te Papa Press), designed by Catherine Adam, Wonderbird Design Studio
• What Adults Don’t Know About Art & What Adults Don’t Know About Architecture (The School of Life), designed by Katie Kerr

Best cookbook

• Egg and Spoon – An Illustrated Cookbook (Alexandra Tylee & Giselle Clarkson, Gecko Press), designed by Vida Kelly, Vida and Luke Kelly Design
• Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine (Monique Fiso, PRH New Zealand), designed by Cat Taylor and Rachel Clark
• Supergood (Chelsea Winter, PRH New Zealand), designed by Helen Gilligan-Reid and Cat Taylor

Best commercial book for adults 

• Bella (Annabel Langbein, A&U), designed by Kate Barraclough, Kate Frances Design
• Husna’s Story: My wife, the Christchurch massacre & my journey to forgiveness (Farid Ahmed, A&U), designed by Kate Barraclough, Kate Frances Design
• Wild Kinship: Conversations with Conscious Entrepreneurs (Monique Hemmingson, Beatnik Publishing), designed by Sally Greer

Best cover

• Agency of Hope: The story of the Auckland City Mission 1920–2020 (Peter Lineham, Massey University Press), cover designed by Tim Denee
• Down South: In search of the Great Southern Land (Bruce Ansley, HarperCollins NZ), cover designed by Julia Murray
• Head Girl (Freya Daly Sadgrove, Victoria University Press), cover designed by Callum Devlin
• The Liminal Space (Jacquie McRae, Huia Publishers), cover designed by Christine Ling, Huia Publishers
• The New New Zealand: Facing demographic disruption (Paul Spoonley, Massey University Press) Cover designed by Gideon Keith, Seven
• The Swimmers (Chloe Lane, Victoria University Press), cover designed by Fergus Barrowman

Emerging designer award

• Camilla Lau (Goddess Muscle, Karlo Mila, Huia Publishers & The Pōrangi Boy, Shilo Kino, Huia Publishers)
• Alexandra Turner (Billy Apple®: Life/Work, Christina Barton, Auckland University Press; Gretchen Albrecht: After Goya, ed by Kimberly Davis, Michael Lett & Living History: The Landing and Britomart, Jeremy Hansen, Cooper and Company).

The winners in all categories, including the Gerard Reid Award for Best Book overall prize, which last year went to Mophead (Selina Tusitala Marsh, Auckland University Press, designed by Vida Kelly, Vida and Luke Kelly Design), will be announced on Thursday, 23 September in Auckland.

For more information and to see the finalists in all categories, visit the awards website here.

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