PANZ BOOK DESIGN AWARDS 2013 WINNERS - “BOLD AND BRASH” WINS DESIGNER ALAN DEARE FOUR AWARDS

Four of the eight category awards at last night’s PANZ Book Design Awards ceremony were scooped by Alan Deare, of AREA Design.

The beautifully illustrated On Song: Stories Behind New Zealand’s Pop Classics won both the Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by Nielsen Book Services and the Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book. The awards judges applauded On Song for the way its design embraced the content and musicality of the book, capturing the subject and drawing the reader in with its reference to popular culture.

Convening judge Gideon Keith described it as “a book that truly celebrates New Zealand pop classics; bold, brash, colourful and entertaining.”

Alan Deare was also announced the winner of the Mary Egan Publishing Award for Best Typography and the 1010 Printing Award for Best Cookbook with another title, Hunter from the Heartland: Recipes & Stories from Masterchef Favourite Cameron Petley, a book in which the design elements “all fit perfectly with the apparent blokeishness of the author, handled with enviable grace and style.”

Other winners announced at the ceremony were designers Ali Teo and John O’Reilly who took away the Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book for their title Melu, described by the judges as exuding “quiet confidence indicative of designers in full command of their craft.”

The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature also delivered on the night, winning both the HarperCollins Publishers Award for Best Cover (designer Scott Crickett) and the Hachette New Zealand Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book (Scott Crickett and Katrina Duncan).

The judges felt that this was an understated but self-assured piece of design work and that they could “spend a long time exploring the subtleties of Scott Crickett’s design.”

The Pearson Award for Best Educational Book was given to designers Cameron Gibb (Neu Design) and Cheryl Rowe for their simple and elegant design of Essential Maths and Stats for Higher Education, a title that was also shortlisted in the best cover category.

GERARD REID AWARD FOR BEST BOOK SPONSORED BY NIELSEN BOOK SERVICES

WINNER
Title	Designer
On Song: Stories Behind New Zealand’s Pop Classicsby Simon Sweetman (Penguin)	Alan Deare (Area Design)

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS AWARD FOR BEST COVER

WINNER
Title	Designer
The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams (eds) (Auckland University Press)	Scott Crickett

RANDOM HOUSE NEW ZEALAND AWARD FOR BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK

WINNER
Title	Designer
On Song: Stories Behind New Zealand’s Pop Classicsby Simon Sweetman (Penguin)	Alan Deare (Area Design)

HACHETTE NEW ZEALAND AWARD FOR BEST NON-ILLUSTRATED BOOK

WINNER
Title	Designer
The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature by Jane Stafford and Mark Williams (eds) (Auckland University Press)	Cover: Scott Crickett Interior: Katrina Duncan

SCHOLASTIC NEW ZEALAND AWARD FOR BEST CHILDREN’S BOOK

WINNER
Title	Designer
Melu by Kyle Mewburn, Ali Teo, John O’Reilly (Scholastic)	Ali Teo and John O’Reilly

PEARSON AWARD FOR BEST EDUCATIONAL BOOK

WINNER
Title	Designer
Essential Maths and Stats for Higher Education by David Barton and David Cox (Pearson)	Cheryl Rowe Cover: Cameron Gibb (Neu Design)

1010 PRINTING AWARD FOR BEST COOKBOOK

WINNER
Title	Designer
Hunter from the Heartland: Recipes & Stories from Masterchef Favourite Cameron Petley by Cameron Petley (Random House)	Alan Deare (Area Design)

MARY EGAN PUBLISHING AWARD FOR BEST TYPOGRAPHY

WINNER
Title	Designer
Hunter from the Heartland: Recipes & Stories from Masterchef Favourite Cameron Petley by Cameron Petley (Random House)	Alan Deare (Area Design)

PANZ YOUNG DESIGNER OF THE YEAR 2013

Kate Barraclough

·       A Fabled Land: The Story of Canterbury’s Famous Mesopotamia Station by Bruce Ansley with Peter Bush (Random House) ·       A Life at Mudbrick: Stories and Recipes from Waiheke’s Famous Mudbrick Vineyard and Restaurant by Robyn Jones (Random House) ·       Soon by Charlotte Grimshaw (Random House) ·       The Food Truck Cookbook by Michael Van de Elzen (Random House) ·       The Power of Us: New Zealanders Who Dare to Dream by Sir Ray Avery with Cameron Bennett and Adrian Malloch (Random House)