Thursday 19 September
Māori and Pasifika designers
have taken out the top honours at the 2024 PANZ Book Design
Awards, held in Auckland this evening.
The supreme
award, the Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored
by Nielsen BookData, went to Rewi: Āta haere,
kia tere by Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen (Massey
University Press), a tribute to the late architect Rewi
Thompson.
The book’s cover was designed by Tyrone
Ohia and Eva Charlton from design agency Extended Whānau,
and the interior by Tyrone Ohia, Eva Charlton, Max
Quinn-Tapara (Extended Whānau) and Katrina
Duncan.
The designers are credited with crafting a
work of bold elegance, where every detail — from the
colour palette to the thoughtful typography — celebrates
Rewi’s legacy.
The judging panel said
the approach from the design team can be summed up in the he
mihi at the opening of the book: “We battle, strive and
live to tame this great fish that Māui caught. Our
youthfulness allows us to be playful, energetic, lively,
enthusiastic and experimental and not overburdened by the
weight of our past.”
Rewi: Āta
haere, kia tere and Pacific Arts Aotearoa, edited
by Lana Lopesi (Penguin Random House NZ in association with
Pacific Arts, Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa) and
designed by Shaun Naufahu (Alt Group) and Katrina Duncan,
were vying for the top spot in three of the most hotly
contested categories.
Pacific Arts Aotearoa was
the winner of the Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
Award for Best Typography while Rewi: Āta
haere, kia tere took out the HarperCollins
Publishers Award for Best Cover, before the shock
announcement that both titles would receive the honour of
Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best
Illustrated Book.
The judges were split down
the middle and felt strongly that both books were equally
worthy of the prize so made the unusual decision to award it
to both titles.
Finally, attendees at the ceremony had
the chance to play judge and vote for the book they
considered most beautiful. The audience clearly agreed with
the judges and Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere was awarded
the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand People’s
Choice Award.
Other winners included Past
the Tower, Under the Tree: Twelve Stories of Learning in
Community edited by Balamohan Shingade and Erena
Shingade (GLORIA Books) designed by Katie Kerr, which won
the Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated
Book.While The Observologist by beloved
children’s author and illustrator Giselle Clarkson (Gecko
Press) designed by Vida Kelly, was awarded the
Scholastic New Zealand Award for Best Children’s
Book.
The highly anticipated Allen
& Unwin Award for Best Commercial Book for Adults
went to Fungi of Aotearoa by Liv Sisson
(Penguin Random House NZ), designed by Carla Sy. And the
always hotly contested 1010 Printing Award for Best
Cookbook was taken out by Enjoy: Food Worth
Sharing with the People You Love by Kelly Gibney
(Beatnik), designed by Sally Greer.
The awards also
recognise the best in Aotearoa’s vibrant educational
publishing scene with the Lift Education Award for
Best Educational Book or Series — Primary going
to Kuwi & Friends He Puka Ngohe: Activity Book by
Kat Quin, translated by Pānia Papa (Illustrated
Publishing), designed by Kat Quin and Chelsea McKirdy. The
Lift Education Award for Best Educational Book or
Series — Secondary/Tertiary was won by Reo Ora
– Ko Te Weu Level Three: A Māori Language Course for
Intermediate Learners by Rāpata Wiri (Huia Publishers),
designed by Camilla Lau
The PANZ Book Design Awards
were established by the Publishers Association of New
Zealand (PANZ) to promote excellence in, and provide
recognition for, the best book design in New
Zealand.
PANZ Book Design Awards Winners
(Photo/Supplied)
The 2024 PANZ Book
Design Award Winners are:
Gerard Reid Award for Best
Book sponsored by Nielsen BookData
• Rewi: Āta
haere, kia tere by Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen (Massey
University Press). Cover designed by Tyrone Ohia
& Eva Charlton (Extended Whānau), interior by Tyrone
Ohia, Eva Charlton, Max Quinn-Tapara (Extended Whānau)
& Katrina Duncan
Penguin Random
House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book (Joint
winners) • Pacific Arts Aotearoa edited by
Lana Lopesi (Penguin Random House NZ in association with
Pacific Arts, Creative New Zealand |Toi Aotearoa).
Cover designed by Shaun Naufahu (Alt Group),
interior by Shaun Naufahu (Alt Group) & Katrina
Duncan
• Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere
by Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen (Massey University
Press). Cover designed by Tyrone Ohia & Eva
Charlton (Extended Whānau), interior by Tyrone Ohia, Eva
Charlton, Max Quinn-Tapara (Extended Whānau) & Katrina
Duncan
Upstart Press Award for Best
Non-Illustrated Book
• Past the Tower, Under the
Tree: Twelve Stories of Learning in Community edited by
Balamohan Shingade and Erena Shingade (GLORIA Books).
Designed by Katie Kerr
Scholastic
New Zealand Award for Best Children’s Book
•
The Observologist by Giselle Clarkson (Gecko Press).
Designed by Vida Kelly
Allen &
Unwin Award for Best Commercial Book for Adults
•
Fungi of Aotearoa by Liv Sisson (Penguin Random House
NZ). Designed by Carla Sy
1010
Printing Award for Best Cookbook
• Enjoy: Food
Worth Sharing with the People You Love by Kelly Gibney
(Beatnik). Designed by Sally
Greer
HarperCollins Publishers Award for
Best Cover
• Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere by
Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen (Massey University Press).
Cover designed by Tyrone Ohia & Eva Charlton
(Extended Whānau)
Hachette Aotearoa New
Zealand Award for Best Typography
• Pacific Arts
Aotearoa edited by Lana Lopesi (Penguin Random House NZ
in association with Pacific Arts, Creative New Zealand|Toi
Aotearoa). Cover designed by Shaun Naufahu (Alt
Group), interior by Shaun Naufahu (Alt Group) & Katrina
Duncan
Lift Education Award for Best
Educational Book or Series — Primary
• Kuwi
& Friends He Puka Ngohe: Activity Book by Kat
Quin, translated by Pānia Papa (Illustrated Publishing).
Designed by Kat Quin and Chelsea
McKirdy
Lift Education Award for Best
Educational Book or Series — Secondary/Tertiary
• Reo Ora – Ko Te Weu Level Three: A Māori
Language Course for Intermediate Learners by Rāpata
Wiri (Huia Publishers). Designed by Camilla
Lau
Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand
People’s Choice Award
• Rewi: Āta haere, kia
tere by Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen (Massey University
Press). Cover designed by Tyrone Ohia & Eva
Charlton (Extended Whānau), interior by Tyrone Ohia, Eva
Charlton, Max Quinn-Tapara (Extended Whānau) & Katrina
Duncan
THE JUDGING PANEL
Anna
Brown
Anna Brown is a New Zealand-based designer and
typographer. Working with visual artists, curators and
musicians she investigates through form, materials and
typography how the vehicle of the book can animate and
amplify the content it contains. She is the Director of Toi
Āria — Design for Public Good, a research unit harnessing
design for positive social change. Anna is a Professor at
Massey University’s College of Creative Arts.
Te
Kani Price
Te Kani Price (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te
Whakatōhea) is a Programme Manager and Creative Director at
HUIA Publishers. Delivering daring book covers and interiors
for the past decade that bring an authentically Aotearoa
perspective. Te Kani designs together with the in-house team
at HUIA with manaakitanga as its core value. In 2022 Te Kani
won Emerging Designer at the PANZ Book Design
Awards.
Chloe Blade
Chloe Blades is a
bookseller, social media manager and book club host at Unity
Books in Auckland, which won Best Bookshop in the World at
the 2020 London Book Fair. Alongside reviewing books on
TVNZ’s Breakfast Show, she has written for The Spinoff,
WOMAN magazine and Crane Brothers. Last year,
Chloe received a RISE Booksellers scholarship to go to San
Francisco and work at the Booksmith in Haight Ashbury. Chloe
holds a BA(Hons) in English Literature from Loughborough
University.
Simon Waterfield
Simon Waterfield
is a designer at Lift Education, with expertise in
educational and literacy design and children’s publishing.
Simon holds a Bachelor of Design from Wellington
Polytechnic/Victoria University and has twice previously
been a judge for the PANZ book design awards, as well as
being shortlisted. He has chaired sessions with children’s
book creators Oliver Jeffers and Leo Timmers, and has been a
judge for The Arts Foundation’s Mallinson Rendel
Illustrators Award (2015 and
2017).
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