51St Annual Book Design Awards 2002 the Australian Publishers Association 51St Annual Book Design Awards 2002
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The Australian Publishers Association 51st annual book design awards 2002 The Australian Publishers Association 51st annual book design awards 2002 The Australian Publishers Association 51st Annual Book Design Awards Catalogue generously sponsored by McPherson's Printing Group The Australian Publishers Association Ltd Printing by McPherson's Printing Group Suite 60, 89 Jones Street, Ultimo NSW 2007 5 Dunlop Rd. Mulgrave Victoria 3170 Email [email protected] Phone 03 9566 3111 web www.publishers.asn .au Fax 03 9562 1927 © Copyright 2003 Email [email protected] Internal photography by Katherine Bliss Design by Melissa Fraser Good book design is acknowledged and promoted in this country because of the continuing contributions of many supporters and advocates. Without them, these annual awards could not happen. The industry acknowledges them here. Thank you Warren Griffin and McPherson's Printing Group, Pageset, The Bindery, Allkotes and Dalton Fine Papers for their generous sponsorship of the catalogue. Colorwize Studios once again for providing the scanning. Murdoch Books for providing their beautiful venue at Millers Point, Sydney, for the cocktail party and award ceremony. Dawn Walton for her wonderful professionalism. ADOBE Software for their generous sponsorship of prizes for several of the winning designers. The sponsors of the individual categories- Australian Book Connection, The Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA), Allen & Unwin, AM COR Displays, Adobe Software, Ariel Booksellers, Better Read Than Dead Bookshop, Bookhouse, Brown Prior Anderson, Dymocks, Everbest Printing Company Ltd , Galaxy Books, Griffin Press, HarperCollins Publishers, Lamb Print, Hodder Headline Australia, Joyce Thorpe Nicholson, McPherson's Printing Group, Thomson Learning, Pearson Education Australia, Penguin Books Australia, Scholastic Australia, Tien Wah Press and Tappan Printing. Marcus Price and ANTART for designing the call for entries and Chippendale Printing for printing the call for entries. Edwina Johnson and HarperCollins for publicity and assistance with tickets and invitations. To the judges for so generously sharing their time and expertise. Their insightful and considered contributions allowed the judging process to run smoothly and efficiently. To our wonderful book design awards committee - Julie Donaldson, Fiona Hazard and Susan Lewis- for their enthusiasm and hard work. Their advocacy and assistance is invaluable. Congratulations to Melissa Fraser, for her wonderful design of Thai Food and for so graciously accepting the honour and challenge of designing this catalogue. Libby O'Donnell Book Design Awards Project Manager 0 < JUDGES ' REPORT The 51st Annual Book Design Awards have set new records in the number of entries and categories and presented the judges with a wonderful selection of titles and diverse design styles. In February 2003 a panel of six general judges and six specialist judges set about the interesting and challenging task of judging the 530 entries in the 51st awards to select the best-designed books published in Australia in 2002 across 23 ca tegories. The new categories added to this year's awards were - Best Designed Exhibition Catalogue or Book, Best Designed Non fiction (text) and Best Designed Non-fiction (illustrated). The Best Designed Exhibition Catalogue or Book was included as a distinct category as many of these books have struggled to find a niche in existing categories and because of the growth in publishing in this sector. To cope with the overwhelming number of entries in the non -fiction section, and the difficulty of comparing illustrated with non-illustrated books, the two new non-fiction categories emerged. In selecting titles, the judges considered how well the designer(s) satisfied their brief; they looked for imagination, originality, skill and flair; creativity in overcoming constraints inherent in the title and brief; and how legibility, format and organisation of text and illustration suited the functional requirements of the reader. Despite many excellent and well-executed designs, there was a general feeling among the judges that boundaries weren't being pushed and that a significant number of entries followed 'tried and tested' styles. The judges pondered whether this might be due to the current climate for book sales with sales and marketing departments wanting to play safe rather than risk new directions. The judges also observed that there was a reliance on stock photography to create the look, feel or atmosphere of a book rather than using colour, type, concept, space, composition to find new and original solutions. The judges recognise the many and varied challenges and constraints faced by designers, particularly time pressures , but they would like to encourage designers to challenge the boundaries and show publishing clients that a new approach can attract attention and actually generate sales. The judges would like to thank Joyce Thorpe Nicholson for allowing us the honour of naming the hall of fame after her. Joyce has been a dedicated supporter of Australian Book Design for more than 20 years and it is with pleasure that we announce the inaugural Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Design Hall of Fame. Congratulations and thanks to the designers and publishers for the many entries in this year's awards - the very finest of which are featured as finalists in this catalogue. JUDGES Cate Paterson has been the Fiction Publisher at Pan Macmillan for seven years. She made her start in publishing in London working for HarperCollins, Random House and, lastly, commissioning commercial fiction at Hodder Head line. Mary Callahan has been designing books for over 15 years and is twice winner of the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Best Designed Book of the Year (1997 and 2001). Formerly an in-house designer with McPhee Gribble, Penguin Books and Text Publishing, she started Mary Ca llahan Design Pty Ltd in 1993. Much of her design work since then has been for titles in the Picador literary fiction series by writers such as Richard Flanagan, Drusilla Modjeska, Tim Winton, Robert Dessaix, Helen Garner and Rob Drewe. Mary has lectured, written, spoken about and been awarded a Churchill Fellowship for book design. Also an emerging artist, Mary is currently a Monash University scholarship recipient for an MAin Fine Art that will, for a time, take her to the Royal College of Art in London. Born and raised in London , Nada Backovic attended the highly regarded London Col lege of Printing (LCP), where she studied graphic design. Nada has since accumulated over a decade of experience, predominantly in the publishing industry. She spent several years as a cover designer for Random House UK before moving to Australia, where she continued her involvement in publishing at Allen and Unwin . Nada has been a finalist for several APA design awards and commended for her cover 'Last Drinks' by Andrew McGahan. Her work ranges from mass market to literary fiction to all kinds of non-fiction, including business, history, politics, biographies and cookbooks. Nada recently left her position as Design Manager at Allen & Unwin to work as a freelance designer. Rowena Cseh has worked in the book industry for more than twenty years. Previously a bookseller, she is now the Publisher of Good Reading which is an independent magazine devoted to books and reading. Carol Davidson has more than 15 years experience in the publishing industry and is currently the Sales & Marketing Director at Random House Austra lia. In her previous role as Publisher at UQP she was responsible for commissioning Jenny Grigg to redesign the Peter Carey backlist which won several of last year's major design awards. Carol also spent three years as the Director of the Brisbane Writers Festival. Hari Ho has been head of production and design at Fine Arts Press for the past 10 years, producing Art & Australia, Art Asia Pacific and all of the art books in the Craftsman House imprint. He is now producing books and publications as a freelancer. Ha ri is also a photographer. specialist children 's book judges Margaret Hamilton was founder of the highly successfu l children's publishing company Margaret Hamilton Books, which is now an imprint of Scholastic Australia. Her hands-on approach to publishing won her several awards in previous APA design awards, as well as the Children's Book Council of Australia Children's Book of the Year Awards . She is now retired from full-time publishing and works as a part-time consultant to children's publishers. Carol Keeble is currently the owner/manager of the children's specialist bookshop Reading Matters in Rozelle, Sydney which she opened in 1995 with her partner Colin. Prior to this Carol taught high school English for approximately 25 years in schools in both the UK and Australia. Carol has a keen interest in picture books, fostered mainly through her family's involvement in the art world. Carol 's great grandfather owned a gallery, her grandfather was a dealer in watercolours and her father and brother have both made names for themselves for their watercolour paintings. Carol is married with three grown up chi ldren. specialist education judges Wendy Rapee has worked for over 12 years in Educational Publishing in a variety of roles from editorial to production and management. These days Wendy wears a number of hats ru nning her own "book-related" business that encompasses publishing a small list, consulting on publishing projects, project management. copy-writing and product development. Most recently Wendy studied computer graphic design and so has another string to her bow. She is about to embark on her first design of a book series after many years in publish ing tell ing designers what to do. She now has a ful l understanding of just what a skill book designing is and how she must have driven many a designer totally mad. Alison Thomas is the Product Development Manager, Child ren 's Education at Hodder Head line Austra lia. specialist multimedia judges Jan Zwar works in the lively, crossover area of media and education.