5 Nov 2024

Shower Thoughts: How do you judge a book by its cover?

From Nights, 9:15 pm on 5 November 2024

Professor Anna Brown is from Massey University's College of Creative Arts.

She is also the chair of Massey University Press, and was the the convening judge of the Publishers Assocation of New Zealand's Book Design Awards.

She joins Emile Donovan to explain how people judge a book by its cover - and what makes a design work.

book jackets from winning books in the 2023 PANZ Book Design Awards

Some of the winning covers in the 2023 PANZ Book Design Awards. Photo: