Scottish outdoors publisher, Pocket Mountains, has been shortlisted for a prestigious British Book Design Award. Pocket Mountains are the only Scottish publishing company to receive a nomination against a highly competitive field.
The nomination in the Best Brand/Series Category comes for Pocket Mountains’ Town and Country Walks series of guidebooks with its distinctive illustrated jackets. Walkhighlands co-founders, Helen and Paul Webster have written and photographed 7 of the titles in this series.
It is the Bo’ness-based publisher’s second nomination – in 2004 its Highlands & Islands series of mountain walking guides, writen by Nick Williams, which launched the company in 2003, reached the shortlist. The flagship guides havegone on to become the bestselling guides to hillwalking in Scotland.
Included in the new Town and Country Walks series are shorter walks guidebooks for Moray, Caithness & Sutherland, Skye & Raasay, Wester Ross & Lochalsh, Aviemore & the Cairngorms, Perthshire, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, Fife and Dumfries & Galloway.
The series can easily be identified by its pocket-sized format and illustrated jackets by Edinburgh-based illustrator Vicki Gausden with art direction from Pocket Mountains director Robbie Porteous.
Other publishers shortlisted in the Brand/Series Identity category are Book House, Orion Publishing Group and V&A Publishing. The winner will be announced at a dinner on Tuesday 5th October 2010 at London’s Lancaster Gate Hotel.
The Town and Country Walks books, price £6.99 each, are available from all good outdoor stores and bookshops, online direct from Pocket Mountains www.pocketmountains.com, or via this link on Amazon.