Fespa Awards open

Entries are now being invited for the Fespa 2015 Awards. The competition, open to any print service provider globally, will culminate at a prize-giving ceremony at Fespa 2015 in Cologne next May. 

This year there are 21 awards categories (see below), each of which can be entered with work created using either a digital print process, screen print process or a combination of any print process.

Entries to the awards, sponsored by Kornit Digital, MS Printing Solutions and Mimaki will be judged by an independent panel of industry experts. The judging criteria is: excellence in execution and technical expertise of print quality; appropriate use of techniques, design, media; creativity for the application; and selling efficiency/ROI for the end user of the printed item. All entries must have supporting documentation which will give an explanation of the technique used, high resolution imagery and samples of the print.

Outside of the application-led categories, there are four separate categories: Young Star, Best in Show, Fespa Hall of Fame Award and People’s Choice. The Young Star award is open to an employee or student in a print related discipline between 16 and 25. Best in Show is decided by the judges, from the shortlisted entries, for the piece of work that offers the most outstanding example of print. The Hall of Fame Award is dedicated to the best printer, voted for by the Fespa community from a shortlist of printers nominated by their peers. The People’s Choice award is also voted for by the Fespa community at Koelnmesse during Fespa 2015.

Full list of application categories is as follows:

Category 1

Point of Purchase Products - printing on paper and board, including paper banners and backlit papers.

Category 2

Point of Purchase Products – printed on all types of plastics, including plastic banners and backlit plastic and lenticular, plastic printing in sheets, flexible or rigid.

Category 3

Posters, single sheets and multi-sheets.

Category 4

Calendars, postcards, greetings and Christmas cards.

Category 5

Original serigraphies and giclées - printed in limited editions, signed or unsigned, in which the artist is involved in the creative process.

Category 6

Fine art reproductions, books, brochures, accurate reproduction of existing paintings or other pieces of art.

Category 7

Decals, printed labels, fleet marking, window decals, etc. printed pressure sensitive substrates, plastics or other substrates for promotion, decoration or corporate identity.

Category 8

Special effect screen printed over offset, digital or screen printed images and other innovative applications.

Category 9

Special effect on T-shirts and other, including embroidery, additions of pearls, metal, printed circuits, etc.

Category 10

T-shirts and other garments, caps, direct printing or transfers.

Category 11

Pennants, banners, tapestries, draperies, other textile products e.g. bags, scarves, ties and canvas etc.

Category 12

Roll to roll printed textile for decoration or fashion.

Category 13

Glass and ceramic, e.g. tableware, tiles, glasses, mirrors – curved and flat, direct printing, decals and backlit.

Category 14

Metal and wood products, signs and objects.

Category 15

Direct printing on three-dimensional products, bottles, mugs, skis, packaging etc.

Category 16

Miscellaneous: compact disks, credit and phone cards, automobiles, IMD, fascias, dials, nameplates, signs, gauges etc. printed circuits and membrane switches, hybrid circuits, RFIDs, solar cells, etc.

Category 17

Cross media print campaign of the year - entries must include an element of print, and may also include but are not limited to live media, interactive displays and signage, social media, online interactivity, live events, mobile apps, scannable codes, personalisation and printed products.

Category 18

Young star Award

Category 19

Fespa Hall of Fame Award

Category 20

Best in Show

Category 21

People's choice Award

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