LFP - Large-Format-Printing
FESPA Awards 2020 winners announced
Tuesday 22. September 2020 - The Awards are open to print service providers (PSPs) and sign-makers looking to highlight outstanding projects. This years programme received entries from 27 countries across the 18 categories. The winners were announced during an online ceremony hosted by FESPAs Technical Support Manager, Graeme Richardson-Locke, in lieu of the live Gala Awards event which would have taken place during this years Global Print Expo in Madrid.
FESPA has announced the winners of this years FESPA Awards, its annual celebration of excellence in the global speciality print and visual communications community.
The Gold winners in the 17 application-specific categories are:
Category Company Country
Display and POP on Paper and Board Ability Diseño Gráfico, SL Spain
Packaging on Paper and Board Perfect Packaging India
Display and POP on Plastic Screenline South Africa
Packaging on Plastics TOPdesign Topolcany s.r.o. Slovakia
Posters GRAFISER,S.A Spain
Serigraphy and Fine Art Christian M. Walter – Taller de Serigrafía- Edición Spain
Decals and Printed Labels Classic Stripes PVT. LTD India
Wrapping Vermeulen & Vermeulen Reclame Netherlands
Creative Special Effect – Paper, Board and Plastics Sakawa Printing Co., Ltd. Japan
Special Effect on T-Shirts, Garments and Other Textiles Elixir Unlimited India
Printed Garments iMaika Russia
Roll-to-roll Printed Textiles The Look Company Qatar
Glass, Ceramic, Metal and Wood Products Schitterend.eu Netherlands
Direct Printing on Three Dimensional Products HAAS Die Werbemanufaktur Switzerland
Non-printed Signage HNS Signs United Kingdom
Functional Printing Protolab Electrotechnologies PVT. LTD India
Printeriors BOBO1325 United Kingdom
The categories Packaging on Paper and Board, Packaging on Plastics, Wrapping and Printeriors were new to this years Awards scheme, recognising four important growth applications for speciality print and signage businesses.
Among this years entries, the judges selected two to receive Best in Show Awards for truly outstanding examples of print. These are Christian M. Walter – Taller de Serigrafía- Edición from Spain, for the entry “New York de Sergio García Sánchez” in the Serigraphy and Fine Art category, and The Look Company from Qatar for its Roll-to-Roll Printed Textiles entry “Anoc World Beach Games”.
Members of the FESPA community selected the Peoples Choice Award from the shortlisted entries, with Sakawa Printing Company from Japan taking this honour for its Japanese Fishes Calendar in the Creative Special Effect – Paper, Board and Plastics category.
New to the 2020 Awards is the Judges Award for Innovation which was handed to HAAS Die Werbemanufaktur from Switzerland for its 3D Printed Beer Bottle Breaks Through Glass entry in the Direct Printing on Three-Dimensional Products category. Graeme Richardson-Locke, FESPA Awards Judge, commented: “This entry was selected as winner of the Judges Award for Innovation for being a brilliantly executed and creative concept using a combination of 3D printing, vinyl wrapping and detail fabrication”.
Entries were also invited for the Young Star category, for junior print industry employees, trainees or students aged between 16 and 25. The 2020 Young Star winner is PVGs Maharashtra Institute of Printing Technology in India for their entry, “Save Tigers Before They are Silenced Forever”. “This students work shows ambition in reproduction and design, using four colour processes and special effect varnishes.” Graeme explains why this entry was awarded Gold.
Christian Duyckaerts, FESPA President comments: “Championing print excellence and promoting the unique power of print is central to FESPAs mission. With the FESPA Awards, we want to inspire our global community to keep developing fresh ideas and using advances in technology and materials to add new dimensions to the work they produce for customers, as a foundation for continued growth. Judging this work is a privilege because it reminds us that print – in all its many forms and applications – is creative, beautiful and, above all, effective. We extend our congratulations to all our 2020 winners.”