Australians awarded bronze and silver at FESPA 2019

The winners of this year’s FESPA Awards was announced last week, with Australian entrants Cactus Imaging and Seen Technology scooping bronze and silver, respectively.

Cactus Imaging’s Amex Building Wrap (at Sydney Airport car park) won the bronze award in the poster category. Known to be Australia’s largest building wrap at 101m x 21m, it was printed in five metre widths on the Fujifilm Uvistar Pro 8 and welded together to make three 34m wide pieces.

Seen Technology won two silver awards for:

• Fletcher Jones Plus 8 Sign Restoration, in the category non-printed signage.  Originally installed in the 1940's at the Fletcher Jones clothing business in Victoria, the F J Plus 8 man was scanned from the last remaining moulds and then replicated using the Massivit 1800 3D printer. The 2.5 metre tool by 1080 mm wide was then coated in polyurethane epoxy and sprayed to match the original. The finished sign was mounted  to a steel fabricated frame and installed with lighting powered by solar energy.
• Australia Post 3D Printed Limited Edition Stamps, in the category direct printing on 3D products.

The gold winners of the application categories are:

Also announced at the Gala Dinner were the winners of the three following categories:

• The Young Star Award, was presented to design student, Antonio Tsigonias, of T.E.I. Athens, Department of Graphic Arts Technology in Greece for his entry titled “Garden Team”.  The Young Star Award is marked across all print related categories and open to entrants aged between 16 and 25 working as a junior employee, trainee or student.
• This year’s People’s Choice Award winner, which is voted for online by FESPA’s global speciality print community, was presented to PVG'S Maharashtra Institute of Printing Technology in India for their entry titled “Screen Printing Graphics” submitted in the Young Star category.
• The Best in Show Award is judged across all categories on the work that the judges felt represented the most outstanding example of print. This year the award was presented to two companies, Atelier fuer Siebdruck from Switzerland, for its screen printed entry “Creativ Verpacken” in the Serigraphies and Fine Art category and VGL from the United Kingdom for its digitally printed entry “Beefeater Gin Underground Poster Campaign” in the Posters category.

For a full list of the FESPA Award winners and runners up, visit www.fespaawards.com.