The Fespa Awards winners are….

The winners of this year’s Fespa Awards have been announced at gala dinner during Fespa Global in Munich.

The gold winners of the application categories are: ‘Posters’ - VGL, UK; ‘Display and packaging on paper and board’ - Perfect Packaging, India; ‘Display and packaging on plastic’ - Spectrum Scan, India; ‘Serigraphies and fine art’ - Atelier fuer Siebdruck, Switzerland; ‘Decals and printed labels’ - Classic Stripes, India; ‘Creative special effects - paper, board and plastics’ - Atelier fuer Siebdruck, Switzerland; ‘Special effects on T-shirts, garments and other textiles’ - Teximport Group, Russia; ‘Printed garments’ - iMaika, Russia; ‘Roll-to-roll printed textiles’ - The Look Company, Canada; ‘Glass, ceramic, metals and wood products’ - Classic Stripes, India; ‘Direct printing on 3D products’ - Flip Ziedses Des Plantes, Netherlands; ‘Functional printing’ - Permark Industries, New Zealand. The ‘Young Star Award’ was presented to design student Antonio Tsigonias of TEI Athens, Department of Graphic Arts Technology in Greece for his entry titled ‘Garden Team’. This year’s ‘People’s Choice Award winner - voted for online - was presented to PVG'S Maharashtra Institute of Printing Technology in India for the 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 - VGL from the UK for its digitally printed entry ‘Beefeater Gin Underground Poster Campaign’ in the ‘Posters’ category, and Atelier fuer Siebdruck from Switzerland for its screenprinted entry ‘Creativ Verpacken’ in the ‘Serigraphies and fine art’ category.