FESPA reveals winners of its 2018 Awards

The winners of FESPA’s 2018 Awards were announced at its annual Gala Dinner, which took place at the Classic Remise in Berlin on Wednesday 16 May, during FESPA Global Print Expo 2018.
The winners of the application categories are:
Category | Company | Country |
Point of Purchase Products – Paper and Board | Ocyan | Portugal |
Point of Purchase Products – Plastic | MIDI PRINT LLC | Russia |
Posters | Digital Print Center | Qatar |
Serigraphies and Fine Art | Harwood King Printmakers | UK |
Decals, Printed Labels, Fleet Marking and Window decals | Signbox Limited | UK |
Special Effect Printing | Kendu In-store Visual Solutions | Spain |
Special Effect T-Shirt and Garment Printing | A-Design Ink | Russia |
T-shirts and Other Garments | IMaika LTD | Russia |
Roll-to-Roll Printed Textile | X-Treme Creations | Belgium |
Glass, Ceramic, Metal and Wood Products | Kroma SA | France |
Non-Printed Signage | HNS Signs | UK |
Functional Printing | Protolab Electrotechnologies PVT.LTD | India |
Also announced at the Gala Dinner were the winners of the three following categories:
- The 2018 Young Star Award, which is marked across all categories and is open to those aged 15-25, went to Steph Bourazanis from the UK for her entry, of a digitally printed photograph using both abstract and macro photography, titled The Unknown.
- This year’s People’s Choice winner, voted for online by FESPA’s global print community from the shortlisted entries, was presented to Sac Serigrafia SRL of Italy for its Naïve colors entry in the Glass, Ceramic, Metal and Wood Products category.
- The Best in Show Award, selected by the judges from all of the gold Award winners as the piece of work that they felt represented the most outstanding example of print, went to Harwood King Printmakers, UK, for its entry titled Flower Girl in the Serigraphies and Fine Art category.
For a full list of Award winners and runners up, visit www.fespaawards.com
The shortlisted entries to the FESPA Awards are currently on display at FESPA Global Print Expo 2018 and can be viewed until Friday 18 May. For more information, visit: www.fespaglobalprintexpo.com
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