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Focal Print takes out Grand Diemen, Special Award for Craig Pearce
1 Special Presentation: Craig Pearce (centre), Flying Colours; with (l-r) Peter Clark, president, PVCA; Steven Woods, SW Graphics; Gary Nilsson, Mercury Walch;
Hobart operation Focal Print took out the Grand Diemen for
Print in Tasmania’s 8th annual Dieman Awards, with Mercury Walch scooping the pool in the other six print categories.
A Special Presentation was made to Craig Pearce, Flying Colours, in appreciation for services to the Tasmanian print industry. Brad Thorp from Abel Labels took out the Print Apprentice of the Year award.
Mercury Walch took the award in Four-Colour Print, in Digital Books, Packaging, Point of Sale, Print Embellishments and Stationery.
The Tasmanian Diemen Awards is an event
celebrating excellence in the Tasmanian Creative and Craft Industries. With four major categories in Advertising and Communications, Digital, Design, and Print – The
Media Super Grand Diemens
– described as a “spiky and quite dangerous” brass award is presented to the winner in each discipline.
In its eighth year, the awards were formed from what was the PICA awards, to include the
1 Sam Dobie, Inclusive Creatives;
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creative industries, and have grown again this year to boast record entries across the bulk of the categories.
A committee of eight
people from all corners of the advertising, design, digital and
print industries volunteer to
organise the entire event so
that Tasmanian companies and
their work can be celebrated 2 and recognised.
MC was Dr Polly McGee,
Welcome to Country was given
by Caleb Nicols-Mansell. The
Diemen co-chairs are Adam
Glover from printer Mercury
Walch and Amr Elsayed from
creative agency The20. Chair
of Judges was Heath Collins,
creative director at Cummins
and Partners, Melbourne. Main
sponsor of the Diemens is
Media Super. 3
Adam Glover said, “The evening was a real celebration. The Diemens brings together the whole creative community in Tasmania. There were 160 people at the event, which
was terrific, and we had 200 entries.”
The organisers are now
planning an exhibition of the 4 winning entries, of which there
were 33 across all categories. 21
Amr Elsayed and Adam Glover
(co chairs); and Michael Childs, Ball & Doggett
2 Media Super Grand Diemen for Print Award: (l-r) accepted by
Sam Dobie, Inclusive Creatives, on behalf of
Focal Printing, presented by Steven Assimo, Media Super; with Amr Elsayed and Adam Glover
3 Tasmanian celebration: (l-r) Adam Glover; Michael Childs; Print Judge - Kirsten Taylor, Taylor’d Press; Zaidee Jackson, Alan Didus, Kyrran Lewis,
Ball & Doggett
4 Co-chairs
Adam Glover (l) and Amr Elsayed (r), with (l-r) Eric Black and Steven Assimo, from main sponsor Media Super