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Fuiono from Blue Star Collard top apprentice
Blue Star Collard (Auckland) printer Kosema Fuiono was named BJ Ball Papers
Apprentice of the Year on stage at the Pride In Print Awards.
Fuiono charmed the crowd with a humble, generous and humorous speech, describing the “impossible becoming the possible”. 21
Above Apprentice of the Year: Kosema Fuiono, Blue Star Collard
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Logick Print takes Supreme Award – for the fourth time
Acomplex and multi-faceted exhibition of promotional print work saw Penrose- based Logick Print earn the coveted Pride In Print Supreme Award for 2022 – the fourth such title for the specialist print house and industry innovator.
Titled “Touchy Feely”,
the promotional pocket-
book of embellished stocks commissioned by B&F Papers – which also took out the Business Print Category Award – blew Pride in Print judges away.
“From a finishing point
of view, there are not many jobs that encompass so many different embellishments, all in the one place, and they get them all completely right throughout,” said judges.
Supreme Winners: David Gick and the Logick team
The anti-bacterial gloss and matte cello glazing film that inhibits the growth of microbes, and kills 99% of bacteria, fungi and mould.
Recyclable, and effective for the intended lifetime of your product.
“This is a job that everyone who looks at it says how fantastic it is. There are foils, bright
inks, perforating stamp work, binding, creasing and assembly. The whole thing is technically superb, sharp and beautiful.”
Logick director David Gick said his small, committed team embraced the considerable challenges in the brief to illustrate to the industry
“what can be done” on the particularly-textured range
of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified stocks.
“We’re happy to work with people who believe we can push the boundaries and we certainly did that with that job,” he said. “We’ve built that history over
a number of years and they’ve seen the work that we’ve produced and how we have progressed it, and I’d like to say now there is the trust that if we can say we can go to that next level, they have the confidence that we can produce it.”
Gick said the job presented the opportunity to break
new boundaries and “not just produce the same old, same old”.
“With it being a promotional piece, we were able to show Foilco foils to the market and say ‘hey, there is a little bit of different inspiration here’.
“We made sure the deboss was out of this world and the same with the emboss with a solid black cover.
“We made sure that what we did, we did very, very well. We didn’t just want to produce the same techniques and do it as usual – we wanted to push it as far as we could go.”
Gick said Logick has received “amazing comments” from the principal client and partners involved in the project.
“They have been particularly impressed with the foiling, debossing and embossing being ‘perfectly executed’ without damaging the texture of paper. From a print-buyer’s perspective, it’s all of those things that they look for in a job – especially with a heavily- textured and uncoated stock.”
Gick also said the work has generated international interest. “It is the first time that, with a promotion, we have had requests from overseas – Europe, the United States, Singapore and Asia in general – wanting a copy, and we sent those.
“What we do these days is about making sure it is a world- class job. This work has gone all around the world and to get that type of feedback shows we are pushing those boundaries.”
Logick also won the Paper and Board Packaging Category for its Pure Mama Product Packaging as well as the Letterpress Process for its Special Edition 2022 Calendar.
The judges said, “The quality stood out immediately.” 21
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