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National Print Awards
Taylor’d takes top spot in nati
For the first time in its 37-year history, the National Print Awards took place online, as Covid prevented the annual night of nights from firing up. Printers across the country gathered around their screens and watched the live-streaming event.
Boutique Melbourne print business Taylor’d Press emerges as the country’s de facto best printer with more golds than anyone else, five, at this year's
National Print Awards.
Taylor’d also won the Judges Award,
and joint-owner Kirsten Taylor won the inaugural Exceptional Woman in Print award.
AIW founder Peter Clark took home the Lifetime Achievement award. Clark joined the industry in 1963. He went on to found AIW, at the time the most advanced heatset printer in the county. It was bought by IVE three years ago.
Scott Mason of Payne Print won the Media Super Young Executive of the Year award. The Creative Sustainability Award went to Aleks Lajovic’s Impact International.
The 37th National Print Awards was live-streamed, on the PVCA’s Facebook page for the first time in its history,
with the coronavirus halting attempts to run a live event. The state PICAs which fed into the NPAs were similarly live-streamed two weeks ago.
All Gold award winning work is due to be on display at Parliament House in Canberra for the annual Print2Parliament event, due to take place in October. But, with sitting currently suspended a question mark hangs over the event.
Judges Award Winner: The A6 sized debit card mailer Up Banking was printed in three spot colours, went through letterpress and was forme cut on a matt 400gsm card.
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