Swiss Print Award 2019 - these are the winners

Edi Engelberger and Sandro Blättler (from left), of Engelberger Druck, won gold in the Publications category with the Ringier Annual Report (Photo: Anna Kohler, MK Werbewoche). More photos

21 Swiss print stores, agencies and companies submitted 27 print products for this year's competition. From these, the nine-member jury presented 13 winners in five categories with a Swiss Print Award. The winners received the award with a beaming smile, applauded by around 120 guests.

The award has been presented since 2013 under the motto "Lust for Print" and has already developed great appeal in the print industry.

Books category

• Gold: Kalt Medien - Chriesi - Cherry culture around Lake Zug and Rigi 
• Silver: Landquart print shop - memorable means of transport 
• Bronze: Heller printing - Resgia Veglia

Category Publications 

• Gold: Engelberger Druck - Annual Report Ringier
• Silver: Engelberger Druck - Diploma Publication MTR 2018 
• Bronze: Tiefgang Design - GasseZitig Lozärn 

Category Printed Objects 

• Gold: Bubu - Hapticarchitects Portfolio 
• Silver: Kasimir Meyer - CamuStyle TX 
• Bronze: Niedermann printing - playing cards set

Previous organizers withdraw

After presenting the awards, the previous organizers of the Swiss Print Award, Jean-Paul Thalmann, publisher of the Print Market Switzerlandand the editor-in-chief of the trade magazine, Klaus-Peter Nicolai, are announcing various changes: Both will retire from the Swiss Print Award. From 2020, the award will be continued and modernized by five long-standing jury members in a joint management (picture below, with Jean-Paul Thalmann and Klaus-Peter Nicolai on the far left). 

From 2020, the new management team will comprise Marco Bieri, Alexander Colby, Anne-Friederike Heinrich, Beni Kiser and Michael Waldvogel, all well-known figures from the print and communications industry. 

As most of the previous jury members are taking on new tasks with the operational management, the Swiss Print Award jury will also be staffed with new creative minds. The management team is currently putting together the new jury and is already initiating other important changes. "The most important change will be that we will no longer 'only' award excellent Swiss print. We are looking for bridges that print builds into the future," the new organizers are quoted as saying. "But the irrepressible 'desire for print' will continue to be our driving force." (pd/hae)

Peter Grob Prize

• Printplus: Printlive customer magazine 

Category Printed Matters 

• Gold: Neidhart + Schön Group - Personal Christmas Mail 
• Silver: Fischer Paper - Kaskad meets CMYK 
• Bronze: Bubu - Communication Means Independent Paper Show 

Jean-Paul Thalmann, Klaus-Peter Nicolay (both former management), Alexander Colby, Michael Waldvogel, Beni Kiser, Anne-Friederike Heinrich, Marco Bieri (all new management) (from left).