Swiss Print Award 2018

After preliminary judging, 24 works made it to the final round and thus to the shortlist for the award winners in the categories commercial printing, publications and packaging. The winners in the individual categories:

Accents

Gold: Fontana Print AG (Pregassona), "Beauty of Africa" calendarSilver: Wolfau Druck AG (Weinfelden), cookbook "KunstKochPhilosophiePoesieBuch" (ArtCookingPhilosophyPoetryBook)Bronze: Baumgartner & Annaheim Gestaltung (Zurich), art book "Beneath The Skin

Packages

Gold: Fratelli Roda SA (Tavern), "La Belle Epoque" Collection

Desire for print

In his laudatory speech, Klaus-Peter Nicolay, Editor-in-Chief of "Druckmarkt Schweiz," paid tribute on behalf of the jury to the winners of the awards and the large number of entries. Even the works that did not win awards were not inadequate printed matter, but cleanly produced works that perhaps only lacked a sparkling idea, a bit of originality or the coherence of the overall appearance beyond today's usual standard, said Nicolay.Printed matter is as appealing, eventful, transformable, diverse and of a high quality as no other medium. Print offers orientation, appreciation, individuality, exclusivity, sustainability, loyalty, passion, inspiration and entertainment. In short, print is a permanent fixture in the media mix and appeals to all the senses as an impulse generator for all types of communication. Agencies, publishers, printers, finishers and bookbinders demonstrated this with their imaginative print products at the "Swiss Print Award 2018" competition. These vividly demonstrate how attractive printed paper can be - and thus "whet the appetite for print".