New Zealand print professionals recently gathered to celebrate industry excellence at the national Pride In Print Awards, held at the Cordis Hotel, Auckland.
This year’s gala print event was attended by well over 500 print industry members from all around the country, and was MC’d by New Zealand television and radio personality Jason Gunn.
Taking out the top accolade of the night, Avondale-based Studio Q/Laserfoil was named the Supreme Award winner for its four-piece Kaya and Brian Wedding Invite Suite.
Rounding out the rest of the night’s winners were:
Category winners
- Sign and Display Print: Hydroflow Rainbird FSDU (ABC Original Print)
- Print Industry Promotion: APC 2024 Christmas Wine Box (APC Innovate)
- Paper and Board Packaging: Snackachangi Presenter/PR Box (APC Innovate)
- Business Print: Mercury – Integrated Report 2024 (Blue Star Auckland Print & Packaging – Collard)
- Industry Development and Creativity: One NZ Advent Calendars (Blue Star Auckland Display & Distribution)
- Structural Design Packaging: Panadol Liquid Caps (Blue Star Auckland Display & Distribution)
- Promotional Print: Art of Michelle Bellamy (easy2C Calendars and Promotional Products)
- Flexible Packaging: Quack A Duck Peking Spiced Whole Duck (Sealed Air Hamilton)
- Packaging All Other Materials: Whittaker's Dark Ghana 50 gram Chunk (Lamprint Packaging Holdings)
- Specialty Products: Kaya and Brian Wedding Invite Suite (Studio Q/Laserfoil)
- Labels: Fresh n Fruity Greek Raspberry 1kg Yoghurt (Logan Print)
- Publications Newspapers: The Weekend Sun Issue 1233 (NZME Ellerslie Print)
- Publications Books: Te Ara Hohou Rongo|The Path to Reconciliation (Wakefields Digital)
- Print Finishing: Te Ara Hohou Rongo|The Path to Reconciliation (Wakefields Digital)
Process winners
- Sheetfed Offset: The Historic Architecture in Korea (Brebner Print)
- Inkjet: Pressed Flowers (Caxton)
- Screen: Zhu Ohmu x Kate Sylvester Hemp Bag (Colour Evolution)
- Digital: Welcome to My Brain Card Game (Eamar Innovative Solutions)
- Gravure: Boring Oat Milk Barista (Gravure Packaging)
- Flexographic: Quack A Duck Peking Spiced Whole Duck (Sealed Air Hamilton)
- Coldset: The Waikato Times Your Weekend 12 October 2024 (Stuff – Petone)
- Heatset: Super Liquor (Webstar)
- Letterpress: Casa de Campo (Windmill Press)