Entries open next month for the 2016 Media Super National Print Awards, which will feature three new categories and a student award.
“Success at the National Print Awards is a good way to demonstrate to your clientele that you not only ‘talk the talk’ but ‘walk the walk’,” says NPA chair Susan Heaney. “In the face of ever increasing competition, it’s a remarkably effective way to demonstrate that your print meets the highest standards and will therefore help maximise the effectiveness of your clients’ campaigns and marketing strategies.
“For well over 30 years, the National Print Awards has demonstrated that Australian printers are equal to or better than their counterparts anywhere in the world,” she said. “With Australia at the forefront of innovative approaches and new print technologies, the quest for quality continues – and now it is time for designers, creatives, agencies and printers across the country to prepare for the 2016 Awards competition.”
Entries will open mid-October and close on 29 January 2016, with judging held in the first week of February. Jobs printed any time from 1 January this year are eligible.
Entrants will need to submit two flawless copies of each entered job, which may be produced any time from 1 January, 2015 until 31 December, 2015. Selecting these as soon as possible after production and storing them in a safe and secure space so they can be easily accessed and prepared for entry is advisable, says Luke Wooldridge, who has once again agreed to chair the independent NPA Judging Panel.
The new categories are typography, illustration, corporate identity and print/digital campaigns, plus a student award focused on unpublished concepts or printed self-promotional work from design students.
“Now’s the time to start your planning so that you too can enter these important Awards and reap the rewards for your business,” says Heaney. “Don’t forget to mark Friday 20 May, 2016, in your diary so you can also join us in for the industry’s ‘Night of Nights’, the 2016 Media Super National Print Awards presentation dinner.”