"Print Creativity Award": Here are the Winners
The "Print Creativity Award" was conferred for the
first time ever this year. Heidelberg online presents the four
winners and their creations.
Young designers from almost 40 countries with around 1,250 works applied for the "Print Creativity Award." The competition was organized by the Sternberg Foundation together with :output, a non-profit organization for the promotion of young designers. Submissions were expected to be unconventional concepts in the use of print, for example a combination of different techniques and media or the use of unusual materials and visual language.
First Prize: Gisela Noack's Bookbinding Workshops Poster
By Tomas Celizna and Daniel Harding, Yale University School of Art
The poster was created in a bookbinding workshop held by Professor Gisela Noack at Yale University and is made up of four stacks of paper. The bound and perforated stacks vary in typography and color. The viewer is encouraged to tear off individual sheets, which results in the poster's design constantly changing.
Jury's Evaluation:
Innovative use of static typographic information. The diversity of combinations makes the poster an interactive animation.
Young designers from almost 40 countries with around 1,250 works applied for the "Print Creativity Award." The competition was organized by the Sternberg Foundation together with :output, a non-profit organization for the promotion of young designers. Submissions were expected to be unconventional concepts in the use of print, for example a combination of different techniques and media or the use of unusual materials and visual language.
First Prize: Gisela Noack's Bookbinding Workshops Poster
By Tomas Celizna and Daniel Harding, Yale University School of Art
The poster was created in a bookbinding workshop held by Professor Gisela Noack at Yale University and is made up of four stacks of paper. The bound and perforated stacks vary in typography and color. The viewer is encouraged to tear off individual sheets, which results in the poster's design constantly changing.
Jury's Evaluation:
Innovative use of static typographic information. The diversity of combinations makes the poster an interactive animation.
Other Outstanding Works
Visual Cut Bulgaria
By Andrean Nechev, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences
The book presents 23 Bulgarian communication designers whose work and words reflect Bulgaria's visual language. Each designer created a 16-page spread in the book. The various sheets are arranged in random order when the book is bound, thus producing different covers each time.
Jury's Evaluation:
The principle of non-hierarchical content is supported by the random binding order. The result is an innovative use of quotations from the Bulgarian cultural scene which also serve as advertising space for the book.
Visual Cut Bulgaria
By Andrean Nechev, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences
The book presents 23 Bulgarian communication designers whose work and words reflect Bulgaria's visual language. Each designer created a 16-page spread in the book. The various sheets are arranged in random order when the book is bound, thus producing different covers each time.
Jury's Evaluation:
The principle of non-hierarchical content is supported by the random binding order. The result is an innovative use of quotations from the Bulgarian cultural scene which also serve as advertising space for the book.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By Christopher Jung and Tobias Wenig, Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts
The German and English versions of the book are designed as twin volumes. The pictures stem from a variety of sources, such as medical literature, or reproductions of examples of early photography. The design plays with the idea of mirror images, for example black typography on white paper and white typography on black paper.
Jury's Evaluation:
In both books the printing techniques correspond excellently with their content. The concepts of hiding and concealment are both echoed in the name "Hyde" and also form the main theme in the design. This was accomplished with the use of scratch card coating, scratch techniques and screening.
By Christopher Jung and Tobias Wenig, Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts
The German and English versions of the book are designed as twin volumes. The pictures stem from a variety of sources, such as medical literature, or reproductions of examples of early photography. The design plays with the idea of mirror images, for example black typography on white paper and white typography on black paper.
Jury's Evaluation:
In both books the printing techniques correspond excellently with their content. The concepts of hiding and concealment are both echoed in the name "Hyde" and also form the main theme in the design. This was accomplished with the use of scratch card coating, scratch techniques and screening.
Planting Wild Flower Meadows - A Packaging Concept for
Flower Seeds
By Valerie Rapp, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
The poster in format DIN A0 is designed on both the front and back. It includes 83 separate small bags of seeds which can be planted together with the packaging.
Jury's Evaluation:
Successful combination of packaging concept and poster, making the poster interactive.
References
The Dr. Hubert H. A. Sternberg Foundation is named after the former Chairman of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Dr. Hubert H. A. Sternberg. It fosters apprentices, students and young employees in the print and paper technology industries as well as in printing press engineering.
:output is a non-profit organization with its headquarters in Amsterdam that promotes young designers and provides an international platform for exchanging ideas within the realm of design.
By Valerie Rapp, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
The poster in format DIN A0 is designed on both the front and back. It includes 83 separate small bags of seeds which can be planted together with the packaging.
Jury's Evaluation:
Successful combination of packaging concept and poster, making the poster interactive.
References
The Dr. Hubert H. A. Sternberg Foundation is named after the former Chairman of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Dr. Hubert H. A. Sternberg. It fosters apprentices, students and young employees in the print and paper technology industries as well as in printing press engineering.
:output is a non-profit organization with its headquarters in Amsterdam that promotes young designers and provides an international platform for exchanging ideas within the realm of design.
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