It’s raining excellence at PrintWeek India Awards 2013 Jury Day

More than 1,200 samples received for the fifth edition of PrintWeek India Awards 2013 went under gruelling scrutiny of the 40-plus member jury at The Leela Hotel in Mumbai. In addition, for the first time, teaching staff from a print engineering college were also offered a sneak-peak at the Award process as they inspected the samples sent by 113 leading print companies of India. This helped the faculty to keep itself up-to-date about the latest and best in our country.

27 Aug 2013 | By PrintWeek India

Last year, PrintWeek India Awards saw an ensemble of 334 entries from 116 companies –which were judged by an enthusiastic 30-member jury, an independent panel drawn from a wide-spectrum of print buyers, professionals and designers.

The jury drawn from the full spectrum of print discipline comprising print buyers, professional and designers were be split into groups to sift through entries in 19 Quality Awards and six Performance Awards categories.

Alpana Parida of DY Works, said, "I think there are over a 110 printers who participaited, which is brilliant. "I have always believed that for a piece of print to come alive, there should be a convergence of design aesthetics and print capability in terms of human skills in calibre and use of technology."
 
Vishakha Singh of Aurora Comm, complemengts Parida's statement.  Commenting on a screen printing sample, which took a painstaking 40 days for completion, she said, "It's an outstanding piece of work. The samples in the Wide-format, Poster and Fine Art categories were outstanding. I can see print's capabilities improve to an extent that it is now getting closest to the original."

“We were amazed by the quality and diversity of the entries which were sent in last year. This year's entries even surpassed the standards set  by the participating companies last year. It was pleasing to note, many of the entrants showcased impressive work, which demonstrates the gamut of capabilities that is possible with print,”  said Noel D'cunha, deputy editor, PrintWeek India and the brainchild behind the Awards.

Eminent Jury for PrintWeek India Awards 2013
Alpana Parida, D Y Works Amol Paranjape, JWT Amruta Nemivant, art curator
Arvind Agarwal, AICL Ashwini Deshpande, Elephant Design Deepali Agarwal, Johnson & Johnson
Geetanjali Bhattacharji, Spatial Access Girish Masand, Stuff India Girish Shukla, Maximstyles
Hemant Randive, Draftfcb +Ulka Hitesh Shah, BBDO India Huzefa Kanorwala, Packaging Consultant
Khushnum Ichhaporia,Kotak Mahindra Bank Kiran Prayagi, GATE Madan Mohapatra, Future Group
Manas Athanikar, ParleAgro Mohit Choche, HH Global Mohit Sabnis, Bates CHI
Narendra Yadav, LoweLintas India Noel D'cunha, PrintWeek India Paulose Parakkadan, R-pacIndia
Pradeep Kumbhar, IDBI Federal Purnendu Sen, ex-technical director, Times of India group Purshottam Joshi, Taproot India
Raja Mohanty, IDC, IIT Rajnish Shirsat, Radikal Ramu Ramanathan,PrintWeek India
Richard Rodrigues, HH Global Saurav Roy, Idea Spice Design Saurkar Amit, Heinz India
Shailesh Surve, SBI General Shashank Phadke, Ergo India Shashi Sinha, LaqshyaGroup
Sheetal Dandekar, LupinPharma Shipra Shukla, Jungle Book Shivkumar Mani, Steel Mart India
Soma Roy, Marico India Sridhar Kondiparthi, Leo Burnett Vikram Bawa, photographer
Vishakha Singh, AuroraComms    

 

Extending their support towards Awards 2013 are AGS, Bobst, Canon, Daya, Epson, Henkel, ITC PSPD, Roland DG, Skyscreen, Sona Commercial, Vinsak and Welbound Worldwide, who have come onboard as the category sponsors; whereas Dupont, EFL, Galaxy Propac, Quadtech and TechNova have extended their support as the Award partners.

Apart from category and award partners, Sona Commercial is supporting the Awards as the paper partner while Kala Jyothi is the print partner.

The PrintWeek India Awards Night is on Wednesday, 2 October 2013 at the Grand Hyatt, Santacruz in Mumbai. On the Award night, an august line-up of big-name print VIPs will attend the evening. In the fifth edition of the Awards, besides applauding Performance Awards and Quality Awards winners, the room of 350 persons will also be celebrating print on Gandhi Jayanti.