The Tasmanian Printing Industries Craftsmanship Awards (PICA), held in Hobart earlier this year resulted in awards for the Harris Print Pty Ltd, a division of Rural Press Printing. Printers of Local Government FOCUS and a range of publications for various local Councils, Harris Print took out three awards for excellence in print and design.
They include:
- Gold PICA award for Printing – The April 8 edition of the Australian Jewish News Melbourne newspaper, a 40 page tabloid printed on its MAN Uniset 60 press on 52gsm Norstar.
- Gold PICA award for Graphic Design – The Collected Souls booklet is the catalogue that accompanied Lisa Garland’s photography exhibition held at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery. It is made up of a collection of tear out postcards.
- Silver PICA award for Graphic Design – The Print Out catalogue accompanied the Burnie Regional Art Gallery’s own print collection exhibition.
The gold design award was presented to Emma Herbert who designed two of the winning entries for the Burnie Regional Art Gallery.
Burnie City Council’s Regional Art Gallery Director, Belinda Wright, said that working with Harris Print over the past 18 months has resulted in new and different ways of producing materials to get the message out to the community.
“Working in partnership with the Gallery, Harris Print is very in tune with the type of things we are trying to do in the Gallery,” Belinda Wright said. “Emma Herbert has come up with new concepts, pushing the boundaries to produce high quality, informative materials that work extremely well.”
Manager Keith Dunham said that winning the design awards was particularly pleasing as it is rare for printers to win in this category against the big design studios.
“It is due recognition of Emma’s talent,” he said.
The annual awards have been held since 1981 with the objective of improving quality in print as well as creating more public awareness of the industries capabilities. Harris Print has consistently won at these awards since their inception.
