Fedrigoni Top Award

The jury of the Fedrigoni Top Award – an international prize inspired by the desire to narrate all the ways paper can be transformed – announces the short list of winners.

Calico studio (Repubblica Ceca), carta da regalo stampata a mano Calico

Fedrigoni Top Award is an international prize – now at its ninth edition – inspired by the desire to narrate all the ways paper can be transformed and how this ductile and versatile material, thanks to the study and creativity of printers and designers, can become a book, a ticket, a game, a brochure or a package

The Fedrigoni Top Award seeks to reward inventiveness and creativity coming alive precisely with paper, by exhibiting and comparing projects from all over the world developed using Fedrigoni papers. The award is open to conventional and digital printing techniques and has five categories: Books, Corporate Publishing, Labels, Packaging and HP Indigo Digital Printing.

Originally launched as an in-house competition, in 2005 the Top Award was opened to the public: graphics and publishing companies are invited to enter their best projects and to take part in the selection process involving by an independent Jury that rewards the three best projects in each of the five categories. All winners will be featured in a major exhibition that is scheduled for this new edition in London, at the Stationer’s Hall on 12 March 2015.

Once again this year, the jury includes talents in the world of graphic design and publishing: Ginette Caron, Joost Grootens, Simon Esterson, Massimo Acanfora and Xavier Bas Baslé were welcomed to the historic head offices in Verona by Chiara Medioli, Fedrigoni Marketing Director, where they identified a short list of winners.

The shortlisted projects are: Brighten the Corners (United Kingdom), Symphony for a Beloved Sun – Anish Kapoor; The Shelf Company (France), Rapport d’activité 2012 du Cnap; Calico studio (Czech Republic), Calico hand-printed wrapping papers; Atelier Tout va bien (France), Une promenade – Harald Fernagu; Rorhof (Italy), Oasis Hotel; CORETI (Spain), 1991; Vrijdag Premium Printing B.V. (Netherlands), Marie Stella Maris; Ulrike Zeizel (Germany), Kräuterlikör Marienapotheke Wasserburg; éditions de l’Éclosoir (France), Chorographie d’un territoire littéraire; F E Burman (United Kingdom), Mini Boden Summer Catalogue; Nueve estudio (Spain), L’ermita beer; ELBSTERN Kreativagentur (Germany), DER WILDE; Deberlou (Spain), Sobrassada Unic; nju:comunicazione (Italy), Particolari di Maida; Paolo Palma – Metodo (Italy), Chilla – Zukhra; Sánchez / Lacasta (Spain), El Greco International Symposium 2014; Papelote (Czech Republic), Papelote diaries 2015; San Rocco magazine (Italy), Book of copies.