World Label Award winners Collotype Labels Griffith and Ultra Labels have cleaned up at the LATMA Conference and Label Awards, winning half the available gold medals with three each.
The awards ceremony in Kiama on the NSW south coast featured work from several other international award winners, showcasing the depth and quality of Australian label printing.
Collotype Labels Griffith scored three gold awards in the national competition for its offset and combination printing labels in the wine and spirits space. Its St Leonards Wahgunyah label, rich with foiling and embossing techniques, took out the best in show – to follow up its gold World Label Award.
Ultra Labels dominated the digital printing categories, with three gold wins for a skincare label and two wine labels. Its Ocean View Estate 2012 Luscious Harvest also won gold in the World Label Awards.
Multi-Color QLD was another standout with its World Label-winning ice cream label. Receiving gold awards in the national competition and honourable mentions overseas – Wedderburn Labels showed off a stained-glass design for its Mintaro label and Labelworld WA found recognition for its Wisemate Caesar Salad Dressing ensemble.
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Competition chairman Peter Sage says he is pleased to see Australian labellers showing the rest of the world what they’re made of.
“In spite of our small numbers here in Australia, we do punch above our weight and win over the odds,” he says.
LATMA president Allan Dabscheck says: “I am proud to say that our LATMA members always manage to produce some of the best labels in the world; as our current awards attest – three gold and two honourable mentions in the 2013 World Label Awards.”
Sage, who has organised the awards since the first competition in 1991, was inducted into the LATMA Hall of Fame on the night to much applause. Andrew Maxwell will now assist Sage with future events.
Having enjoyed much success at the last World Label Awards, LATMA is keen for a repeat for its members this time around, and so this year will send out cartons to labellers to remind them to collect their best work in readiness for the national competition.
Sage says this will give operators on the shop floor, as well as managers, the chance to put forward their work for consideration, so each company can send the best of their best work, and keep samples in mint condition for judging.
This year’s gold label winners are:
• Aser Labels – Happy & Healthy Birdseed (desktop digital printing)
• Collotype Labels Griffith – The Visionary (offset, wine and spirits), Crooked Horse (offset, wine and spirits), St Leonards Wahgunyah (combination printing, wine and spirits)
• Impresstik – Purity Natural Baby Care Range (letterpress colour process)
• Labelworld WA – Wisemate Caesar Salad Dressing (offset, colour process)
• Multi-Color QLD – Ministry of Ice Cream (flexo)
• Wedderburn Labels – Mintaro (flexo, wine and spirits)
• Studio Labels – Fowles Wine Family Collection (combination printing, wine and spirits)
• Ultra Labels – Eco Natural Skincare (digital printing), Ocean View Estates 2012 Luscious Harvest (digital printing, wine and spirits), Clear Water Creek 2011 Sauvignon Blanc (digital printing, wine and spirits)
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