The finalists are Neil Hyde of Rawson Graphics, Mat Rutherford of CCS Media Packaging, Tim Bright of Carter Holt Harvey, Tim Ryan of Blue Star Print Group, Dane Kasunic of CSI Print, and Tara Cotton of Westman Printing.

The winner will go on to compete for the national LIA/Heidelberg Graduate Awards, and will have the chance to win a major sponsorship to help them with further studies.

The Awards, sponsored by Heidelberg since their inception, will be held at the Sydney Rowing Club in Abbotsford.

The keynote speaker at the NSW LIA/Heidelberg Graduate Awards dinner will be Gary Redman (pictured), who trained as an offset printer at a young age, but 30 years later travelled to Atlanta to receive the international NASA Award for his futuristic design of aircraft. Redman will tell his extraordinary story and discuss the NASA Awards during his presentation.

For more information and to book, please contact Lima Lole on (02) 8789 7300.

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