Tasmania’s Diemen Awards, now in its eighth year, were recently held with Hobart’s Focal Printing taking out the Media Super Grand Diemen Award for Print with Craig Pearce of Flying Colours awarded a special recognition for services to Tasmania’s printing industry.
The Diemen Awards, supported by Media Super, celebrate excellence in the Tasmanian creative and craft industries and are made up of four major categories: Advertising/Communications, Digital, Design and Print.
Diemen Awards co-chair Adam Glover, of Mercury Walch, says the Diemen Awards are all about recognising and nurturing creative talent in Tasmania, while also bridging the connections between the four key creative disciplines – Advertising/Communications, Digital, Design and Print.
“A committee of eight people from all corners of the Advertising, Design, Digital and Print industries volunteer to organise the entire event so that Tasmanian companies and their work can be celebrated and recognised,” Glover said.
Kirsten Taylor, creative director at Taylor’d Press, was among the judges from around Australia who took part.
“It was such a fantastic celebration of industry and I was so grateful to be a part of this fantastic event,” Taylor said.
In this year’s awards, Hobart’s Focal Printing took out the Grand Diemen Award for print with its ‘Paradise Lost’ book (offset) entry which it printed for Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG). Mercury Walch took out the other print categories.
Craig Pearce, of Flying Colours, was also presented with a special award for services to the Tasmanian print industry.
In the design category there was a tie, down to the decimal point with Demelza Rafferty for ‘Signature Dish’ and Mona for ‘Rock Bottom ‘Rum’ tying for the Media Super Grand Diemen for Design.
The Media Super Grand Diemen for Digital was won by The20 for its ‘Be Tasmanian Online Video’ entry.
The Media Super Grand Diemen for Advertising and Communications went to MTS Films for its Matthew Scott entry.
For more information about the Diemen Awards, click here.
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