Judgement Day: Jury says print is sleeker, prettier and more powerful
The stage is set at The Leela, Mumbai, for PrintWeek India's fifth edition Awards Jury Day
Print experts, print buyers, brand owners and design experts formed the 40-member jury panel
The Printonomics: 113 participating companies, 25 categories, more than 1,200 print samples
Print veterans, Kiran Prayagi and Purnendu Sen (centre), exchange "print gyaan"
Alpana Parida of D Y Works and Girish Shukla of Maximstyles confabulate about brochures and catalogues; both categories sponsored by AGS
(l-r): Hemant Randive of Draftfcb + Ulka and Purshottam Joshi of Taproot India look at print perfection in digital a category sponsored by Canon
In a flock: Jury members discussed (and occasionally read) books; a category which was sponsored by Welbound Worldwide
Labeling it right! An exciting category sponsored by Epson who are hosting an exciting roadshow on 5 September in New Delhi
Khushnum Ichhaporia, Kotak Mahindra Bank analyses an award sample
A second time judge at the PWI Awards, Geetanjali Bhattacharji of Spatial Access
Flight of print imagination with Fine Art; a category sponsored by Sona
Madan Mohapatra of Future Group looks at a Point-of-Purchase entry; newer approaches to visual merchandising
Books are special: 31 print companies submitted entries for the Book Printer category
Perfect bound book, paperbacks and hard-case books. Also PUR books; a category sponsored by Henkel
Out-of-the-box! An entry in the innovative segment; a category sponsored by ITC Paperboards and Speciality
Vishakha Singh of Aurora Comms, reads the fine print
A fine-art aficionado, Narendra Yadav of Lowe-Lintas, savours print
Some of the best work on display from the $24.6 billion-worth industry in packaging converter segment; a category sponsored by Bobst India
Amol Paranjape of JWT
Poster palace: Screen-printed and digitally printed posters on display
Manas Athanikar, Parle Agro
Shivkumar Mani, Steel Mart India
Men at work: the jury members teamed up to pick the best piece of print
Two dadas of print design: Sridhar Kondiparthi a.k.a. Pops of Leo Burnett and Alpana Parida
Girish Masand, art editor for Stuff India and What Hi-Fi magazines
Lupin Pharma's Sheetal Dandekar
Pops picks his favourite: the jury members highlighted print power with their favourite sample
Kiran Prayagi pours praises for this print sample
Ashwini Deshpande's pick-of-the-day. Deshpande is co-founder of Elephant design
Screen Printer of the Year category saw 15 companies send in their best works; a category sponsored by Skyscreen
Great point-of-purchase samples sells a brand’s promise — and the judges could relate to that
Creative Repro saw jobs which were full of labyrinths — and work which radiates imagination far beyond the real
Purnendu Sen looking at his first love: A newspaper
Saurav Roy of Idea Spice Design
Mohit Choche of HH Global glances through the Reports and Accounts Printer category, which received six entries, in contrast to the 36 received the previous year
Vikram Bawa, a photographer and a print professional
PrintWeek India Awards and the 40 jury members
Judgement Day: Jury says print is sleeker, prettier and more powerful
More than 1,200 samples were scrutinised at the fifth edition of PrintWeek India Awards. The 40-member jury inspected the samples sent by 113 leading print companies from all over India. A sneak-peak.