Body of Work - a division of North Sydney design & print agency Armstrong - has won two wide format awards at this week’s Printing United Expo in Las Vegas for its "breathtaking" 3D wall mural project titled Explosive – printed on a Roland DG IU-1000F flatbed UV printer.
"Explosive" by Body of Work
Explosive won the 2022 Premier Print Award for Printed Product of the Year - Wide Format Inkjet Printing – as well as the Best of Category award for Poster/Fine Art - Wide Format Inkjet Printing.
“This piece has excellent fine lines in the hair, overall texture, and the use of the gold is impressive,” said the judges for the Printed Product of the Year award. “We are impressed with the realistic features like the well-defined beads, the coins and the flesh tones in the body. There is eye catching contrast and sharpness in this piece. Very good edge definition against a flawless black background.”
The Judges’ comments for Best of Category included: “Breathtaking use of depth and texture. Excellent execution. Beautiful fine details.”
Body of Work is a division of photography, video and website design agency Armstrong Studio, established by photographer Bob Armstrong.
In its entry description, Body of Work said:
“This 3d Mural features a system that is unique to Body of Work. It is so intricate it takes a week to print and requires perfect registration of clear images and final image. As it is insured for $A25,000, we would like it returned after use."
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| Bob Armstrong, founder Armstrong Studio |
Prepress: There are 16 layers of intricate masking in perfect registration with the final image
Prepress Equipment: Apple Mac
Printing Presswork: Sixteen layers of varnish are applied before the final image all - in perfect registration.
Printing Presswork Equipment: Roland IU-1000F
Postpress/Finishing: The weight of the layers of varnish is so much it required a stable aluminium substrate
Paper/Substrate: Aluminium substrate.
“We are extremely proud of the amazing projects produced by this year’s award-winning Roland DG customers,” said Roland DGA president and CEO Andrew Oransky.
“The talent and creativity of these sign and graphics professionals, as well as their ability to use the advanced capabilities of our wide-format printers in unique ways, never ceases to amaze us. We congratulate them on their achievements and look forward to seeing more of their incredible work.”
The Premier Print Awards represent all areas of print production, including screen, offset, digital, wide-format, flexographic, gravure, and more. This year’s competition recognized the projects of sign and display shops, commercial printers, package printers/converters, in-plants, trade binderies/finishers, graphic designers, and students with just 10 winners selected in wide-format categories.
To view the complete list of 2022 PRINTING United Alliance Premier PRINT Award winners, visit https://premierprint.printing.org/winners
