There are just 4 weeks to go until entries close for the ASGA - Currie Group 2024 National Sign & Graphics Awards - so now's the time to identify your best work, get your information together, and jump online to enter!
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The industry's premier accolades, the Awards recognise the achievement of excellence across a wide range of signage, display, wide-format print and related products. Work eligible this year must have been completed between Tuesday 8th March 2022 and Friday 31st May 2024.
There are 25 categories and it's worth reviewing them to chose the right one/s to enter. They are:
1. DIGITAL MEDIA (LED & LCD)
This award covers signs that successfully integrate digital media such as LED or LCD or interactive
mechanisms into a total signage solution. Entries will be indoor and outdoor signs that have scheduling,
updating or content management capabilities. The ability of the signmaker to skilfully incorporate quality
digital componentry into a sign with particular attention to the quality of the design craftsmanship and finish
is important along with the “wow” factor to the viewer. The entry must show the variety of the digital
changes occurring in the sign. Signs may include pylon, directional, wayfinding, advertising and architectural
applications.
2. DIRECTIONAL & WAYFINDING SIGNS
This award assesses the overall directional or wayfinding signage project and may include proprietary or
non-proprietary signage systems or products, and signage can comprise any form.
3. ENGRAVED SIGNS
This award recognises the skill involved in producing engraved signs. The signs can be engraved using a
variety of methods including laser, rotary milling, acid etching or any other methods. There are no limits
around the selection of materials that can be used. Entries might include wayfinding, directories, name
plates, plaques, mimic panels, presentations and awards etc.
4. FABRICATION – GENERAL SIGNAGE
This award may include 3D fabricated letters or plinth signage in any material – any signate which requires
manual fabrication using any combination of componentry manufacture methods (CNC, moulded, welded,
3D print etc) and materials.
5. FABRICATION – SCULPTURAL
This award includes fabrication whose primary focus might not be signage but involves sculptural forms and
graphics in any material. It would include Public Art pieces placed in public places.
6. FABRICATION – LARGE PYLON & SKY SIGNS
This award includes pylon signs and sky signs and may include metals, plastics and timber, etc, manufactured
in-house.
NB: If any of the final signage has been outsourced (eg installation), it must be noted in your entry.
7. ILLUMINATION – LEDs
This award covers the design and application of LED technology in our industry scope. Entries must be
accompanied by day and night photographs.
8. ILLUMINATION – NEON
This award covers applications of neon glass to illuminate signage or to create special lighting effects and
may include signage on walls, advertising signs, shopfronts, skysigns, architectural applications etc. Entries
must be accompanied by day and night photographs.
9. INSTALLATION
The skill and difficulty of installation projects: this could be in-house or a submission by the sub-contractor. If
a sub-contractor has done the install, permission must have been obtained from the contracted principal
company. Companies must describe the work that was performed by their staff and the work which was
performed by sub-contractors.
10. LARGE FORMAT DIGITAL PRINT
This award recognises and acknowledges the skill level based on accurately replicating the artwork provided
including the colouring, its “wow” factor and the strategic placement on a site to achieve maximum impact.
11. ORIGINAL IN-HOUSE DESIGN CONCEPT
This award assesses the fundamental design aspects of a sign or display where the design concept was
developed in-house, irrespective of whether the sign or display was manufactured in-house or contracted
out to a third party.
12. PRINTED FABRICS & TEXTILES/T-SHIRTS & GARMENTS
This category will cover printed textiles and fabrics for soft signage, banners and flags, furnishings printed
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using direct to garment, sublimation. It will include T-shirts and garments printed through screen printing,
transfers and embroidery.
13. RETAIL SIGN PACKAGE – TOTAL BUILDING/SHOP FIT OUT
This award will recognise the skills involved in the design, manufacture and installation of the total signage
package of a building or retail outlet. This can include the entire graphics package, even down to the
stationery.
14. ROUTER OUTPUT
Entries for this award need to be produced on a router and can be any sign, logo, image or output produced
(excluding Laser Engraving see Category 3) where a sign, graphic or image is the main subject.
15. SMALL SIGN BUSINESS AWARD
This award is open to businesses of five or fewer staff. It recognises small businesses which consistently turn
out high quality work of any type of signage. Pictures should be included of work done between 8 March
2022 and COB 31 May 2024, which shows flair, expertise and quality workmanship (at least four projects).
Provide a brief description of your business (how long trading, how many employees, type of services
offered – eg design, manufacture, installation etc) along with some information on the difficulties overcome
in the projects that you have showcased.
16. TRADITIONAL SIGNCRAFT SKILLS/AIRBRUSHING OR HANDPAINTED MURALS
This award recognises and acknowledges the traditional hand skills still being practised in our industry today
and may include hand lettering, mask and spray, signwriting, sandblasting, screen printing, gilding, glue
chipping etc. Signage may include vehicles, walls, shopfronts, etc.
17. VEHICLE WRAPS – FULL VEHICLE
This award recognises and encourages the specific skill required to design and apply signage known as
“vehicle body wraps”. Vehicles may include cars, vans, buses, boats, trucks and bikes.
18. VINYL
This award comprises signage predominantly made from “off the shelf” adhesive vinyls and may include
signs on walls, vehicles, banners, shopfronts, stickers, decals and general signage. Vehicles may include cars,
vans, buses, boats, trucks and bikes. It will include any design incorporating digital printed graphics and
direct lettering.
19. TRAINING INNOVATION AWARD
This award recognises outstanding innovation by Registered Training Organisations in delivering training
outcomes to the signage industry.
20. YOUNG STAR AWARDS
This category will cover any outstanding work done across all the categories by those in our training centres,
or working in sign companies, in whatever year of their training.
21. INNOVATION AWARD
This award is open to both sign businesses and suppliers. It recognises businesses that work at producing
signage, equipment or products that are innovative or use emerging technologies. The sign industry is ever
evolving and new technologies are coming on line all the time. Maybe you have produced a cutting-edge sign
using a 3D printer, or maybe you are a supplier and you have just brought an innovative new 3D printer to
the sign market that is different from others. Maybe you developed some software to enable sign companies
to better automate their processes, or you have a cutting edge Interactive Digital Display using Big Data. This
award is to recognise those that drive our industry forward and provide a unique way to showcase their new
products to ASGA members.
22. SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
This category will have one outright winner. Entries will be assessed on the basis of a business’ approach to
reducing its carbon footprint and integrating environmentally friendly practices within their business model.
Highlight how your business may have approached any of the following in the last two years up to 31 May
2024: the use of alternative energy sources, material selection and sourcing, waste management, recycling
processes and social sustainability involving local staff recruitment and upskilling, as well as the
implementation of policies that incorporate environmentally friendly processes.
23. PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
This award is separate from the main award categories in that it cannot be entered directly. All entries will
be showcased online and judged by the community from Wednesday 12 June to Monday 1 July 2024. An
entry which does not win in its original category or categories is still eligible to win this award.
24. PROJECT MANAGEMENT AWARD
This award covers the organisation of design, manufacture, delivery and installation of signage projects. Each
component can be delivered by contractors. The key is the nominated applicant has managed the signage
project from start to finish, either directly delivering the services in-house or alternatively outsourcing any of
the components required. If works have been outsourced, permission must be provided by the contractor.
25. “BEST IN THE SHOW” AWARD
The Judges have been asked to vote on the entry they consider to be the most outstanding of all the entrie
Before you enter, check the Awards Categories to make sure you are entering your job in the most suitable category, and check the Terms & Conditions of entry.
Entries close at 5pm on Friday 7th June 2024, so don't delay - gather the information and photos of your best work, and click below to enter now.
