Judges & Tips
2011 Judges
Adam Todd
Adam comes from a long family history of print. His father and uncle have been successful printers for over 50 years.
After completing his apprenticeship (operating both Web and Sheetfed Offset), Adam ventured to the UK where he worked as Print Trouble shooter for a large pharmaceutical printer in both England and Ireland, before returning to Australia.
An active member of Industry associations Adam is a Past President of Junior Printing Executive, PICA NSW Judge, Board member of the National Print Awards committee.
Adam is married with two young girls and is currently employed by Fuji Xerox as a National Strategic Account Manager- Graphic Communications.
Chris Doyle
Branding and advertising campaigns by Sydney-based designer Christopher Doyle have been recognised by D&AD, AWARD, AGDA, One Show and Cannes. His stated reason for being a designer is ‘so I can be part of change'.
His work has been featured on blogs around the world, been used as the basis for education material in Europe and the United States and formed part of a feature article for UK magazine Creative Review. In 2009 he was named among Design Quarterly's ‘Top Ten Faces and Forces of Design'.
Christopher also happens to be the guy who, a few years ago, found a piece of Nutri-Grain that looked like E.T. and sold it on eBay for a ridiculous amount of money. True story.
Chris is currently design director at Interbrand, Sydney.
David Heacock
David is a highly regarded User Experience Architect with a broad career spanning the disciplines of Pre-sales Engineering, Web Application Solution Architecture, User Experience Design, Information Architecture and Web Development.
His design acumen and skilful use of digital technologies have seen his him win numerous Internet awards and pioneer the web industry in Canberra. As a manager, he has led teams of developers, designers, account managers and business development managers during his fourteen years in the industry.
Over the past fifteen years he has been responsible for the development of hundreds of websites and web applications.
He is currently Lead Interaction Designer at Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
Gillian Worrall
Gillian Worrall is a designer of clever, quirky greeting cards. No fluffy ducks or cupcakes in sight. Promise. Okay, ONE cupcake. One.
She has been designing professionally for over twenty years and has worked in design studios in the public and private sector as both an employee and freelancer.
In addition to her own work, Gillian often works cooperatively with larger organisations to assist in the completion of a wide range of projects. She works either as a designer or production manager, often both at once.
Gillian has been on the judging panel of the Page Awards since 2009.
Mark Holland
Few people know as much about the technical side of paper and printing than Mark Holland.
As resident Technical Service Manager/Guru for Spicers Paper, he is the guy to ask.
His knowledge of paper and the printing process brings a technical professionalism to the awards judging panel.
Mark has been part of the Page awards for the last 10 years.
Simon Trytell
Digital media and print technologies specialist Simon Trytell is inkjet business development manager for EFI Australia.
He is responsible for sales development in Australia and New Zealand.
With 20+ years experience in the printing industry with leading companies such as Konica Minolta, Canon and Océ, Simon has a broad knowledge and understanding of the printing industry.
He enjoys the constantly evolving world of digital printing and working with printers to realise the benefits that the latest inkjet technology can deliver.
Tips on your submission
| Most important note: The context in which the award is judged is a big part of your submission. 2010 winning entries excelled in both printed or online product, and, the written submission accompanying the entry. The Brief, Solution and Outcome are VERY important to the judeges. |
The PAGE award judging panel have put together a list of tips and judging criteria for your submissions and categories.
- Download a nomination form here [PDF] or here as a [WORD DOC]
- Get your entries into Dacre at Spicers in Fyshwick
ATTN: Dacre
8 Albany St
Fyshwick, ACT 2609
(02) 6280 7811
- Start early
(entries will be accepted until COB of closing date) - Choose only your best work
- Prepare a small paragraph for each entry (the more detail the better)
It may be useful to outline the entry as follows:
- Brief/Problem
The clients brief, requirements or purpose of the entry. - Solution
How the entry addressed the clients criteria both visually and technically to the benefit of the end product. Was there innovation or collaboration? - Outcome
What impact did the entry have for the client and/or their customers.
- Brief/Problem
- Use 1 nomination form for each entry
(if for example 1 entry form is used for 3 different printed products 1 really good entry may be disadvantaged by 2 average entries as the 3 different products are judged as 1) - Submit actual printed (and only the most pristine) samples.
Judges are assessing design and print excellence equally.
Where a printed sample is unavailable (i.e. large format printing), technical information and photographs must be submitted. - Submit live URL's. Projects must be accessible online where possible. It will be assessed as a holistic user experience.
Product related categories
Categories 1-12
For product related categories the judges place the major emphasis on the final quality of the product, its conformity with extremely high technical standards and its use of design to visually communicate.
Specifically the judges look for:
Customer focus
- Development
- Response
- Interpretation of brief
Design
- Typography
- Layout
- Colour
- Use and selection of media elements
- Paper selection
Technical new media
- Image resolution choice and quality
- Media elements
- Usability
- Accessibility
- Download times
- Navigation techniques
Technical digitally printed products
- Image resolution, colour correction, grey balance, gradation and quality
- Image banding in vignettes
- Consistency of colour across the print (especially in solids), and in colour panels (eg header) repeated within a publication.
- Lack of debris or imperfections (scratches, scuffing or other marks)
- Perfect dot reproduction
- Absence of digital printing operation faults
In addition production and/or in line print finishing faults such as poor guillotining, uneven binding, incorrect page order, or damage during collation are checked.
Technical printed products
- Image resolution, colour correction, grey balance, gradation and quality
- Perfect register(by far the most common failing)
- Consistency of colour across the print (especially in solids)
- Lack of debris or imperfections (hickeys, scratches, scuffing or other marks)
- Perfect dot reproduction (no slur, doubling or hollow dots)
- Absence of printing operation faults, such as damper marks, scum or tinting
- In addition production faults such as poor guillotining, uneven binding, incorrect page order, or damage during collation are checked, as these aspects may come into play when two or more entries are of equal excellence as far as print is concerned, and separation is necessary.
Commercial
Has the final product met requirements of customer/audience/end user.
Innovation
Evidence of innovative production techniques/collaboration.
Non product related categories
Categories 13-14
- Young achiever award
- Service to Industry award
The judges make their decision by comparing the content of the written nomination to the award criteria.
For the categories related to personal achievement judges look for:
- Background (qualifications and experience)
- Achievement (description of type and level of achievement)
- Other (Interests, other contributions to community etc.)