Why do you like speciality printing/production? “Well, in packaging there are a lot of opportunities and the competition is quite big. The challenging part is to create something interesting that stands out from the crowd.”...
The Best Design Winners for the 2021 Golden Pin Design Award and Golden Pin Concept Design Award Have Been Announced — Taipei, Taiwan
The Golden Pin Design Award Ceremony has been held on 04 DEC 2021 in Taipei. The winners of the highest honors have been revealed at the ceremony. This year, the Golden Pin Design Award and Golden Pin Concept Design Award received nearly 8,000 entries in total from 28 countries around the globe, with many categories of designs in contention. After...
Nick Liefhebber — Utrecht, Netherlands
Why do you like screen-printing? “For me it’s the best way to create unique and cost-effective reproductions of my work. You can use special inks, print on a large scale, print on different materials such as paper, wood and textile, and you can experiment and print variations of the same work. Things that would cost a lot if you had...
ALAND — Alan Wong — Hong Kong
What attracts you to letterpress? “It combines old and new culture. It represents different generations of printing production and craftsmanship. And I do like the textures and colours created by the pressure. It is meticulous. The challenge I always find with it is printing on different papers. It doesn’t always turn out as I expect it to.”...
M22 Creative Studio — Paulo Ducarmo — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“The essence of good design work is found in the details. To highlight this we rely on some special printing techniques; in this case, I’m a big fan of spot UV, because it puts a focus on the details of the piece, especially if it is black. The biggest challenge is in finding a printing company that can do this...
The 2021 Golden Pin Design Award Unveils the theme “UPLOAD” for the Grand Ceremony! — Taipei, Taiwan — 04 DEC 2021
The 2021 Golden Pin Design Award Ceremony will be held in Taipei on 04 DEC 2021. This year’s award ceremony has been planned by renowned producer Isaac Chen, who has lead the production team behind the Taiwan’s Golden Melody Awards multiple times. The awards ceremony will be held at Taipei’s NEXT TV television studio, and the show will be streamed...
Regio Creative Studio — Bogotá, Colombia
“Letterpress makes you feel like a child in the middle of a room full of Legos. The letters are assembled and disassembled, you are filled with ink — hands, arms, head and heart. When you start working on this type of printing, time passes very quickly. It is a challenge for our heads that are used to approaching design from...
HUMAN — Alejandro Flores — Mexico City, Mexico
Favourite kind of print-making? “It would have to involve a production process that enhances the design solution and helps reduce the cost as well as being environmentally friendly. Reproduction and implementation are crucial parts of the design process. If it looks good on screen but is not replicable, it just doesn’t work. I think the biggest challenge is to always...
Kemalcan Başaran — Istanbul, Turkey
Kemalcan Başaran is interested in digital, spatial, editorial and identity design for branding and advertising....
Nini Sum — Shanghai, China
“Screen-printing is a medium that has the features of both human being and machine, it reproduces images in editions yet each one is different due to their hand-made nature. I especially love adding mono-printing effects into the printing process, such as spraying water onto the paper then printing on top, adding random colours onto the screen then pulling the squeegee;...
Annabel Lin & Chin Wen Hsu — Taipei, Taiwan
What do you like about risograph? “The most interesting thing about it is that every printing is somewhat different. It’s always a surprise to see the result and the eye-poppingly beautiful colours. The most challenging part is separating each colour into individual plates. Since we use a lot of colours and the illustrations we create are very complicated, lots of...
Little Giant — Matt Fletcher — Hamilton, Canada
“Silkscreen printing can be cost-effective and offers you a wide range of colours. I often use silkscreen printing when working on apparel and poster projects. The experimentation with silkscreen is endless, it’s definitely one of the pros of using this method.”...