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The FESPA Awards, presented during FESPA Global Print Expo, presented three Gold awards to UK entrants in the print and signage industries
Two UK signage companies are among the winners of this year’s FESPA Awards, which highlights achievements in the speciality print and signage industries.
The awards, which were announced during this year’s FESPA Global Print Expo in Berlin, saw 278 entries from over 30 countries competing for prizes.
Shortlisted entries to the awards were displayed in the south entrance of the Messe Berlin exhibition space throughout FESPA Global Print Expo 2025, which ran from May 6th to 9th.
Categories for this year’s FESPA Awards included Display and Packaging on Paper & Board, Printed Garments, Roll-to-roll Printed Textiles, and Wrapping.
Among the winners was Watford-based commercial printer, Stylographics (Stylo), which won gold in two separate categories, namely Non-Printed Signage and Glass, Ceramic, Metal, and Wood Products.
Stylo received the Non-Printed Signage and Glass award for its creative out-of-home (OOH) campaign for Vodafone made during the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
Stylo’s campaign included scaled-up mock-ups of a tennis racket and a grass tennis court, with the slogan ‘Wimbledon’s Network’ added as flat cut acrylic lettering.
The Glass, Ceramic, Metal, and Wood Products award was presented for an interior installation themed around the movie Barbie, complete with pink wall graphics and an illuminated heart-shaped centrepiece.
Another UK winner of the FESPA Awards was Imageco, which received the Gold prize in the Display and Packaging on Paper & Plastic category. The Leeds based sign and design services company won the award for a retail display at a Dr Martens store themed around the Netflix mystery series –Wednesday.
For the campaign, which commemorated the launch of a limited-edition shoe collection designed around Wednesday, Dr Martens tasked Imageco with transforming its Carnaby London location to resemble a spooky set on the show.
Among the graphics and signage displays, the installation included a ‘spiderweb’ window display with layered effects created by multi-pass printing on a swissQprint Nyala 4 flatbed printer.
The full list of this year’s winners is available on the FESPA Awards website.
