Andy Wilson, MD of PressOn and Tristan Harrold , Production Manager at PressOn were at FESPA 2015 in Cologne, Germany to collect the two international awards. A double celebration!
We won the coveted FESPA Gold Award 2015 on the 19th May for the best International Out of Home Campaign for the Dazzle Ship project. The category is judged on technical excellence in print and complexity and impact of the finished project. Entries from across the globe represent the very finest examples of print, finishing and installation.
Later in the evening we also won the People’s Choice Award. This is an extremely prestigious award at FESPA that is voted for by the general public. We were stunned and honoured to have been awarded this. The Dazzle Ship was a monumental project in terms of print but more than this, what it represented touched the heart’s of many people.
You can watch the stunning time lapse footage of the installation here.
The Dazzle Ship project involved wrapping an ex-Navy ship, HMS President in dazzle print vinyl to commemorate the centenary of World War 1. The project was extremely complex in terms of artwork and installation. A 3D architectural scan of the hull was needed to enable PressOn to manipulate the artist’s artwork successfully. Each side of the hull required 96 individual panels and vinyl totaling over 2,000 sq m.
Vinyl was installed from a vessel in the busy waterway of the Thames, circling HMS President in rising and falling tides. Our installation teams worked at height whilst harnessed on the higher sections of the ship’s hull also.
