Antalis McNaughton is delighted have won ‘Best Bespoke Calendar 2011’ at the National Calendar Awards.
The judges thought that the calendar was ‘outstanding as it was so representative of the printing industry.’ It was delivered to around 7,000 printers in the UK and Ireland, and showed each month the milestones in the history of printed communications.
The calendar, which beat all other entries including the Pirelli 2011 calendar to win the award, was produced in conjunction with Leicester designers’ Stocks Taylor Benson (STB) who are listed in Design Week's Top 100 UK design consultancies.
STB worked with the Antalis McNaughton team to identify 12 key developments, innovations or milestones in the history of printed communications and then used appropriate icons or graphical styles to represent each era.
The calendar takes you from the invention of the letterpress in 1439, through advances such as the first Billboard in 1889 and the development of the Pantone System in the 1950’s all the
way through to the digital print revolution. Each page of the calendar was printed on a different paper from the Antalis McNaughton range including Rives Sensation, Keaycolor, Cocoon Silk and Conqueror Print Excellence.
Chloe Thacker, Marketing Communications Manager at Antalis McNaughton commented: “We are delighted that our success at the National Calendar Awards has continued and this year we have not only won the ‘Best Bespoke Calendar 2011 but also received outstanding comments from the judges’.
Paul Betts of STB commented: “We're delighted to once again have worked with Antalis McNaughton and received the top honour for our design of their 2011 calendar. The calendar takes snapshots of communication and print innovation throughout the ages with original illustration to help tell every story. Each page is printed on different substrates to show off Antalis MacNaughton's product offer.”
