05.25.21
Diamond Packaging announced that it won seven awards in the 28th Annual FSEA Gold Leaf Awards Competition, for foil stamping, embossing, and other specialty effects.
Awards were announced during the 2021 FSEA Online Learning Experience.
The competition celebrates the quality, added value, shelf presence, security, and brand recognition that specialty finishing processes lend to the printed sheet.
Entries are judged by a panel of industry experts on several criteria including design, execution, and level of difficulty.
Diamond won a Gold Leaf award in the “Best Use of Foil/Embossing – Rigid Box (Best Engineered)” category for its Diamond Lockbox certified child-resistant (CR) packaging.
Diamond Lockbox folding cartons are an upscale, certified CR packaging solution for medical or recreational marijuana products.
The single- and dual-lock options feature finished edges and ample billboard space and can be decorated with a wide range of printing and finishing effects.
The patent-pending designs were tested by a third-party laboratory using the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) protocol and standards for Poison Prevention Packaging and fulfill the requirements of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 16, Part 1700.20.
Diamond Lockbox cartons were converted utilizing tear-resistant paperboard, and offset printed with three PMS color inks, in-line with UV matte coating, UV gloss spot coating, and DiamondTouch soft-touch coating.
Diamond won Silver Leaf awards in the “Best Use of Cold Foil” and “Best Use of Foil/Embossing – Calendar” categories for its 2021 corporate calendar.
The 2021 calendar pays tribute to Susan B. Anthony, a Rochesterian leading social reform, women’s suffrage, and the abolitionist movement. The header features an image of the Susan B. Anthony House on 17 Madison Street in Rochester, NY, where Anthony lived from 1866 until she died in 1906.
The image was designed by Laura Wilder, an award-winning local artist, who also collaborated on the design of the calendar.
The calendars were converted utilizing Clearwater ReMagine paperboard made with 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR) fiber, cold foiled, and offset printed with four-color process and two PMS inks, in-line with UV matte, UV satin, UV gloss spot coating, and soft-touch coating.
Matte UV coating is used on the house and background. High gloss UV spot coating brings out the reflection in the windows. Soft-touch coating adds a tactile effect to the clouds. Satin UV spot coating enhances the backers (monument, sign, wagon). Cold foil delivers shimmering metallic effects in the header.
Many of the header components were embossed, including the house, cantilever windows, shutters, flag, posts, steps, front gate, trees, and text. Select backers components (including the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument of Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in Central Park, NY) were also embossed.
The calendar pages were converted utilizing French Paper Natural Parchtone 80# Text parchment paper and offset printed with four-color process inks and aqueous coating.
The recyclable shipper was converted utilizing Clearwater Candesce SBS paperboard laminated to E-flute corrugated fiberboard, and offset printed with four-color process inks, in-line with an aqueous gloss coating.
Diamond won a Silver Leaf award in the “Best Use of Foil/Embossing – Folding Carton (Difficult)” category for Inter Parfums’ Dunhill Icon Absolute packaging.
The cartons were converted utilizing metalized polyester film (laminated to FSC-certified SBS board) and offset printed with opaque white, dense black, and transparent gold inks, in-line with an aqueous satin-matte coating. The inside was printed with process black ink, in-line with an aqueous coating.
Diamond won a Silver Leaf ward in the “Best Use of Specialty UV Coating - Screen (Raised, Textured, or Glitter)” category for Parlux Fragrances’ Gold Rush Man Paris Hilton packaging.
The cartons were converted utilizing metalized polyester board and offset printed with UV gold, black, and opaque white inks, with UV flexo glitter pearl coating, and UV matte coating.
Diamond won a Bronze Leaf award in the “Best Use of Cold Foil” category for P&G’s Head & Shoulders Royal Oils Instant Soothe Scalp Elixir packaging.
The cartons were converted utilizing Clearwater Candesce SBS paperboard, cold foiled, and offset printed with four color process and three PMS inks, in-line with UV matte coating, and UV gloss spot coating.
Overprinting transparent inks over cold foil creates shimmering metallic effects, including gold and cyan ribbons that wrap from the front to the side panels, and gold borders that frame the product benefits call-outs on the side panels.
Diamond won a Bronze Leaf award in the “Best Use of Foil/Embossing – Folding Carton (Creative)” category for Parlux Fragrances’ Illuminare Intensa Vince Camuto packaging.
The cartons were converted utilizing FSC-certified Stora Enso Ensocoat SBS paperboard and offset printed with PMS and dense black inks, in-line with UV matte coating.
The graphic design incorporates soft gradients that simulate radiating light.
All of Diamond’s winning entries were designed utilizing recyclable or recycled paperboards and manufactured using 100% clean, renewable wind energy in a Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL) facility.
