Suttle-Straus is pleased to announce that it is an award winner in the 2024 Graphics Excellence Awards (GEA), a competition owned and managed by The Great Lakes Graphics Association (GLGA). The competition is an annual event that recognizes and rewards printing and finishing companies who combine fine craftsmanship with technology to produce outstanding finished products. Suttle-Straus has been recognized in the GEA competition for over a decade.
This year, Suttle-Straus won 2 Best of Category awards, 2 Best of Division awards and numerous Awards of Excellence and Certificates of Merit. The Best of Category award-winning entries will automatically advance to the Premier Print Awards competition, a nationwide competition where the piece has a chance to win the coveted “Benny” award.
Judging for the GEAs was completed by a panel of out-of-state judges with extensive experience in printing and print production. Each entry was judged on its own merit in a category with similar printed pieces. The judging criteria included registration, crossovers, clarity and neatness, sharpness of halftones and line drawings, richness and tonal qualities of color, paper and ink selection, ink coverage, difficulty of printing, effective contrast or softness, finishing, bindery and overall visual impact.
An awards ceremony to celebrate all the winning entries will be held in the future. Suttle-Straus was also proud to print and assemble the award plaques for all the winners in our wide format department.
Best of Category:
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Brochure Series
The Cardinal's Annual Appeal for the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe featured gloss coatings and metallic ink to match the beauty of its shrine benefactor. Click here to request a sample: https://www.suttle-straus.com/shrine-sample
Best of Category:
Rolling Suds Dirty to Clean Mailers
These interactive mailers showed how homes and schools could go from dirty to clean with Rolling Suds power washing services!
Best of Division:
Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce Legislative Agenda
This brochure for the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce's advocacy agenda used an accordion fold at staggered angles to create a circular final format.
Best of Division:
Suttle-Straus New Year's Card
Our Creative team engineered a modified origami miura fold to make an interactive countdown to the new year.
