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Inspiring Awards

The summer is here and the sun is (occasionally) shining so there is no better time to start creating something exciting. Lots of awards ceremonies have taken place recently and where better to find inspiration for a new project than from your creative peers who have been voted the best in their field? See below for a round up of awards that have caught our eye. Fine Art Photography Awards Open to photographers of all levels the Fine Art Photography Awards have 20 categories ranging from abstract to photojournalism. Gold, Silver, Bronze and White award winners of 2016/2017 amateur and professional levels were announced earlier this year. The awards are open to anyone over the age of 18 and are not limited by location, click here to submit your entry to the 2017/2018 awards. BP Portrait Award Representing the best in contemporary portrait painting, you can visit The National Portrait Gallery until September 24th to see the finalists and winners person. Entry to the exhibition is free and there are multiple events taking place for families throughout the school holidays. D&AD New Blood The New Blood awards celebrate rising stars of design and art direction. Open to young creatives and recent graduates, the briefs for the awards are set by well known brands with awards being presented across multiple levels: a Wooden Pencil for the best of the year, a Yellow Pencil for true creative excellence, a prestigious Black Pencil for truly ground breaking work and a Graphite Pencil for original and inspiring ideas. The Drum Design Awards Hosted by The Drum magazine, The Drum Design Awards celebrate all categories of design from point of sale to motion graphics, created by design agencies around the [...]

Inspiring Awards2025-05-19T08:48:33+01:00

Share Your Stories

We love hearing about what you are all up to in your careers and it is always great to hear about any features or exhibitions of your artistic endeavours. This month two friends of Innova Art have been in touch to tell us what they have been up to: see below for their stories. If you would like to share your story, simply tag us in a social media post on facebook, twitter, LinkedIn or Google+ or send an email to marketing@innovaart.com. Jim Mchugh is a Los Angeles based photographer currently focussed on collaborating with LA Street Artists. In a recent article published in the first edition of the Los Angeles Times DesignLA magazine, McHugh’s photographs are featured prominently in an article focussed on the Noir scene in LA. Showcasing the work of Big Sleeps and Prime – long-time collaborators with Jim McHugh – the article speaks about the evolving art scene in LA and how the ‘darker side’ of art (tattoo, graffiti and street culture) are influencing the fine art market. Click the image below for a digital version of the article. Click on the image for a digital version of The New Noir, published in DesignLA, May 2017 We know Shane Aurousseau through our customer Fine Art Foto who has been a long-time reseller of the Innova Art product range. Shane’s latest event: No Title, No Border is a group exhibition at Leyas in Camden, London which opens on Thursday 1st June 2017 and runs until early autumn. Prints will be available to buy at the show with £5 from all sales being donated to Doctors Without Borders.

Share Your Stories2017-11-29T14:33:17+01:00

Innova Art’s smart moves at FESPA 2017

Bestsellers and up-to-the-minute innovations hit the spot for visitors to the Innova Art stand at FESPA 2017. The biggest draws were the JetMaster® and GOframe ranges, both of them offering easy, quick and cost-effective solutions for décor display. The latest JetMaster additions only increased this award-winning product’s appeal. And YouTac® Textile – astonishingly simple to print, stick up, adjust and pull away again – was the big hitter in terms of print media. “We had an excellent show, doing the best of our business from Tuesday through to Thursday,” said Mike Gonzalez, Innova Art MD. “There were the usual amazing crowds around the demo table for JetMaster® and GOframe, and the Pinchbook™ portfolio range. However many awards we win, however persuasive we are, people will always want to see for themselves how easy these products are to use – seeing is still believing.” The latest JetMaster® product is the Aqueous Direct Print Photo Wrap, which received favourable scrutiny. Innova Art also raised the curtain on the new metal and acrylic products: JetMaster® Metal and JetMaster® UV Direct Print Acrylic. “The key point with JetMaster is this: you place our substrate on your print bed and almost as soon as the printheads have passed over it, you have a saleable product – because the finishing stages are so quick,” said Gonzalez. “With the UV Direct Print Acrylic, you print, press down and trim and you’ve a beautiful image ready for display. With JetMaster® Metal you can either print onto JetMaster® Paper Dye-Sublimation Transfer, then use your dye-sublimation heat press to transfer the image onto JetMaster® Metal and you get an amazing, high gloss, visually stunning image. Or you position the metal on your UV flat bed [...]

Innova Art’s smart moves at FESPA 20172017-11-30T13:44:22+01:00

Innova Art at FESPA: where the future is now

For Innova Art, it’s all about the F-word at FESPA 2017. The future, that is – and all the ways our print solutions help businesses make the most of it. Fast, flexible and fit-for-purpose are the watchwords at Innova Art – it’s the way we operate. Which is why our stand is always such an important destination for FESPA visitors. Fully focused on what a 21st century print business needs to prosper, we’re the first to share the benefits of our future-proofed solutions. You’ll have heard of the award-winning JetMaster® Image Display Systems range. It won the Fine Art Trade Guild’s Innovation Award back in 2011. While that was years ago, it’s always back to the future at Innova Art. We improve and extend every product we make so you can look ahead with confidence. The JetMaster® Aqueous Direct Print Photo Wrap is our latest JetMaster® Innovation. It’s really rather easy: put the JetMaster® pre-cut board through a compatible aqueous inkjet printer. And that’s it. Or nearly. You’ll want a minute or so more to fold over the sides and secure them with pins, and to insert a back panel for extra strength and a neat finish. But after that – well, it’s job done: a high-impact, canvas-effect 3D photo wrap up on the wall in minutes, to the amazement – we’re sure – of all your customers. We’re working on other JetMaster® innovations for FESPA, too, but we always like to keep a few surprises in store. It’s all part of the sustained effort we put behind our best ideas. Here’s another: our inkjet-compatible textile, YouTac® Textile. Whether you’re printing bespoke wallpapers or exclusive limited edition prints, YouTac® Textile’s bright white base and matte [...]

Innova Art at FESPA: where the future is now2017-11-30T13:44:42+01:00

Innova Art’s GOframe and YouTac® wrap it up at Sign and Digital UK 2017

Printing, stretching, hanging – and covering anything that stood still long enough with a vinyl graphic – it was all action on Innova Art stand K30 with the GOframe canvas stretching system, the YouTac® décor range and Wrap Master Ruan Greeff of Wrap My Ride setting the pace at Sign and Digital UK, NEC, Birmingham, 28-30 March 2017. Perfect drum-tight canvases in minutes? With no specialist expertise, just a table, a craft knife and glue? It’s got to be GOframe. Sensational graphic displays that print, adhere and pull off again without damage or unsightly residue? You guessed it: YouTac®. It shouldn’t really be any surprise that the Innova Art stand was such a draw. “GOframe and YouTac® were certainly the products visitors most wanted to see,” said Innova Art MD Mike Gonzalez. “What we’ve worked on, and had huge successes with, is developing products that work right across the skills base of a company. Whether you’ve been doing a job for twenty years or twenty days, with GOframe and YouTac® you always get great results.” Innova Art saw at least as many visitors as at last year’s show and while GOframe and YouTac® were hits, “there was interest right across the range,” adds Gonzalez. “Our award-winning JetMaster® display system, another way to make easy work of gallery wraps, was another huge success. And we had tremendous interest in our range of digital media and canvases. We keep winning prizes because we care so much about the end product: our customers’ prints and the impact they make on their customers. It marks us out and it marks our customers out, too.” Innova Art were once again joined by Sign-Tronic, demonstrating just how many JetMaster® direct print [...]

Innova Art’s GOframe and YouTac® wrap it up at Sign and Digital UK 20172017-11-30T13:45:03+01:00

Innova Art: the word gets out at The Photography Show

All the signs were that the Innova Art stand would be a big draw at The Photography Show, NEC, Birmingham, 18-21 March 2017. And it was. We’d put the word out about Innova Art’s multi-award-winning range of digital media, ingenious photo wraps, panels and other display and presentation solutions (that’s our job). But for visitors, the opportunity to see these products being put through their paces was simply too good to miss. It meant thousands of people made a beeline for the Innova Art/Fine Art Foto stand A1/B1 throughout the four-day show. “The Photography Show was excellent and we certainly felt we saw more visitors than last year,” said Mike Gonzalez, Managing Director of Innova Art. “We drew big crowds for the live demonstrations of our GOframe canvas stretching system, and for Northlight’s Keith Cooper’s expert presentations about large-format printing. The JetMaster® Photo Wraps and JetMaster® Photo Panels, which offer such quick, easy and flexible décor solutions, proved especially popular, and the Fine Art Foto retail counter was also buzzing. We had terrific sales right across the Olmec range of media, as well as of the Fabriano Printmaking Rag 310gsm (IFA 107) and the Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm (IFA 69). The new Innova Art Editions range of six specially selected media for fine art photographers and printers makes such a difference to the image that’s produced." “And Pinchbooks, a brilliantly cost-effective and elegant way to store and present photographic prints, were once again a massive hit with photographers of all levels, from students to pros." “How we do it is not really a secret at all. We keep on meeting our customers at events like The Photography Show, to listen carefully to what it is [...]

Innova Art: the word gets out at The Photography Show2017-11-30T13:45:22+01:00

Innova Art’s bigger splash at Sign and Digital UK 2017

To make a bigger splash in print this year, visit the Innova Art stand K30 at Sign and Digital UK, NEC, Birmingham, 28-30 March 2017. For a sensational graphic display combined with optimum flexibility, choose YouTac Textile, Innova Art’s aqueous or eco-solvent compatible textile that guarantees both. Whether you’re printing bespoke wallpapers or exclusive limited edition prints, YouTac Textile’s bright white base and matte coating means brilliant colour and reflection-free images. And you’ll love the subtle way the textile weave adds texture. YouTac Textile can applied to all non-porous and many porous surfaces, while the polyester base means YouTac Textile adheres silkily to curves and corners. Just as importantly, the unique properties of our specially developed YouTac adhesive means that YouTac Textile sticks fast but also pulls away cleanly, without damaging surfaces and without leaving any residual adhesive. Available on rolls of 30m long and in widths from 17″ to 60″, YouTac Textile means stunning wall art is compatible with pro desktop and large-format printers. Also sharing the spotlight are two other wall art options: Wallpaper Smooth Paste-Up ES 180gsm (IFA 98) and the Décor Rough Textured Art ES 260gsm (IFA 93). The Wallpaper Smooth Paste-Up ES 180gsm (IFA 98) an eco-solvent, latex and UV-inkjet compatible paste-up wallpaper ideal for creating large-scale murals or bespoke designs. The scratch-resistant coating makes it the no-sweat option for high-traffic areas. Installing a complex print? This wallpaper is compatible with a PVA-based wallpaper adhesive so anyone can do the paste-up. The Décor Rough Textured Art ES 260gsm (IFA 93) is also specially designed for décor and print publishing applications. The traditional texture of watercolour paper adds interest, and the brilliant white base ensures maximum colour intensity. Both papers are [...]

Innova Art’s bigger splash at Sign and Digital UK 20172018-05-09T15:59:27+01:00

Letting you in on the secret… Innova Art and Fine Art Foto at The Photography Show 2017

The Photography Show 2017: featuring Northlight Images’ Keith Cooper with the lowdown on top quality large-format printing – on the Innova Art stand, throughout the show It’s no secret that Innova Art wins plaudits and prizes for its range of digital photo media and display solutions. The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) judges knew a great digital baryta paper – FibaPrint® – when they saw it. The UK’s Fine Art Trade Guild couldn’t help but award JetMaster® most innovative product when it appeared. So we’re being upfront about all the exciting additions to the award-winning Innova Art range we’ll be showing on stand A1/B1, at The Photography Show, NEC, Birmingham, 18-21 March 2017. After all, if we don’t tell you, someone else will. We’ll be showing visitors the new Editions range of fine art and photo media and offer the latest on the Pinchbook™, GOframe and JetMaster® display solutions. This year, our stand will feature live demonstrations for getting the very best out of digital photo technology and media, led by international authority Keith Cooper of Northlight Images, who’ll be giving visitors the lowdown on top quality large-format printing. And with stand partner and specialist inkjet online retailer Fine Art Foto, we’ll be presenting exclusive deals and promotional offers on a fantastic array of products. Watch out for: The new refreshed Innova Editions range of six specially selected media for fine art photographers and printers; The Editions range comprises four museum-quality cotton rag papers, including two Fabriano papers, a cotton-based photo paper and a Baryta paper. Combining papermaking traditions approved by the Old Masters and twenty-first science, the Editions range offers a variety of tones and textures, and the archival reliability of cotton-based media. Innova [...]

Letting you in on the secret… Innova Art and Fine Art Foto at The Photography Show 20172017-11-30T13:45:57+01:00

Mark Nacey Joins Innova Art as North American Sales Manager

Innova Art Ltd, a worldwide leader in digital fine art and specialty papers, announces the appointment of Mark Nacey as North American Sales Manager. Mr. Mark Nacey has nearly 20 years of working experience in the photographic and fine art printing industry. A graduate of RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) School of Photographic Arts & Sciences, his experience ranges from work as a professional photographer and commercial re-toucher; and over the past decade as a fine art capture and reproduction expert including a focus on technical sales and business development. Innova Art will be utilizing Nacey’s skills in both sales as well as technical advisement including profiling, product testing and new product rollouts. Innova has invested heavily in recent years; developing proprietary coatings and in adding a new European distribution and converting hub based at its 4.5 acre site in Andover, Hampshire, UK. Wayne Connelly comments, “Our investments continue to yield significant growth in new markets and channels as well as our existing core audience in the fine papers category. Mark’s appointment strengthens our North America distribution model while helping us to consolidate gains and to seek out new business opportunities. His presence will also allow us more end-user interaction, keeping a pulse on the present and listening whole-heartedly to deliver the best solutions to positively impact their business well into the future.” About Innova Art Ltd: When it comes to colour-critical digital printing and display, Innova Art delivers innovative, high-quality solutions to the photographer, artist and graphic arts professional. In addition to an award-winning range of digital inkjet media, including the recently introduced Editions range, Innova also offers innovative display solutions, custom converting solutions, and is consistently at the forefront of development for new [...]

Mark Nacey Joins Innova Art as North American Sales Manager2017-01-11T15:30:54+01:00

France Flocks to New Editions Range

Last month Innova Art exhibited at two mainstays of the French photographic calendar: Salon de la Photo and Montier Photo Festival. Salon de la Photo 2016 saw 150 brands showing the latest in cameras, printers and digital imaging. Events included practical workshops, classes and debates as well as exhibitions by world renowned photographers. On the Innova Art stand an exhibition of work by Milton H. Greene showed iconic images from his Marilyn Monroe archive, including some previously unpublished, which really caught the attention of attendees. This was the perfect platform for the company who launched the new Innova Editions paper range to the French market at the show. Reports from Salon de la Photo indicate that there were over 85,000 visitors to the five day show and the Innova Art team certainly shared the experience. “The show was busy every day, visitors were queuing to get in all day,” reports James Cannone, Sales Account Manager for Innova Art. Visitors to the stand were particularly drawn to Fabriano Printmaking Rag 310gsm for its natural white, slightly textured surface and the Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm for its smooth gloss surface ideal for black and white prints. Alongside papers in the Editions range the Innova team also demonstrated the range of image display products available: JetMaster, GOframe and Pinchbook Photo Books. Visitors were particularly impressed by the flexibility of GOframe canvas stretching systems and the ability to create quick and easy canvases at almost any size. Later in the same week that Salon de la Photo finished, Montier Photo Festival opened in the Village of Montier-en-Der. Dedicated to wildlife and nature photography this primarily outdoor festival attracts a number of professional and amateur photographers every year. Alongside a [...]

France Flocks to New Editions Range2017-11-30T13:46:22+01:00
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