VGL, PrintWeek's newly-crowned Innovative Printer of the Year, has picked up yet another award for its Nike building wrap.


The Reading-based large-format specialist won Best Building Wrap in the Contra Vision Wrap Artists competition.


Contra Vision, based in New Orleans devised the awards for users of see-through film licensed under its patents.


VGL's 10,000m2 graphic, which depicted Dutch footballer Edgar Davids, was used to wrap the Nationale-Nederlanden skyscraper in Rotterdam during the Euro 2000 football championship.


The wrap, designed by Amsterdam agency Wieden & Kennedy, was produced on a Scotchprint 2000 printer using PWMF (Perforated Window Marking Film).


"It was a great job to work on," said VGL managing director Michael Ayerst, who travelled to New Orleans last week to pick up his glass trophy.


Just one week earlier Ayerst was at London's Le Meridien Grosvenor House to collect the PrintWeek Innovative Printer of the Year award for the same project.


"We haven't got a trophy cabinet," Ayerst said. "But perhaps it is time for us to get one."


Story by Lauretta Roberts