The winners of the Viscom Awards were announced during the Viscom Düsseldorf trade fair last week. The organiser of the four awards programmes noted the 'innovative achievements' recognised in the competitions.

The judges named the Merkur Casino Light Show project by Bertelmann and its lighting technology partners Toni Maroni and Hansen Neon as the winner of the Best Practice Award Light Advertising 2011.

In the Best of 2011 Awards which honoured the show's exhibitors, Fahnen Herold W Frauenhoff's Stormfriend flag material, the Mimaki JV34-260 ink-jet printer, and Neschen's solvoprint easy dot 100 PE material won in the Large Format Print category, while Roland DG's VersaStudio BN-20 won the Sign-making prize and Lightpanel's self-named product came top in Light Advertising.

Scala's interactive ordering system for Holyfields restaurants, people interactive's Miele VirtuReal Kitchen, dimedis's shopping centre information and guiding system, CPP Studios Event's CampusMedia network and eyefactive's MultiTouch counter were all Digital Signage Best Practice Award winners.

In the Superstar awards, gold awards were presented to Kersten Display, Hohn Displays and Consumers Packagingen, cdp, Kontur Design and Produktion, Wanzl Metallwarenfabrik, Schoepe Display, SCA Packaging, outline display, Techno-Consult International, Deinzer, Willson and Brown, rlc packaging group and DELO Computer.