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Christmas Greetings a Resounding SuccessChristmas card from Kurz wins Gold Leaf Award
Fürth, 14 May 2009: The 2008 Christmas card from the stamping foil manufacturer
Kurz has received a Gold Leaf Award from the Foil & Specialty Effects Association
(FSEA). The prize was awarded on 6 May 2009 at the Gold Leaf Awards Banquet in
Atlanta.
The FSEA has been holding annual awards for the best print-finished products for
16 years now. The products are judged on their design, execution and level of
difficulty. The Kurz Christmas card was judged the product with the most creative
application of hot stamping technology in the Greeting Cards category. The card,
created by the Nuremberg designer Udo Bernstein, shows an embossed initial from
the Fraktur-Initial-Buch (Gothic Initials Book) of the writing master Johann
Neudörffer the Elder. The motif was made available by the German National
Museum in Nuremberg. The special feature of the card is its depiction of the entire
embossing process. Pages one and two of the six-page card show the front and rear
side of the embossing die, pages three and four the hot-stamped relief, and pages
five and six the counter die of the stamping die. The project was implemented by the
Herrmann printing shop in Zirndorf in collaboration with the Denglanz print-finishing
company in Erlangen.
It has been a tradition of the foil manufacturer Kurz to send out each year an
elaborately designed Christmas card illustrating specific aspects of the hot stamping
or cold foiling process. According to Kurz, the card is awaited with anticipation each
year by customers and suppliers around the world. This coveted collector’s item is
produced exclusively for the customers and partners of the company and is not
freely available.
LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG · 90763 Fürth · Tel +49 911 71 41-0 · Fax +49 911 71 41-357
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Figure caption: The award-winning Christmas card from Kurz displays an embossed
initial from the 16th Century.
About Kurz
The Kurz Group, the recognized global leader in hot stamping technology, represents over
100 years of experience in hot stamping. The range of applications for Kurz foils is virtually
without limit – on greeting cards and packaging, electronic and household products, cosmetic
articles, textiles, furniture, automotive parts and more. With 3,500 employees located at nine
plants in Europe, the USA and the Pacific region, together with 19 subsidiaries and 70
agencies strategically placed around the globe, the Kurz Group manufactures and distributes
a comprehensive product range for the surface finishing, decorating and counterfeit
prevention sectors. A complete range of stamping machines and tools rounds off its product
offering. Kurz, with research and development departments in both Europe and the USA,
coupled with customer service and on-site technical assistance, supports its customers
internationally with complete, custom-tailored solutions comprising foils, application
machines and stamping tools.
Press Contact:
Lucie Mengel
LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG
Schwabacher Strasse 482, 90763 Fuerth / Germany
Phone: + 49 911 71 41-96 38, Fax: + 49 911 71 41-96 40
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.kurz.de
LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG · 90763 Fürth · Tel +49 911 71 41-0 · Fax +49 911 71 41-357
