Hamilton-based design and printing company Admark has picked up a silver medal at a prestigious New York festival for the Lord of the Rings graphics on an Air New Zealand Boeing 747.
The annual awards are now in their 47th year. More than 3800 entries were received from 62 countries.
From those,
947 achieved finalist status with only 313 medals awarded.
Admark managing director Laurie Pilling said the award showed his company was a world leader in printing and applying aircraft graphics.
The graphics for the aircraft were designed to commemorate the release of the third and final instalment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Admark had previously printed and applied graphics to two aircraft for the first and second movies in the trilogy.
The project for the third was on a grander scale and was the largest aircraft graphic ever produced.
It was made up of 360 individual pieces, had 800sq m graphic curves around the fuselage and engines of the Boeing, it stretched more than 48m along each side of the aircraft and up to 8m deep from the centre of the roof around to the cargo belly.
The aviation marking film was specifically designed by 3M to withstand huge changes in aircraft pressurisation.
- NZPA
