The nominations for this year's Roses Design Awards - which looks to recognise the best in design outside the M25 - have been announced.

Up for Designer/Design Team of the Year are Stephen Woowat from Elmwood, Ben Greengrass, Elmwood and the design team at Uniform headed by design director Tim Sharp.

Other category nominations revealed include, Direct Mail, Corporate Identity, Promotional Literature, Packaging Design, Publications and many more.

You can see the full list of nominations on the Roses Design Awards website.

This year's awards were judged by (pictured) design guru Michael Wolff alongside a panel that included creatives from NB Studio, Together Design, Atelier Works and Lewis Moberley who were all treated to the Scottish delicacy of fried Mars Bar while in talks during the judging process which took place in Glasgow.

It has already been announced that this year will see the introduction of several new categories as the ceremony recognises the achievements being made in the UK’s video games industry.

The six new categories have been create to promote and reward the thriving gaming community.

The new categories are

• Best Online Promotion
• Best Offline Promotion
• Best Online Game
• Best Offline Game
• Best Use of Animation in Gaming
• Best Mobile/Hand Held Game

These categories will be judged by a panel of gaming professionals including Ross Sleight from Virgin Games.

The gala awards ceremony will this year be held on 23 October at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham.

For more information visit the Roses website or contact Kimberley Baran on 0141 559 6078 or email kim.baran@carnyx.com