Deadline: 27 March 2015
Open to: international young designers up to 30 years of age
Award: the main prize is 1,100 Euro, but there are other minor prizes
Description
Young Package is a competition in packaging design. Since its foundation in 1996, the Young Package competition has achieved an international reputation and a distinctive position among competitions for young designers. Every year, several hundred participants from the whole world send their entries. Young Package focuses on packages made of paper. The competition was founded to invite students and creative people, and challenge them to create designs of corrugated and smooth cardboard or other paper materials widely used in packaging design.
Package something extraordinary, whatever you like! Or turn a common thing into a small present, an interesting anniversary artefact, a birthday package that arouses desire. Consider for instance, what the jubilee edition of your favourite beverage, perfume or chocolate could look like. Show us how you imagine an original and limited edition package for a beloved tea or technological toy. Design an annual collection, festive wrapper, original wrapping paper or box for any gift. Be original, be innovative and surprise us!
The competition jury will mainly assess: innovativeness and creativity; package ergonomics; functionality; easy manipulation ( packages should be easily open by elder people or children as well ) environmental aspects; shape, and originality of the idea; constructional imaginativeness; quality presentation. Participants will submit their entries in the form of a full-scale functional model. This means that it must be a functional mock-up; if it is designed to open, it must open. The model must be of high quality, with regard to potential representational and exhibition purposes.
Eligibility
Competition entries will be accepted in two groups:
- University students and young designers of up to 30 years of age
- High-school students
Awards
University students and young designers of up to 30 years of age
- 1st prize 1100 EUR
- 2nd prize 370 EUR
- 3rd prize 250 EUR
High-school students
- 1st prize 800 EUR
- 2nd prize 180 EUR
- 3rd prize 110 EUR
This year a special prize from the Model Obaly innovation centre will also be awarded.
One of the winners will be chosen for three weeks remunerated internship in innovation center of Model Obaly company. The rest of prize-winning will be awarded by another financial bonus or other prizes donated by the competition partners.
Application
The Registration form available online will be closed on 27 March 2015 at 1 p.m. (Central European Time).
To register, participants use an online registration form placed on the competition website. Here, they will fill in personal data and entry description for the jury to use in the selection process. After the registration, participants will receive a registration code by e-mail. This code must be indicated both on the entry and on the envelope or package in which the work will be sent. Consequently, the works will be judged anonymously.
Competition entries must be mailed carefully wrapped so that they arrive undamaged, i.e. in a sufficient-sized box or envelope, in which it is stabilised and secured. On the envelope or package, the participants have to indicate their registration code. Entries may either be sent by March 27, 2015 or delivered personally on the last day, i. e. March 27, 2015, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. to the address CZECHDESIGN/GALLERY, Vojtěšská 3, Praha 1, Czech Republic.
For further information please visit the official website.
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