Pro Carton is excited to announce “2018 Carton Design Awards” to promote the use of cartons and cartonboard to brand owners, the trade as well as designers, the media, and politicians. The competition is open to all design students in Europe who are not working as professionals. Its main purpose is to promote the use of cartons and carton board to brand owners, the trade as well as designers.
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Who May Eligible:
- All design students in Europe who are not working as professionals are eligible to apply.
- They must not have completed their studies before the summer of 2018 (proof is to be supplied with the entry, e.g. student enrolment document).
- An entry gives the organizers the right to showcase the submitted concepts in a public exhibition, including publication, promotion, and documentation of the competition.
- Teachers can plan the Awards into the curriculum for this academic year; and students, please encourage your teachers to let you participate.
How to Apply & Competitions Rules:
To participate, the applicant must submit an entry form online and provide up to 5 photos of your entry (max file size 2MB).
Entries can be submitted in four categories:
- Creative Carton board Packaging: Food & Drink: The focus lies on carton board as the most sustainable food and beverages packaging material and its recyclability. Give us a taste of great design!
- Creative Carton board Packaging: All Packaging excluding Food & Drink: all non-food packaging using carton board which is, of course, both renewable and recyclable.
- Creative Carton board Ideas: Think outside the box! Here’s a chance for you to put forward your carton board ideas outside of the packaging market.
- Save the Planet: Every minute a truckload of plastics is dumped in the ocean. Show us your ideas as to how carton board can reduce or replace plastic and help us save the planet!
Rules:
- All submitted materials – designs, layouts and/or models, empty packaging etc.
– Must be true to scale, regardless of their actual size and use,
– Must be made exclusively of cartonboard (over 200 g/m2),
– Be folded and possibly glued.
– Two and/or three-dimensional designs are accepted. - Send your entry with a copy of the entry form to the Award office – so we can identify your physical entry.
- Entries must be labeled “Pro Carton Young Designers Award“.
- If possible, all entries must be provided as print-ready versions (not larger than A3). A layout or description of one A4 page maximum must accompany all three-dimensional samples, models, empty packs etc. A description is desirable under all circumstances.
- Each entry should include a “Promote your Design” text comprising approx. 100 words as well as between one and up to a maximum of five photos of the design (please ensure good quality – no photo collages or images with text).
- Unless expressly requested otherwise, all shortlisted entries as selected by the jury will be included in the public voting for the Public Award on the Pro Carton website after the deadline for the entry has expired.
- Ideally, you should submit physical 3D samples of your designs but illustrations or two-dimensional layouts are also welcome and this year there will be a special commendation for the best two-dimensional submission.
Submitting Details:
Print the entry form and send together with your entry latest by 17th May 2018 to:
Pro Carton Young Designers Award
c/o Lejeune Association Management
Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië 131-G
NL-2593 BM The Hague
The Netherlands
Benefits:
- The main prize for the category winners is a visit to the Metsä Board Mill in Finland plus a practical training at the international carton producer Mayr-Melnhof Packaging in Austria.
- This is for the 4 winners and the other 6 finalists on top together with their teachers: An invitation to the award ceremony at the international ECMA Congress in Riga, Latvia (maximum one person plus one teacher per entry) – travel expenses and accommodation all borne by Pro Carton.
- A special trophy
- A corresponding certificate
- International publicity and recognition: the publication of prizes and prize winners (press releases, website and social media)
- There will be one award winner for each category plus a total number of six finalists.
Application Deadline:
The applicants can apply until May 21, 2021.
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If you have any question, contact at mcewen-at-procarton.com
