About the awards
The Pro Carton Young Designers Award is one of Europe’s leading young talent competitions for packaging design. For 15 years now, the Award has given young designers both professional recognition as well as a networking platform with industry – a first step towards a professional career.
Entries can be submitted in two categories:
- Creative Cartonboard Packaging: Cartonboard is the most sustainable packaging material and, of course, fully recyclable.
- Creative Cartonboard Ideas: Here’s a chance for you to put forward your cartonboard ideas outside of the packaging market. Last year’s winner was a cartonboard bowtie!
Ideally you should submit physical 3D samples but illustrations or two dimensional layouts are also welcome.
Start on your project now; the deadline is 25th May 2017!
The main prize is one-week practical training at an international packaging company. Furthermore, all finalists and their lecturers will be invited to the Gala Awards dinner and award ceremony on 21st September 2017 in Salzburg – the city of Mozart and Red Bull! And of course, there will also be trophies, certificates and comprehensive marketing activities
What can I enter?
Entries can be submitted in two categories:
- Creative Cartonboard Packaging
- Creative Cartonboard Ideas
How do I enter?
- 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. Each entry must be registered online, and a copy of the entry form must accompany the submitted materials.
- 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, every entry will be included in the public voting for the Public Award on the Pro Carton website when the deadline expires.
Who can participate?
The competition is aimed at all design students in Europe who are not working as professionals. They may not have completed their studies before the summer of 2016 (proof is to be supplied with the entry, e.g. student enrolment document). An entry gives the organisers the right to showcase the submitted concepts in a public exhibition, including publication, promotion and documentation of the competition.
What can I win?
- A training week in an international packaging company – travel expenses, accommodation and training costs all borne by Pro Carton.
- An invitation to the award ceremony at the international ECMA Congress for all finalists (maximum one person per entry) together with their teachers (lecturers, professors) – travel expenses and accommodation all borne by Pro Carton
- A special trophy
- A corresponding certificate
- International publicity and recognition: publication of prizes and prize winners (press releases, website and social media)
There will be one award winner for each category and a total of four finalists.
Every year from now on!
As a result of its overwhelming success in 2016, in future the Pro Carton Young Designers Award will be held every year. This means that all design schools and universities can now include the Award as a regular element in their curriculum, offering students the huge opportunity to demonstrate their creative skills in a competitive environment!
Support for educational facilities
Pro Carton offers lecturers a unique service: this includes Publications on cartonboard, information material and, above all, cartonboard for the design work. On request and timely registration, Pro Carton members will come to your school or university and hold workshops on the numerous options that cartonboard and cartons offer (design, technology, production, marketing …)
Where and when can I enter?
Entries must be received by Pro Carton, Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië 131-G, NL-2593 BM The Hague, The Netherlands, no later than 25th May 2017 and be labelled “Pro Carton Young Designers Award“. They can be returned to the entrant upon special request and at their own cost and risk. Entrants are responsible for ensuring that their entries arrive on time.
What does entry cost?
Participation is free of charge. The organisers are not responsible for the submitted materials. These can be returned upon request at the end of the promotion for the competition at the cost and risk of the entrant.
How does the jury work?
The decisions of the jury are final. Members of the jury, their relatives as well as relatives and employees of the organisers are excluded from participating in the competition. Pro Carton retains the right to use all entries for public relations purposes.
How does the public voting work?
- When the deadline at the end of May expires, all designs will be presented on our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn channels and our website for voting.
- One vote can be cast per day. Users trying to manipulate this limit will be excluded. The voting ends on 20th September 2017.
- The winner of the public voting will receive an iPad Air and a certificate as the public’s favourite. There will be a prize draw for a further iPad among all users voting
- The winner will be drawn within one week after 21st September 2017 and will be notified by e-mail. If the winner does not respond to this mail within 7 days, the prize will be forfeited and there will be another draw for a new winner.
- Multiple wins are not possible. The organisers’ decision is final. Prizes cannot be redeemed in cash.
- The organisers will not pass on personal data nor disclose addresses to third parties.
For more information click "Further official information" below.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
http://www.procarton.com/awards/pro-carton-young-designers-award/2017/