Packaging Design News
RSA Student Design Awards 2017/18
The Royal Society of Arts has announced the briefs for the 2017/18 RSA Student Design Awards. The leading global design competition provides students and new graduates with an invaluable network and platform to develop their careers.
Mr. Pip's Double Cross
Designed by Pip Tompkin Studio, Mr. Pip's Double Cross is a twist on the most popular dice game in the world, "Liar's Dice."
Denomination Named Design Agency of the Year at Harpers Design Awards
Denomination was named Design Agency of the Year for the second year running at the Harpers Design Awards, scooping a total of 12 awards.
Depot Designs Branding and Packaging for Beanopini Lupini Beans
Depot Creative designed the branding and packaging for Beanopini, a new start-up snack food business. The snack category is saturated with all types of offerings but few are nutritionally comparable to this Mediterranean 'ancient' superfood.
Robot Food Rebrands Saxa
Robot Food recently rebranded Saxa's core range of salts, including two new grinder products. Saxa has been around since 1907 and is one of the UK's better known heritage brands.
Brandpoint Rebrands McCambridge Bread Tin Bakery Range
Brandpoint recently revived and reinvented McCambridge's classic home bake bread kit range to appeal to the modern market.
Bulletproof Creates Visual Identity and Packaging for Apetina
Bulletproof recently created a contemporary new brand, visual identity and packaging design for global cheese brand Apetina.
Robot Food Rebrands Seabrook
Seabrook and Robot Food recently collaborated to reposition the brand, bucking mainstream norms to bag more penetration.
Moxie Sozo Creates New Look for Icelandic Provisions
Moxie Sozo designed the new look for Icelandic Provisions. Boulder-based creative agency created a new packaging that would evoke the cultural, creative and geographic history of Iceland.
Absolut Launches Limited Edition LGBT Bottle
Absolut has launched a new limited edition bottle. The new rainbow design is the third and consecutive bottle to support the LGBTQ community, with this year's interpretation of the flag at the centre of a high-impact, media campaign.
Nescafé Azera and Twelve Launch Range of Iconic Tins
TWELVE has developed a multichannel campaign for Nescafé Azera, with a range of iconic and desirable limited edition tins, created in collaboration with emerging design talent from the University for the Creative Arts.
Peloponnese Relaunches with Revitalized Visual Identity to Appeal to a New Generation of Taste Adventurers
Bulletproof has created a new visual identity for Peloponnese, aimed to establish the brand as leader in its category and appeal to a new generation of consumers looking for culinary adventure.
PB Creative Designs New Brand Identity for Lifeplus Be
PB Creative has created the new brand identity for Lifeplus Be, a natural sports supplements range. Lifeplus approached the agency to create a new sports nutrition brand that would provide the company with an ownable and credible space within the UK, Europe and US sports nutrition markets.
ButterflyCannon Redesigns No7 Lift & Luminate and Restore & Renew
ButterflyCannon have rejuvenated the packaging of the No7 Lift & Luminate franchise, following the successful launch of the redesigned anti-ageing serum in 2016.
Robot Food Creates New Branding for Bulk Powders
Robot Food designed the branding, website and packaging for Bulk Powders in 2013, and were asked back to unify and progress the brand to accommodate the growing product range.
Denomination Gives Fazzoletto a Disruptive Design
Denomination has unveiled packaging and brand identity for Fazzoletto, a new wine from Piedmont-based wine co-operative Araldica.
Garbergs_Project Redesigns Packaging for MER
When Coca-Cola changed the recipe of the beloved MER soft drink in order to make it more natural, with Swedish spring water and 30% less sugar, the company tasked Garbergs_Project to redesign the packaging.
Winners of 2017 European Design Awards
The winners of the 2017 European Design Awards have been unveiled at a ceremony in Porto's Rivoli Theatre.
Nude Brand Creation Designs Packaging for Martell VS Single Distillery
Nude Brand Creation has designed the packaging for the Martell VS Single Distillery, a cognac from a single distillation source.
Smith&+Village Brings Glamour and Indulgence to Booths Cakes and Puddings
Smith&+Village recently rebranded the puddings and cakes range for premium Northern supermarket Booths.
Nude Brand Creation Wins 1st Place at Dieline Awards
Nude Brand Creation scooped 1st place at The Dieline Awards in the Spirits category for its work on The Newmarket Gin.
IKEA Wins 2017 Dieline Award for PÅTÅR Coffee Packaging
IKEA recently won a 2017 Dieline Award for the packaging of its PÅTÅR coffee range. Awarded first place in the Non-Alcoholic Beverages category, the packaging features playfully stacked cups and expresses the brand's Swedish heritage in a warm and light-hearted way.
B&B Studio Designs Identity for BrewDog's Lone Wolf
B&B studio designed the identity for the BrewDog's new spirits brand LoneWolf. Pared back and minimalist, the design flies in the face of convention and reflects the brand's aim to operate as an outsider within the sprits category.
Denomination Designs Packaging and Brand Identity for Inaugural Release of Yalumba's Most Prestigious Wine
Denomination has unveiled packaging and brand identity for The Caley, the most prestigious wine yet from Yalumba, a fifth-generation family wine company of the Barossa, South Australia.
Smith&+Village Rebrands Booths Tea Range with Bold Color Palette
Smith&+Village has redesigned Booths' range of teas, calling on the retailer's origins as a tea importer in 1847.
Bulletproof Gives Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs the Seal of Approval with Revitalized Packaging Design
Bulletproof recently refreshed the packaging design for Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs to coincide with the exciting recipe changes to its entire line of products.
ButterflyCannon Creates Packaging Design for Unity Beauty Essentials - The Pregnancy Collection
ButterflyCannon has created brand positioning, identity & packaging design for the world's first premium beauty range specifically created for women before, during & after pregnancy; Unity Beauty Essentials - The Pregnancy Collection.
Winners of ADC 96th Annual Awards
The ADC has announced the winners of its 96th Annual Awards. McCann New York's "The Field Trip to Mars" for Lockheed Martin racked up the accolades at the global ADC 96th Annual Awards gala in New York with eight ADC Gold Cubes and a coveted ADC Black Cube in Digital for best in discipline.
Design Bridge Creates Vibrant Packaging for Fortnum & Mason's Core Range of Biscuits
Design Bridge has redesigned the packaging for Fortnum & Mason's core range of biscuits. The new designs put a contemporary twist on the decorative ceramics and fine china traditionally used for a British teatime and reflects Fortnum & Mason's ongoing focus on bold and beautiful design, as well as delicious product.
8th International Plastics Sustainability Conference in Anaheim
Plasticity Forum will host its 8th International Plastics Sustainability Conference on May 9th in Anaheim.
Good Design Award 2017
The 2017 Good Design Award is now open for submissions. Good Design Award is one of the world's leading design promotion system that aims to discover good design in various fields that develop industries and enrich our lives and to publicize them to society.
iF Design Award 2018
The 2018 iF Design Award is now open for submissions. Agencies, architects, designers and companies from all over the world are invited to put their products and services to the test.
Above+Beyond Creates Can Packaging for Meantime
Above+Beyond has designed the packaging for Meantime's range of flagship beers which are launching in 330ml cans for the first time.
Robot Food Creates Branding and Packaging for Creative Cook
British Pepper & Spice is the UK's leading herbs and spices manufacturer. With a reputation built on supplying retailers with top quality own-label products, the time was right to launch their own brand.
London International Awards 2017
The 2017 London International Awards (LIA) is now open for submissions. The Awards honors creativity and new ideas in Advertising, Production, Digital, Design, Music & Sound, Technology and Branded Entertainment.
2017 Adobe Design Achievement Awards
The 2017 Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA) is now open for submissions. With 14 categories, the ADAA is a competition for creative students of all disciplines.
Communication Arts' 58th Design & Advertising Competitions: Call for Entries
Communication Arts is calling for entries for its 58th annual Design and Advertising Competitions.
B&B Studio Creates Name, Identity and Packaging for Kit & Kin
B&B studio has created the name, visual identity and packaging for Kit & Kin, a new family brand featuring nappies that combine premium performance with bio-degradability, alongside a range of certified natural skincare for mothers and babies.
Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2017
Entries are now open for the 25th Red Dot Award: Communication Design. The competition offers agencies, designers and companies from all over the world a platform for evaluating their design and creative achievements.
Absolut Facet Limited Edition Bottle
Absolut has unveiled its latest limited edition bottle, Absolut Facet, a blue bottle featuring an asymmetrical design.
Baré by Depot Creative and Vert Design
Depot Creative and Vert Design have recently unveiled Baré, a unique range of bespoke botanical facial serums focused on adding emotional equity and preciousness.
Sheridan&Co Shakes Up Nutritional Supplements Category with New Premium Brand Identity for KIN
Sheridan&Co created the new brand identity for KIN - a range of premium nutritional supplements developed by renowned fitness gurus Kyle and Kelly Maslen, otherwise known collectively as KMPT.
Pentawards 2017: Call for Entries
The 11th Pentawards will open for submissions February 20, 2017. First held in 2007, the Pentawards are recognised as the most prestigious worldwide competition exclusively devoted to packaging design in all its forms.
Carlsberg Limited Edition København Collection by Taxi Studio
Taxi Studio has recently designed limited edition packaging for Carlsberg, aptly titled 'The København Collection.'
2017 European Design Awards
The 2017 European Design Awards is now open for entries. The annual competition aims to celebrate best examples of communication design in Europe.
Design Bridge Creates Flippin' Good Pancakes Seasonal Tin for Lyle's Golden Syrup
Design Bridge has created a new packaging for Lyle's Golden Syrup that captures the fun and festivities of pancake making season.
Graphis Design Annual 2018: Call for Entries
Graphis is currently accepting entries for its 2018 Design Annual. From Logos and Packaging to Branding and Illustration, this competition offers an all encompassing look at the world of graphic design.
Taxi Studio Rebrands Carlsberg Export
Taxi Studio created the rebranding for Carlsberg Export. Despite boasting a remarkably rich brand history originating in Denmark - the country, which remains home to Carlsberg - their premium beer was struggling to stand for anything in consumers' minds.
Nude Brand Creation Wins Two Gold Awards at Spirits Design Masters 2016
Nude Brand Creation scooped two gold awards at the Spirits Design Masters 2016, winning the Gin category for The Newmarket Gin and the Scotch Whisky category for Ballantine's 21 Year Old Signature Oak Edition.
Johnnie Walker Blue Label Striding Man Edition
Johnnie Walker House has launched a limited four-bottle edition, featuring the brand logo's evolution from 1908 to 2015, to pay homage to the Striding Man logo.
Young Package 2017: Open & Play
The 22nd Young Package competition is calling on designers to create a package that consumers would like to play with. Create an interactive package box and prove that even protective packaging can be fun.
International Design Excellence Awards 2017
The 2017 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) is now open for submissions. IDEA is a premier international design competition sponsored annually by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and judged by renowned design experts from around the world.
Seymourpowell Designs New Branding and Packaging for Lypsyl
Seymourpowell has created a new brand strategy, brand mark and packaging for Lypsyl to make their products stand out from competition in an increasingly crowded category.
Brandimage Designs Macallan's Double Cask
Brandimage has created the branding for the first edition of the global relaunch of The Macallan's Double Cask.
Ragged Edge Creates Brand Identity for Hipchips
Ragged Edge has developed a bold brand and visual identity for Hipchips, London's first gourmet crisps restaurant, which launched in Soho this month.
HOW Design Live 2017
The 2017 HOW Design Live will be held May 2-6 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, IL. For more than 25 years, HOW Design Live has been the premier event and one of the largest gatherings of creative professionals in the world.
Turdetano by TSMGO
TSMGO has created the branding for Turdetano, a wine range composed of two red and two white wines. Its image was inspired by the ceramic vestiges of Turdetania, the most prosperous region of the Iberian village settlements in the Aljarafe region of Seville.
LRXD Creates Packaging for DripJoy
LRXD designed the identity and packaging for DripJoy. DripJoy is perfecting the single-serve coffee experience by delivering pods of fresh, sustainably sourced coffee to customers' homes each month.
Supreme Creations Innovation and Impact Awards 2017
The Supreme Innovation and Impact Awards recognize and reward the most innovative and well-designed products and sustainable packaging produced worldwide. The theme for this year's event is 'Second Life' - a celebration of reusable packaging and giveaway designs.
TDC63 Communication and Typeface Design Competitions
The Type Directors Club is calling for submissions for its 63rd Communication Design Competition and the 20th Typeface Design Competition. The competitions highlight the world's best typographic work in both communication and typeface design.
The Package Design Book 4
The Package Design Book 4 is now out, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Pentawards, featuring the stars of the 2015 and 2016 competitions.
Brandimage Designs Bottle for Van Cleef & Arpels in New York
Brandimage has designed the bottle for the new perfume for men, Van Cleef & Arpels in New York. As a a tribute to the art deco architectural tradition of New York, where Van Cleef & Arpels has its own boutique since 1942 in the heart of Manhattan, Brandimage imagined an encounter between the famous jeweler and the city that never sleeps, through the design of the new Van Cleef & Arpels' in New York.
2017 DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation
The 2017 DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation is now open for submissions. The long-celebrated awards program distinguishes companies that have answered to the worldwide mandate for improvements in customer product experiences and sustainability.
Hornall Anderson Rebrands Progresso Soups
Launching this soup season, Progresso teamed up with Hornall Anderson to redesign their brand.
Seymourpowell Create Packaging for New Superdrug Gift Box Range
Seymourpowell recently created a new range of gift boxes for Superdrug, the Spåa Retreat range.
ADC 96th Annual Awards: Call for Entries
The ADC 96th Annual Awards are now open for submissions. The Award seeks to honor the people and projects that have best displayed these ideals over the past year.
Studio Parr Rebrands Lindfield Coffee Works
Studio Parr was tasked by Lindfield Coffee Works, an independent artisan roastery & coffee bar based in a vibrant Sussex village famed for its quintessentially English pond and wild fowl, to create an exciting new look that reflected their strong sense of locality and artisan process.
Butterfly Cannon Creates Innovative New Packaging for Bulleit Bourbon
Butterfly Cannon has designed an innovative packaging for Bulleit Bourbon - a Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey, with a high-rye content and iconic frontier inspired bottle.
B&B Studio Creates New Look for Nestlé SPECIAL.T
B&B has created an iconic and disruptive new design for the relaunch of Nestlé's premium tea capsule system SPECIAL.T.
Beyond Meat Relaunches with Bold New Packaging & Visual Identity by Bulletproof
Bulletproof created a bold new packaging and visual identity for Beyond Meat, a plant-based protein brand with ambitious plans to change the way the world 'meats.'
200 Best Packaging Design Worldwide 17/18
Lürzer's Archive is now accepting for entries for its 2017/18 '200 Best: Packaging Design' compilation.
DesignLSM Creates Brand Identity and Interior Design for Kanuka
Kanuka is a specialist loose-leaf tea company based in St Albans; a family run business created by John and Beth Hesler and Sophie Taylor.
Design is the New Currency Symposium
Design is New Currency the first annual design symposium organized by Pratt Institute, which will take place at the Whitney Museum in NY on November 2nd.
Appartement 103 Creates a New Rose Wine for Ramón Bilbao
Appartement 103 has worked with Ramón Bilbao, part of Diego Zamora Group, to create LaLomba: a new top-end rosé sub-brand that represents the most special wine of the range.
Ragged Edge Refreshes Brand Identity for Deliciously Ella
Ragged Edge has refreshed the brand identity for food blogger and Instagram star Ella Mills, better known as Deliciously Ella. The brand identity includes a new design system and updated logo which is shared with the Mae Deli.
Bulletproof Creates Bold New Branding for Stimorol
Bulletproof recently created a new visual identity and packaging design for European gum brand Stimorol.
Jury Selects Winners of the Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2016
The winners of the 2016 Red Dot Award: Communication Design has been chosen. From Corporate Design and Apps to Retail Design, the competition aims to showcase the excellent communication solutions in the design industry.
Design It Yourself 2016
The 2016 Design It Yourself competition is now open for submissions. Organized by the European Packaging Design Association, the competition calls for designers to develop ideas on the future of packaging.
Shores of Africa by Design Activity
Design Activity designed the branding and packaging for Shores of Africa, a young, UK-based food discovery service focused on producing snacks, food, spices blends, marinades and other forms of delicacies with an African heritage.
Slice Redesigns Go Ahead! Packaging
Slice has redesigned McVitie's "Go Ahead!" snack bars for the Australian and international markets.
Absolut Mix Limited Edition Bottle
Absolut has unveiled Mix, the latest of the brand's acclaimed series of limited edition bottles.
AGDA Design Awards 2016
The 2016 AGDA Design Awards are now open for submissions. The Awards recognize and document the best work in Australia across a wide range of disciplines.
Slice Redesigns Cypressa Pickles Range
Slice Design has created a revamped branding for Cypressa's range of Spanish Pickles, Cornichons and Jalapeños.
Slice Creates Packaging and Identity for Pizza Pilgrims Frying Pan Pizza Kit
Pizza Pilgrims have teamed up with Amazon to launch the perfect pizza kit to make your very own authentic neapolitan pizzas at home.
Maeutica Creates Branding for Tiziano
Maeutica has developed the brand concept for Tiziano café & pastry shop chain.
Nescafé Azera and Twelve Tap Into Young Design Talent to Launch Range of Iconic Tins
TWELVE has developed a multichannel campaign for Nescafé Azera, with a range of iconic and desirable limited edition tins, created in collaboration with top emerging design talent from the University for the Creative Arts.
Seymourpowell Creates New Branding and Packaging for Purina Cat Chow
Seymourpowell has created the new branding and packaging for premium cat food, Purina Cat Chow.
R16 by Waarmakers: Packaging Turns Into LED Luminary
Designed by Waarmakers, R16 is a cardboard LED tube light fixture, which is both packaging and fixture at the same time.
Design Bridge Bring Lyle's Black Treacle to New Audiences with Limited Edition Sticky Summer BBQ Tin
Design Bridge has created a limited edition summertime tin for Lyle's Black Treacle.
B&B Studio Creates Brand Identity for Craft Soft Drinks Company Dalston's
B&B studio has created a new visual identity for the Dalston Cola Company. Handmade in East London, from 100 per cent natural and locally sourced ingredients, Dalston's tasked B&B with creating a solid brand proposition.
B&B Studio Rebrands Just Bee
B&B studio has created the new brand identity and packaging for Just Bee, a natural spring water enriched with a single drop of honey.
CAFE+ Set to Disrupt Coffee Market
Slice Design recently created the branding and packaging for the new range of coffees from CAFE+.
Parqer Wine Glass for Outdoor Use
Parqer Glass has been awarded with the 2016 Red Dot for their innovative outdoor wine glass.
FLEX/design Wins Editor's Choice at The Dieline Awards 2016
FLEX/design's packaging design for Ultimaker 2 GO has been awarded Editor's Choice at the 2016 Dieline Awards.
The District Creates Packaging for Old Friends Brewery
The District recently designed the branding and packaging for Old Friends Brewery. Old Friends Brewery was founded by two old friends who saw a gap in the UK's burgeoning American-style craft beer scene for a Cambridge-based brewery.
Craig Redman and Karl Maier Design Limited Edition Toilet Paper Rolls
Illustration duo Craig & Karl recently created a series of limited edition toilet paper rolls for the 'Who Gives A Crap,' an organization that creates and distribute environmentally friendly toilet paper and donates 50% of its profits to WaterAid to build toilets and improve sanitation in the developing world.
Lancome's Art of French Gifting by Appartement 103
Lancome recently tasked Appartement 103 to rethink its institutional gifting elements and visual identity, while developing a new luxury experience that would embrace the art of gifting by Lancôme.
Hornall Anderson Brews Up a Colourful Redesign for Asda Own Label Tea Range
Hornall Anderson designed packaging for Asda's range of own label tea. The redesigned ranges of black, speciality, green, fruit and herbal teas launch this month.
The Newmarket Gin Launches with Horse Racing Themed Design by Nude Brand Creation
Nude Brand Creation designed a small batch gin which celebrates the history of racing at Newmarket.
iF Design Award 2017
The 2017 iF Design Award is now open for entries. Agencies, architects, designers and companies from all over the world are invited to put their products and services to the test.