Student Packaging Designer of the Year
The Student Packaging Designer of the year is an opportunity for student studying design to showcase their ideas and talent to a range of industry experts by attempting to solve some of the known consumer issues in packaging through design.
This year our first prize is £2000 along with six category prize winners of £750 each. The best and brightest will also be offered the opportunity to take up internships, work shadowing or mentoring with some of our industry champion companies from which are judges are drawn.
The competition is organised by market research company Watch Me Think, whom I am working on behalf of, and sponsored by Crown Packaging with the main aim of encouraging tomorrows design talent to consider the option of packaging design as a career, help them build their design portfolio and enable them to raise their profile within the design industry. All entrants retain their IP rights and previous winners have gone on to start their own companies based on their take part in international design internships.
If you feel this may be of interest to your students whether they intend to go into the packaging industry or not I would appreciate it if you could make them aware of the challenge. Full information and registration will be available at www.spd.watchmethink.com and the competition is open to any current higher or further education student irrelevant of course choice. Entrants may choose to use a previous design they have created or come up with something completely new as long as their design fits into at least 1 of the following categories::
- Dispensing
- Product Waste
- Packaging Waste
- Visuals / Graphics
- Opening & Closing
- Storage & Transportation
The process of entry is simple
- From Friday 2nd of December go to http://spd.watchmethink.com and register interest. This will give access to useful information and hints and tips from the judging panel, industry champions and previous winners
- Access the videos of real consumers talking about real packing issues to gain some inspiration or simply develop an idea you already have.
- Submit your idea is the designated format no later than 10 March 2017
Please see our PDF poster, here: flyer-prize-pounds