Model Young Package Design Contest entries by 11 May 20201

Model Young Packaging Design Competition is geared to celebrate their silver jubilee with an attractive theme – Personal Care. Designers are invited worldwide to create a modern packaging that is sustainable and also plays a role in improving the quality of life. The competition will be international, one-round, open and anonymous.

The contest is organized by Czechdesign for Model Obaly, a.s. which believes in supporting and challenging young creative talents. Prizes totaling EUR 6,200 await the winners selected by a panel of reputed industry experts.

Theme – Personal care

Healthier, more beautiful, happier and responsible – is the model man of today who inevitably needs a lot of products and leaves a lot of packaging behind. The applicants must design packaging for personal care products that will improve people’s everyday life and heal the ailments of today’s world. Every product is for a different type of person – it can be the little ones, men and women or the elders.

The applicants have to choose either the path of natural products or the latest scientific knowledge on all the things that we eat and drink daily, apply to our bodies, or simply use to improve our lives. The applicants must aim to make such packaging that makes our routine lives better.

Designers are welcome to creatively and responsibly pack cosmetics, nutritional supplements (vitamins, teas), medical supplies, medicines or hygiene items of any kind.

Deadlines

Last date for submission: 11 May 2020

Announcement of results: September 2020

Participant category

Participants can submit their entries in the following categories:

• High school – Students of secondary schools and colleges (tertiary professional schools)
• Unlimited – University students and designers of any age

Category for entries

The entries have to fall into one of the following categories:

• Medicines and pharmaceuticals
• Nutrition supplements (e.g. vitamins, teas)
• Medical supplies, cosmetics (decorative and facial, perfumes, etc.)
• Sanitary supplies (e.g. handkerchiefs, feminine hygiene, diapers).

Design guidelines

• The entrant must submit their artwork as a functional model in a measuring scale of 1:1. The design must be a functional prototy
• The model must be made in high quality, considering the possibility of the artwork being used for representation and exhibition purposes
• The artwork will not return to the competitors and it will remain in the archive of the competition promoter.
• The material used for the artwork must be a polygraphically processible material, standardly used by the company Model Obaly a.s. This includes a whole range of corrugated cardboards, smooth and laminated cardboard. Additional materials can be used as supplementary material.
• A detailed description of the materials and their properties can be found on www.modelgroup.com
• The competitor must not attach any portfolio to their work, only the packaging itself will be included in the evaluation.
• The works submitted in the form of a sketch, on a CD or in a portfolio will be excluded from the evaluation.

Registration

• The competitor should register for the competition via an online form available at young-package.com
• On registration, competitors will receive a code by e-mail which must be written directly onto the work and on the envelope or packaging in which the work will be sent.
• In the case of multiple authors, the work is registered only once; there is space reserved for all authors in the registration form.
• In the case of multiple entries from one author, each entry must be registered separately.

Sending in the design

• The artwork will be accepted if they have previously registered via the online registration form.
• Costs for making of the artwork and postage should be paid by the participant.
• The artwork must be submitted at the post office before the deadline of the competition (decided by the date of the stamp from the post office).
• The artwork is sent to the organizer of the competition: CZECHDESIGN, Vojtěšská 3, 110 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic
• Contestants can also bring the design in person, but only on the closing date between 14:00 and 18:00 at the same address.
• There must be the following declaration for the customs office written on the parcel: This is an item sent to the international competition Model Young Package and its value for customs purposes is a maximum of EUR 10.

Judging criteria

The jury will actively evaluate primarily based on:

• innovation and creativity
• original construction
• functionality
• ergonomic design and easy manipulation (the packaging should work perfectly so that even an older person or child can easily open it)
• ecological aspect
• quality of the prototype

Rewards

Prize money for the Unlimited category

• 1st place : 2000 EUR
• 2nd place : 1200 EUR
• 3rd place : 800 EUR

Prize money for the High Schools category

• 1st place : 1200 EUR
• 2nd place : 600 EUR
• 3rd place : 400 EUR

Special prizes

• The Model Obaly Innovation Center Prize
• The Marketing Jury Prize

For one chosen there is also an incredible opportunity of a paid internship for three weeks in the Model Obaly Innovation Center.

On announcement of results there will be an exhibition of the best works in the Czechdesign Gallery in Prague.

 For further information click here young-package.com

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