This year’s first-place winner was a team of students from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and the second-place winner was a team of students from the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly).
The IMFA Student Competition challenges university packaging students to rethink traditional petroleum-based packaging for real-world products utilizing molded fiber as a more sustainable alternative.
The Better With Less – Design Challenge had an international jury including packaging design experts from various fields related to packaging, design, brand strategy and innovation. After the judging concluded and the finalists chosen, a roundtable panel discussed what they saw as well as the challenges facing the packaging community.
The 10 finalists for the international packaging design competition focus on creative alternatives to plastic packaging. Organized by Metsä Board, the competition was created to find new, environmentally friendly solutions for some of the world’s most frequently used consumer packages.
Amazon, Facebook, Nestlé, Pearlfisher, Heineken, Bulletproof, PepsiCo, Shiseido, Mars Wrigley, Microsoft and Superunion, are just some of the brands unveiled as part of the 2020 Pentawards Jury.
The Better with Less – Design Challenge, organized by Metsä Board, asks designers to create more environmentally friendly packaging solutions for e-commerce, cosmetics and food.
The competition is part of the company's drive to solve one of the biggest challenges in the packaging industry – to reduce the amount of non-recyclable waste that is generated every day.
The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) today shared several current trends in folding carton and rigid box design, as distilled from the recently adjudicated 2017 North American Paperboard Packaging Competition.
