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Packaging Design Awards & Competitions

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Over the years we found ourselves searching the internet for competitions to submit work for SmashBrand.  What we noticed was the lack of a single source of information for CPG packaging design awards and competitions.

Here is a curated list of packaging design competitions we’ve found over the years, and we hope this helps other agencies, freelancers, and students find and submit their best work.  We are on the judging panel for several of these awards, and it is always inspiring to see the incredible talent from around the world.

We will do our best to keep this list accurate and updated with the latest competitions that we find.  If you see one that we’ve missed and is worth mentioning, please send us an email.

A’ Design Award and Competition

https://competition.adesignaward.com/award-registration.php

iF DESIGN AWARD

https://ifdesign.com/en/

Dieline Awards

https://www.dielineawards.com/

Pentawards

https://pentawards.com/

Paris Packaging Week Innovation Awards

https://www.parispackagingweek.com/en/awards/ 

American Graphic Design Awards

http://contests.gdusa.com/competitions

Davey Awards

https://www.daveyawards.com/

D&AD Next Director Award 

https://www.dandad.org/en/d-ad-awards/

DRIVENxDESIGN Berlin Design Awards:

https://drivenxdesign.com/BRL17/default.asp

DRIVENxDESIGN London Design Awards

https://drivenxdesign.com/LON17/

DRIVENxDESIGN NOW Awards

https://drivenxdesign.com/NOW/default.asp

DRIVENxDESIGN Melbourne Design Awards

https://drivenxdesign.com/mel18/Default.asp

Good Design Australia

https://good-design.org/

The Drum Design Awards

http://www.thedrumdesignawards.com

DRIVENxDESIGN Sydney Design Awards

https://drivenxdesign.com/SYD17/

Hong Kong Design Awards

https://drivenxdesign.com/hkg18/Default.asp

make me! Competition

http://makeme.lodzdesign.com/en/home-page/

European Design Awards

https://europeandesign.org/

D&AD Awards

https://www.dandad.org/en/d-ad-awards/

ADC Annual Awards

http://www.adcawards.org

Communication Arts Illustration Competition

https://www.commarts.com/competition/2019-illustration

TDC Typeface Design Competition

The International Biennale of Graphic Design

https://28.bienalebrno.org

AIGA (re)design awards

http://aigaredesignawards.com/

Creative Circle Awards

http://www.creativecircle.co.uk

Eurobest Awards

https://www.eurobest.com/awards

Latin American Design Awards

http://ladawards.org/

A’ Design Award & Competition

Vega Awards

https://vegaawards.com/

Creativity International Print & Packaging

https://creativityawards.com/

HOW International Design Awards

Communication Arts Typography Competition

https://www.commarts.com/competition/2019-typography

AGDA Design Awards

https://awards.agda.com.au

Estonian Design Awards

https://www.eestidisainiauhinnad.ee/konkurss

D&AD Impact Awards

https://www.dandad.org/en/d-ad-awards/

German Design Award

https://www.german-design-award.com/

Summit Marketing Effectiveness Award

https://summitawards.com/marketing-effectiveness-award/about-mea/

DRIVENxDESIGN GOV Design Awards

https://drivenxdesign.com/GOV17/

ascenders

https://ascenders.tdc.org/

DRIVENxDESIGN New York Design Awards

https://drivenxdesign.com/NYC18/default.asp

Fast Company Innovation By Design Awards

https://www.fastcodesign.com/apply/innovation-by-design

Communication Arts Design Competitions

https://www.commarts.com/competitions

Creativity International Media & Interactive Awards

https://creativityawards.com/

Cannes Lions Awards

Summit Creative Award

https://summitawards.com/summit-creative-awards

Good Design Award

http://www.g-mark.org/

Muse Creative Awards

https://museaward.com/

International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA)

http://www.idsa.org/IDEA

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