Design circular packaging
Urban consumers can shop necessities in retail stores and buy takeaway food easily, and that makes packaging part of our everyday life. Packaging gives protection as well as brand differentiation and quality perception for the product inside, which is essential for usability, food safety and consumer experience. Using renewable materials, removing or reducing plastic, and designing for recycling help lessen the environmental impact of packaging and in turn create value and make people happy about more eco-friendly choices.
Now we are challenging you to design the next generation of renewable and circular packaging!
How to get started
Your task is to create a packaging solution that reduces or removes fossil-based materials in food packaging or other consumer packaging by using our renewable paperboard materials innovatively. Use the following as food for thought to kickstart your creative process:
- Think of the everyday situations where you’ve been bothered by a packaging design, where your inner designer has stopped you in your tracks to examine a product.
- Think of the unnecessary additions or features to packaging designs and the changes you would make to improve them, to simplify them or to reduce the amount of plastic.
- Think of how the shape and functionality could be reconstructed in order to refine both its material use and its ease-of-use.
- Think of how to improve the overall design in order to make it more recyclable and to enable better and more advised recycling among consumers.
- Think of the story you want to convey with your concept, how it will affect the consumer in a positive way and in turn the brand as well.
Lastly, think outside the box! And remember that whatever direction you take, your goal is to reduce waste and to increase circularity of packaging.
Keep in mind that in the first phase you will be presenting your ideas and concepts digitally. However, don’t focus solely on the digital presentation, as your idea also needs to translate into a working packaging solution to be considered for selection. We recommend focusing on the concept, form and function of the packaging rather than on graphic design.
All contestants should be able to account for their entries from a sustainability point of view and state which considerations have been made to make the packaging more sustainable, or how the packaging promotes sustainable behaviour.
For legal reasons, you’re not allowed to feature an existing brand in your design. If you want to include a brand in your design, please design one yourself or use imagery with a free for use creative commons license.
Up for the challenge?
Register to the competition now and start creating your digital entry.