Taipei, TAIWAN — A few days to go until the Golden Pin Design Award (GPDA) closes its 2021 call for entries!
As one of the iconic annual design awards in Asia, the GPDA is a golden opportunity for companies, design teams, and individuals from all around the globe to demonstrate design excellence in Taiwan, Asia, and beyond. This year, since it opened for submissions in April, the organizer has received thousands of entries from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Germany, Canada, South Korea, Poland, the United States, and Vietnam. Among these entrants are global brands or big name corporations and design agencies in Asia.
Good news: epda President Uwe Melichar will be one of the jury members judging packaging design.
epda Members, if you are interested in submitting an entry free of charge – contact us immediately. We can provide you with a code entitling you to submit your work for free. You have to enter the code to register HERE. Deadline for entries is 5:00 p.m., Thursday, July 15th (GMT+8 Taipei).
Here are some great entries to get inspired ..
Thinkk & SHOOT digital camera
- Category: Product Design
- Country/region: Taiwan
- Design Company: Paper Shoot Technologies Inc. & Thinkk studio (Thailand)
The design concept goes beyond the restrictions and the competing of traditional digital cameras’ specification-oriented focus; instead, it combines Taiwan’s advantages in electron optics, and Thailand’s craft designs to create the idea of “a camera no one has ever seen before”, and producing a design-oriented and environmentally-friendly camera. It uses teak as the material for the motherboard, and utilizes magnets to easily change and replace the frontal board with Thailand’s local natural-material-made and hand-crafted frontal boards.
Nibbo Bean to Bar Chocolate Packaging Design
- Category: Product Design
- Country/region: Taiwan
- Design Company: Paper Shoot Technologies Inc. & Thinkk studio (Thailand)
The design concept goes beyond the restrictions and the competing of traditional digital cameras’ specification-oriented focus; instead, it combines Taiwan’s advantages in electron optics, and Thailand’s craft designs to create the idea of “a camera no one has ever seen before”, and producing a design-oriented and environmentally-friendly camera. It uses teak as the material for the motherboard, and utilizes magnets to easily change and replace the frontal board with Thailand’s local natural-material-made and hand-crafted frontal boards.
Dali Tea Packaging Design
- Category: Communication Design
- Country/region: China
- Design Company: Linshaobin design
- Client: Dali Tea
Dali mixed tea is a tea brand made from a variety of teas. Unlike conventional tea packages, it deconstructs and reconstructs the Chinese character of “tea” across brand identity, visual, and packaging. Along with creative tea drink, this tea set provides a lively and diverse image for younger consumers, who love tea culture and like to make tea by themselves.
