European Brand and Packaging Design Association

The EPDA is the leading European network uniting internationally minded designers and agencies who value contact and interaction with peers.

Design Awards

Recreate Packaging

The Recreate Packaging design competition by Stora Enso challenges students and professional designers globally to create new packaging concepts and innovations based on renewable materials. epda has supported Stora Enso as long-term industry partner and is represented in the jury by Renne Angelvuo, Win Win Design.

 

Pentawards

Pentawards was created in 2007 and is a worldwide competition exclusively devoted to packaging design in all its forms. It is open to everybody who is associated with the creation and marketing of packaging. Jean Jacques and Brigitte Evrard, partners in life and in business for more than 35 years, are the founders of Pentawards. They have been epda members from the early beginnings. Click to see the epda Pentawards winners 2014 or Click to see the epda Pentawards winners 2015 or Click to see the epda Pentawards winners 2016.

 

Red Dot Design Award

The origins of the red dot design award go back to 1955. Today it is one of the largest and most coveted design awards in the world. epda has cooperated with the red dot award: communication design for many years. Since 2007 epda members regularly represent the packaging design jury.

 

Brand Identity Grandprix

The Brand Identity GrandPrix has its origin in Italy. It rewards the best projects of brand identity and strategic design projects from the structural perspective of visual communication and is open to Italian as well as to international designers. epda has endorsed the Brand Identity GrandPrix since 2012 and is represented with one design professional in the jury of marketing directors.

 

The Dieline

Created in 2008 the Dieline Awards recognizes the best in consumer product packaging design worldwide. It exists as a way to celebrate innovation and honor excellence in packaging design. An esteemed jury of structural packaging, design, branding, and consumer product experts examine each submission with regards to four key elements: Creativity, Marketability, Innovation, and Execution. Founder Andrew Gibbs has supported the jury of the epda AWARD FUTURE PACKAGING since 2016.

Our Partners