The 19th Young Package awards open for entries on March 14. The competition, for young designers up to 30 years of age, has been promoted by Model Obaly, one of the largest package manufacturers in the Czech Republic, since 1996.
The theme is Take Away, but that doesn't limit its scope to fast food. The competition is looking for creative packaging that is carried – plus original and functional at the same time. Perhaps it might be the means to carry things from shop to home that is also used as wrapping paper? An ingenious carrier for six bottles of beer? Or clever package for a fragile vase.
Work may be registered in two groups:
1. University students and young designers up to 30 years of age
2. High school students.
The winner of the first group will receive 1100 € and one of the winners will be chosen for three weeks paid internship in one of Model Obaly's innovation centres.
Model Obaly is part of the Swiss group Model-Holding with factories and sales offices in eight European countries and blue chip clients like Kraft Foods, Lego, SCA, Teva, Opavia-LU, Nestle and Mars.
Work will be judged on innovativeness and creativity, package ergonomics, functionality, easy manipulation, environmental aspects, shape and originality of the idea, constructional imaginativeness, quality presentation.
Participants need to submit their entries in the form of a full-scale functional model. This means that it must be a functional mock-up; if it is designed to open, it must open. The model must be of high quality, with regard to potential representational and exhibition purposes.
Material used must be able to be polygraphically processed and of the type used by Model Obaly Corrugated cardboard, smooth and mock-up board are primary mateirals. Model Obaly also uses polypropylene films, further printed and formed, and packaging made of a smooth cardboard.A detailed description of materials and their properties is accessible at the online registration page.
