Young designers under 30 and college, university and secondary students have until 24 March 2009 to submit a package or paper utility item design using cardboard or corrugated board, possibly in combination with a complimentary material.

Background

In its 13-year history, the Young Package has established itself as an internationally recognised competition. Its objective has always been to offer a competitive field on which young designers from different regions could meet. That field is defined by the material that the entrants use, i.e. cardboard and corrugated board.

If approached with creativity, "packaging" can be interpreted in an infinite number of ways. In construction, shape, surface finish treatment, graphic design and information provided, packaging may provide for functional product protection, but it may also carry socially and philosophically provocative ideas.

The word "young" in the name of the competition is meant to tell the participants that they are to come up with entries that are novel, imaginative, ambitious, serious, funny or satirical, because success in the competition may get them off to a flying start.

Complementary theme

To design a package or a utility item of paper (cardboard or corrugated board, possibly in combination with a complementary material) of the designer's choice for senior citizens or retirees, approached very seriously with a hint of gentle humour and hyperbole. The best designs from the complementary theme category will be entered into the Design for Golden Age project (design for senior citizens).

Entrants

Young designers under 30
College and university students
Secondary school students

Evaluation criteria

The submissions will be evaluated based on: conceptual approach, creativity, original shape and idea, inventiveness in construction, functionality, environmental aspects, social dimension and good quality of both graphical and textual presentations.

Deadline

The entries that meet the conditions for the entry into the competition must be delivered to Antipol Brno address by 16:00 on 24 March 2009, or must be posted by the same time and date at the post office.

Entries not awarded any prize can be claimed, by prior arrangement, in the Antipol company Brno office by 30 June 2009.

Jury

The jury will be nominated before 31 January 2009 and be posted on the web sites of the Slovak Design Centre and Design Cabinet CZ.

Awards

The top three entrants in each category will receive a diploma. The winner of the Young designer under 30 category will receive the cash prize of 25,000 CZK, the winner in University and College Students category will receive 20,000 CZK (and his/her school 5,000 CZK), the winner of the Secondary Schools category will receive 15,000 CZK (and his/her school 5,000 CZK).

Model Obaly a.s. Comp. will select one of the awarded entrants for a placement in its construction department in July or August 2009, inclusive of accommodation and meals.

On the jury's recommendation, representatives of In-Store Marketing magazine may award a special prize valued at 5,000 CZK.

A special prize will also be awarded to one of the entrants by the Slovak Design Centre.

Announcement of results

The ceremonious announcement of the results and an exhibition of the best entries will take place at the EmbaxPrint Trade Fair held on 19-22 May 2009 at the Brno Exhibition Centre (the exact date will be announced later).

Presentation of competition results

Information on results of the competition will be published by partner media in the Czech Republic and abroad, and in July 2009 it will also be posted on the web pages of the Slovak Design Centre. Exhibitions of awarded and other selected competition entries will be held, and a catalogue and a CD ROM will be published and sent to all participating schools and designers competing in the "young designers under 30" category.

Organisers

The competition is organised in cooperation with the Slovak Design Center, the Design Cabinet CZ of the Architecture & Building Foundation in Prague and the competition's expert guarantors.

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For more information, please contact:

Antipol Brno, spol. s.r.o., Maříkova 1
621 00 Brno
Czech Republic
(Attn. Ing. Miriam Šebková),
T: +420 603 162 854
F: +420 541 229 076
E: / antipol@antipol.cz

Slovenské centrum dizajnu (Slovak Design Center)
Jakubovo nám. 12
814 99 Bratislava
Slovak Republic
(Attn. RNDr. Margita Michlíková)
T: +421 252 931 523
F: +421 252 931 838
E:
W: www.sdc.sk