Announcing The Dieline Awards 2017 Outstanding Achievements
by Natalie Mouradian on 05/15/2017 | 7 Minute Read
Every year The Dieline Awards bring us the best in packaging design. Choosing just three winners in every category is nearly impossible—so we decided to give a few shoutouts to The Dieline Awards 2017 Merit Winners. Take a look at these amazing projects that earned outstanding achievements this year.
Fresh Food
EAT PAK’D KIDS’ LUNCHES STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Anthem Worldwide
EatPak'd was created to provide kids with well-balanced school lunch meals by delivering fresh and nutritious lunches directly to doorstops. Anthem partnered with EatPak’d to develop custom structural packaging for their official launch in 2016.
Prepared Food
Day_TM Energy Bars
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To name this daily snack we simply trademarked the time-span of its use: 'Day-TM' registers as a hip and easy to remember formula. Energy bars look like quasi anarchist clusters of materials (dried fruit, nuts, cereals) or abstract mosaics and this served as our main graphic inspiration.
Dairy, Spices, Oils, Sauces, & Condiments
Lanitis Fresh Milk
Beetroot Design Group
Every day starts with a glass of milk and we all write our day upon this very breakfast, like a blank page, where everyone can write their stories.
Confectionary, Snacks
Smashmallow
Hatch Design
Jon Sebastiani came to Hatch to launch a treat to indulge his inner sweet tooth without the calories or fat - a snacking marshmallow. While a healthy lifestyle is becoming the lifestyle de jour, sweet tooths are still calling out to be satisfied in a more natural way.
Non-Alcoholic Beverages
HONOUR Essentials Coffee
KNOCK, inc.
Living well in the modern world doesn’t have to come at the expense of our planet. To significantly reduce waste, we went beyond sourcing eco-friendly materials to build heirloom-quality pieces that are indispensably beautiful and unforgettable.
Beer, Malt, Beverages, Tobacco & Cannabis
The Mt. Pleasant Series
Resonance
R&B Brewing, Vancouver’s original brewery of high quality, hand-crafted ales and lagers engaged Resonance to create labels for its Mt. Pleasant Series.
Wine & Champagne
Amber
Rong
Amber is a premium gift packaging for traditional Hua Diao wine.
Hua Diao, is a fermented yellow rice wine. Through the time catalysis and brewing, it resembles the amber in its golden color.
Spirits
Italicus
Stranger & Stranger
When a product is described as being based on a century old Italian recipe that was the drink of kings; that the ingredients are all grown, harvested and expertly crafted in Italy, then visually it needs to say that it’s a sip of Italy.
Health, Cosmetics, Fragrance
The Give-A-Care Collection
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For years, campaigns have spoken to women about the prevention and detection of breast cancer. But what do you say to a woman who has just been diagnosed?
Personal Care
Neoderma Skin Care
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Our client has a successful cosmetics line named Neoderma. We decided to develop a brand language which would last for a long time and reach a different audience.
Home, Garden, & Pets
Purina Beyond E-Commerce
CBA North America
With the sale of online pet food sales growing rapidly year-over-year, Purina Beyond saw an opportunity to connect with their consumers online and better support their evolving purchasing needs.
Games, Toys, Sports, & Recreational
Fjallraven - Bergtagen Base Layer
Packground & Fjallraven
Packground was commissioned by Fjallraven to design a premium base layer packaging for their 2017 launch of the unique Bergtagen garment system for mountaineering activities.
Technology, Media, Office, & Self-Promotion
Hololens Packaging
Microsoft
The Hololens Kit is a product in the whole new category of virtual reality. The protection requirements of the uber-sensitive lenses meant that we used a durable hard case.
Private Label
Thrive Market Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Thrive Market
Thrive Market Private Label Extra Virgin Olive Oil is a single-source, extra virgin olive oil harvested and bottled on a single estate in Western Crete, and packaged in a 25.4 oz aluminum bottle.
Luxury
Fortnum & Mason International Honey
Design Bridge
For Fortnum & Mason’s International honey range, we collaborated with designer Coralie Bickford-Smith to help us make each honey label like the cover of a book.
Limited Edition
Bulleit Bourbon Lewis Bag
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This no-nonsense Kentucky whiskey needed a pack that would look disruptive on shelf but still suited its straight-talking attitude. Inspired by the brand’s historic roots, we created a hessian cloth Lewis bag with triple-stitched seams and industrial sized magnetic rivets which help retain Bulleit’s distinct bottle shape.
Student Category
Basis
Daniel Lindqvist - Academy of Art University
Basis believes in developing environmentally responsible formulas without making any compromises to the quality of their soaps and polishes. Basis’ mission is to ensure woodwork a long life.
Concept
Kids Space
Springetts Brand Design
Children's rooms are often the most redecorated, but all cans are designed for adults. We created a range of paints targeted at children and adults, to make painting children's rooms fun.