TheDieline.com: Package Design

Submit Your Packaging to The Dieline

Want to submit your work for consideration to The Dieline, the most visited website on Package Design in the world?

Here's how:

Simply email us your work as an attachment to info@thedieline.com. Make sure images are a minimum 550 px wide (larger sized images are great too!). Be sure to include a description of the project and any relevant background information. All work emailed will be reviewed, and if we think it is a good fit, it will be added to the site.

Good luck!

Masters in Branding Program at SVA

The School of Visual Arts has just launched a brand new one year degree program offering a Masters of Professional Studies in Branding! This is the first program of its kind in the United States and offers students an extraordinary opportunity to study with some of the most accomplished branding experts working today. Lead by Debbie Millman of Sterling Brands, and co-founded by Steven Heller, the program will explore how culture, behavior, business, commerce and creativity impact the world we now live in.

Brands do more than they ever have before: they signify beliefs and affiliations and they define and telegraph personal choice. The program will open its doors this Saturday, November 7th for an Information Session, where you can learn about the program and meet faculty. For more information, click here.

This post sponsored by SVA, the School of Visual Arts.

Announcing: The Dieline Awards

TheDieline.com, The World's Leading Package Design Website, Launches The Dieline Awards, an International Design Competition Recognizing the World's Best Package Design:

• The first ever Dieline Awards, an international design competition recognizing best in package design, will be awarded in partnership with the FUSE Conference 2010!

• The official awards ceremony will be held at the FUSE Conference on April 14th, 2010, at Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago.

• 30 winners across 10 different categories will be awarded a prestegious Dieline Award, and one Best of Show winner will be chosen.

• The awards will be judged by a highly esteemed panel of 10 industry experts, and awarded based on quality of design. Debbie Millman, President of the AIGA and President of Design at Sterling Brands, will be the chairman of the judges, casting a tie-breaking vote in case of a tie.

• The top 10 winners and best of show winner will recieve a prize package worth over $4500, including the powerful Strata 3D CX Suite.

• A showcase of all award winning packaging designs will be opened at the show shortly after the winners are announced, and all winners will be featured in detail on The Dieline.

• Entry fees are $95 for the 1st entry, and $55 for each additional entry. There is also a discounted rate for student projects, $55 for each entry.
 
• All entries due by Monday Dec 21st, 2009.

For More Information and to enter the competition, visit TheDielineAwards.com. Good Luck!

First Look: Box Bottle Bag! Preorder today!

Box Bottle Bag is almost here! Here the very first look at the cover design! Over a year in the making, we have collected the best of the best from the blog, along with many never before seen projects, into the ultimate collection of the world's best packaging design. The book is hardcover with a matte varnish, the letters are diecut, and the barcode has a glossy spot varnish. I can't wait to hold it in my hands!

Box Bottle Bag is available for preorder for only $23.10 from Amazon, and ships early March.

Preorder your copy today!

Package Design Agency Directory Updated

Our Package Design Agency Directory, the first, and most comprehensive directory of package design agencies online, has just been updated. Over 200+ design firms have been added to the list!

Check it out!

The Dieline on Twitter

Just in case you don't already know, The Dieline is on Twitter! Be sure to follow us to stay up to date with the website, newest posts, news, and the latest packaging related tweets and discussions!

Strata Enfold 3D CX

 

Strata, our newest sponsor, has just launced The Strata 3D CX Suite, and has teamed with Esko Artwork and has just launched an innovative software package for package designers, Strate Enfold 3D CX:

"Strata Enfold 3D CX is a multi-featured plug-in for Illustrator that adds a 3D view palette, two new tools and a host of menu commands focused on folding print designs.

Powered by patent-pending technology developed by EskoArtwork, Strata Enfold 3D CX creates professional folded 3D designs directly in Adobe Illustrator. Users can link Photoshop graphics applied to 2D Illustrator artwork, define die-cut lines and folding scores, and then see it in 3D directly in Illustrator. Print ready designs can then be sent for production and the file can be exported for further use in Strata Design 3D CX or other products that can import a U3D file.

“The package design market understands that the best packaging comes from interaction between product and packaging designers,” explains Arjen Maarleveld, EskoArtwork Senior Vice President Products. “The new open interface to the Strata structural format now makes our solutions accessible to designers who work with Strata tools. Strata Enfold 3D CX makes available high powered EskoArtwork technology to a much broader market.”

“Never in our history have we been so proud of a software release,” states Ken Bringhurst, Strata’s President. “This powerful new workflow between Strata Design 3D CX and Adobe’s design products is a giant leap forward for our installed base. This upgrade reinforces Strata’s position as the best 3D solution for the design and illustration market.”

Download a tryout version to see what it can do for you over on Strata3D.com

Only 4 more days to enter the Pentawards!

Just a friendly reminder, the deadline to enter the 2009 Pentawards is friday! 

The Dieline is proud to be an official sponsor of the Pentawrds! All 2009 Pentawards winners will be published exclusively on the dedicated Pentawards blog here on The Dieline.

About Pentawards:

Pentawards is the first and only worldwide competition exclusively devoted to packaging design in all its forms. It is open to everybody in all countries who are associated with the creation and marketing of packaging. The winners will receive bronze, silver, gold, platinum or diamond Pentawards according to the creative quality of their work.

Packaging design from the world over created or brought out in 2008 will be judged by a likewise international jury that will select the winners in accordance with the creative quality of the work submitted.

Apart from prize-giving, Pentawards' mission is the promotion of packaging design with companies, the press, the economic and political authorities and the public in general, throughout the world.

By participating in Pentawards, you will have the opportunity of comparing your creations with others from all over the world, and you will have the possibility of winning a prestigious award which will allow you to demonstrate your creativity and expertise.

Click here for all the details on entering your work.