This award honours original, innovative, and high-quality packaging. This could include but is not limited to:

Consumer Goods Packaging
Packaging for food, beverages, cosmetics, fashion, electronics, and other retail products.

Luxury & Premium Packaging
High-end packaging solutions that emphasise craftsmanship, exclusivity, and premium materials

Sustainable & Eco-Friendly Packaging
Innovative designs that reduce environmental impact

Structural & Engineering Innovation
Unique forms, dielines, and structural designs that enhance product presentation, usability, and protection.

Limited Edition & Collectible Packaging
Special edition packaging with artistic, cultural, or collectible value.

Retail & E-commerce Packaging
Packaging solutions designed for in-store displays or direct-to-consumer shipping.

Technology-Integrated Packaging
Smart packaging incorporating interactive elements such as NFC, AR/VR, QR codes, or track-and-trace features.

Experimental & Conceptual Packaging
Forward-thinking, speculative, or research-driven packaging designs.

Social, Political & Cultural Messaging in Packaging
Designs that use packaging as a medium for awareness, activism, or cultural storytelling.

All forms of packaging design are welcome in this category.

You.

If you produce creative work, whether alone or as part of a team, this is for you. If you commission creative work and want to celebrate it, this is for you.

Freelancers, students, studios, small agencies, huge agencies, collectives, creative organisations, ambitious businesses, unofficial groups, weirdos, creatives, designers, strategists, animators, motion designers, digital makers, architects, coders, illustrators, artists, project managers, photographers, tattooists, creative thinkers and chancers.

1. View the categories and select the ones you’d like to submit your project to.
2. Enter your project(s) by the 8th August 2025.
3. After creating an account, you can save, edit, and submit entries until the deadline.
4. Projects will meet the jury on the 11th August 2025.
5. Find out via email if your work will be recognised with an International Creative Award on the 12th September 2025.
6. Order your trophy and claim your award.
7. Celebrate your achievement at the Awards Ceremony during International Assembly in Scotland this November 2025 (optional).
8. Selected projects will be showcased during International Assembly, across social media and INTL channels.

All winners will receive an International Creative Award, a bespoke handcrafted trophy, a digital certificate, and an exclusive digital awards pack.

Winners are invited to attend the Awards Ceremony in Scotland this November 2025 to collect their trophy and celebrate their achievement. Selected projects will be showcased at the International Assembly festival and featured across social media and INTL channels.

Mike McVicar and Katie Levy, Gander

Céline Lamée, Design Director at LAVA Beijing

Justin Lortie, Founder and Design Director at Wedge

1. Title of Project
2. Short Summary of Project (50 words max)
3. Longer Description of Project (300 words max)
4. Upload (max 10) images/videos/files etc which showcases your project. This could be photographs, digital images, drawings, moving image etc. A range of file formats, links, URL’s are accepted.
5. Project Credits

We try to keep the entry process as efficient as possible.