The international competition Young Package is for designers and this year also for creators of comics who have not reached 31 years of age. You can win €750 in one of the two categories of the 15th annual competition: Package for Sweets or Comics. The first category relates to product packaging, the second offers a fresh look at what a package could be. The competition was founded to invite students and creative people up to 30 years of age, and challenge them to create designs of corrugated and smooth cardboard as used in the sponsor’s packaging design.

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As a further part of its investigation into the role of the designer in our product-rich society, 5.5 Designers challenges you to design a pair of frames whilst making an in-depth examination of the entire product life cycle. Think outside the box and don’t just concentrate on the stylistic approach. Tell the frame’s story: anticipate the high points of its existence, from its gestation (when it is designed), birth (the manufacturing process), childhood (how it is marketed), the highlights of its life (its usage) until its death, and after… This contemporary theme should allow future designers to highlight their specific skills, in stylistic terms of course, but also their ability to anticipate as well as their capacity to question and revisit the elements that make up the product in all its dimensions. The quality of this holistic vision and the reasoning behind the design propositions for the projects will be a key element in the Jury’s evaluation and selection.

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The creator of Social Designer, Felissimo is a subscription based clothing and household goods company from Japan who believes that good design promotes happiness, well-being, and adds value to everyday life. The 500 Colored Pencils product introduces their subscription model to the world. Create a video of up to 1-minute in length that shows or tells the story of something you believe is worth waiting for, or, from experience, something you had to wait for that was worth it in the end! IntroductionEvery month a set of 25 pencils is delivered to the purchaser; like a gift that reveals itself slowly over time, the full set of pencils is acquired over a period of 20 months. For every 100 boxes of pencils sent to subscribers Felissimo donates one set to the UNESCO/Tribute 21 DREAM Center initiative, an arts education program run by Felissimo and UNESCO to empower under-privileged children around the world through creative expression. This is the sixth in a series of competitions related to 500 Colored Pencils.

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