Procarton Young Designers Award 2020

Awards and Nominations

The Young Designers Pro Carton Awards champion sustainability, with students asked to create their designs using cartonboard. Cartonboard is a multi-layered fibre derived from wood that is versatile, durable and eco-friendly.

Looking to promote more conscious decision buying, student Gurjit Choda designed plastic-free packaging for Tic Tac mints. Gurjit’s packaging maintained the colour and vibrancy of the classic product, whilst eliminating single-use plastic. Whilst the opaque, recyclable packaging obscures the Tic Tacs,  the recognisable branding ensures that viewing the mints isn’t essential.

Jannah Rahmans’ ‘Kellogg’s Tessellation’ design examines cereal packaging and explores how to make the delivery of the boxes more carbon neutral. “With a simple fold out mechanism to help pouring and portion control, the triangle shaped design will remove the air space at the top of the cereal bag whilst keeping the contents secure.”

With a need to reduce plastic in the packaging industry, Chloe De La Fontaine’s project on Bolt vitamins looks to eliminate the plastic bottles that most vitamins are usually sold in. Drawing inspiration from the product name, Chloe has designed the packaging to reflect a lightning bolt, which in turn, also 'symbolises natural energy, which is what the vitamins provide.’