The winners have impressed the professional jury with innovative and highly attractive packaging solutions, addressing at the same time topical issues such as reuse and sustainability. A more detailed description of the winning packs is listed below. The organiser of the competition is the Swedish aluminium packaging organisation Packalu Sweden, in cooperation with the Packaging Group of the European Aluminium Association.
The Swedish Aluminium Packaging Design Award is a design competition aiming at promoting aluminium consumer packaging in general by focusing in particular on important criteria such as innovation and sustainability. The future of the aluminium packaging sector in the Nordic region largely depends on bringing new and attractive designs to the market which also meet the highest environmental criteria.
The target group consists of industrial designers as well as art designers and schools. A professional jury evaluates the contributions according to innovation, sustainability and design.
The chairman of the jury in the 2007 edition is Tom Hedqvist, director of the leading, Stockholm based Beckman School of Industrial Design.
The prize
The winner of the competition receives a prize of 25000 SEK while the second and third places each receive a prize of 5000 SEK. - Contribution Gingerbread
- Designer Thomas Åkerfelt och Juho Viironen, Finland
- Jury statement
The gingerbread packaged in an airtight container, which at the same time works as a form when making the cookies is a dream for the person with a limit in time. An attractive and graphically pregnant solution that probably never has to be recycled.
The end has come for barbebeque grills that end up in nature. Green Grill solves the handling problems that are connected to makeshift BBQ such as burns, but more important than this, it is made of 100 % aluminium, which makes it recyclable. In addition Green Grill is a dream for every graphic designer because there is a lot of space for communication.
Rseal could be the solution to a classic problem namely how one can save the goodies in the aluminium can for later. The PET bottle has won terrain but with RSEAL the resealeble can has seen daylight though this elegant technical solution
European Aluminium Association, founded in 1981, represents the European Aluminium Industry from alumina and primary production to semi finished and end use products, through to recycling. About 16% of all aluminium goes into packaging products, such as beverage cans, food and aerosol cans, menu trays and other foil products such as wrappings, and bin and flexible foil applications. They EAA packaging group represents the main producers of aluminium and can foil sheet and promotes the use and recycling of aluminium packaging throughout Europe, by working closely together with National packaging and recovery/recycling organisations, customer groups and other key stakeholders, such as Local Authorities NGO’s and consumer groups. The European Aluminium Industry directly employees 236,000 people. For more information please contact
Aluminiumriket Sverige
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