[dropcaps style=’2′]The 2018 Pentawards, the worldwide packaging design awards, will be taking place at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on 6 September 2018. The last date for the regular registration is 25 February 2018.[/dropcaps]

The awards are open for all packaging, or lines of packaging, created or released to market anywhere in the world after 1 January 2017. All works submitted must have been created or produced or launched after 1 January 2017, in any country. A physical package must be available before 1 June 2018 (except for Concept categories).

One can enter the concept category by designing a packaging solution for an exciting company or just as a pure concept. The work must be original and not previously marketed or created. Anyone (individuals, free-lance contractors, employees), design or advertising agencies, brand owners, product or packaging producers (students for Concept categories) who can claim the creation and/or the marketing of packaging, anywhere in the world can enter the competition.

There are 6 categories (and 55 subcategories)
1. Beverages
2. Food
3. Body
4. Other markets
5. Luxury
6. Sustainable Design