After the Pentawards awards gala was held in Barcelona on September 21, the winners of Pentawards®, the first global competition dedicated to packaging design, are already known.
The prestigious Diamond Pentaward, 2013 Best of Show, went to Family Business (Sweden), for the design of 4.000.000 Absolut Unique bottles.
The Platinum Pentawards, which recognize the best in packaging in five categories, went to:
-Category Beverages: Metaphase Design Group, Inc (USA) for the new Budweiser can in the shape of a bow tie.
-Food Category: Design Bridge (United Kingdom), by Walkers' Tiger Nuts bags (Lays)
-Body Category: Pearlfisher (United Kingdom) for “Strong Nutrients” food supplements.
-Category Other Markets: Studio Kluif (Netherlands) for the packaging of JEROHnimus decorative products.
-Luxury Category: Here Design (United Kingdom) for the wooden box of the whiskey bottle "The Balvernie 50".
The seventh edition of the Pentawards received more than 1400 participants from 49 countries on five continents. The awards received by companies from the United Kingdom stood out, as well as the new countries in the ranking (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Ukraine or Mexico), showing the global vocation of the Pentawards but also the universality of participation and the quality of the works presented.
In addition to the Diamond Pentaward and the 5 Platinum Pentawards, the international jury awarded 45 Gold Pentawards among the 52 categories that competed this year; the Silver and Bronze Pentawards also performed. In total, 32 countries were among the winners.
The 2014 Pentawards gala will be held in Tokyo.
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