ABOUT DIELINE AWARDS

Where Packaging Legends Are Born: DIELINE Awards IS the premiere competition to gain global recognition for OUTSTANDING packaging design.

For the 2024 competition, DIELINE Awards have partnered with LUXE PACK, the premiere trade show for creative packaging. LUXE PACK’s must-attend conferences are a central hub and gathering place for the packaging design community. DIELINE Awards 2024 winners will be announced and exhibited at LUXE PACK New York on May 8th, 2024. All winners will also be announced on DIELINE, the world’s leading website for consumer packaging design and branding.

For the past 15 years DIELINE Awards have formally recognized the absolute best in packaging design worldwide, bringing awareness to the immense value of well-designed brand packaging. Brand owners, consumers, marketers, agencies, designers, in-house creatives, students, and enthusiasts around the world turn to DIELINE Awards as the industry-wide benchmark of impeccably-designed packaging for consumer products.

DIELINE is the world’s leading website dedicated to the global packaging design community. With over 7 million unique pageviews per year, it offers DIELINE winners unrivaled exposure opportunities to our global audience of practitioners, potential clients, brands, media, business stakeholders, and beyond.

Every submission is judged by an esteemed jury of category-specific experts according to five key elements: Creativity, Marketability, Innovation, Execution, and On-Pack Branding.

WHAT’S NEW FOR 2024

• For 2024, DIELINE Awards introduces the Super Early Bird Rate, a new Early-entry period to enter DIELINE Award that features our lowest entry fee in years. Get your entries in early to save.

• For the 2024 competition, DIELINE introduces DIELINE Awards Concept, a dedicated and lower cost-to-enter Concept category with 28 distinct sub-categories for both Concept and Student work. Winners of DIELINE Awards Concept 2024 will be announced online in Q2 2024.

• A total of 33 Concept Winners will be recognized including Concept Best of Show, Concept Editor's Choice, and Best of Concept 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place.

• An all new DIELINE Awards Concept trophy has been introduced exclusively for Concept Winners.

PAST HIGHLIGHTS

• In 2023, DIELINE Awards introduced the Brand Partnerships and Collaborations Category: The Brand Partnerships and Collaboration category is for any two brands who have partnered and developed a packaging and branding system in the last year.

• In 2023, DIELINE Awards introduced the Startup Brands Category: The Startup Brand category is for any new to market brand and packaging developed within the last year.

• For 2022, DIELINE reimagined the competition by welcoming new categories, including In-House, Visual Brand Identity, and Private Label, refining existing divisions, and introducing our largest jury ever. Also, for the first time in the history of the awards, judging was grouped by category, with experts in each division judging the respective work.

• In 2021, DIELINE introduced the Design For Good Award. Entry is open to any packaging consumer products designed for doing a good that emphasizes positivity, kindness, and giving back with an overall mission of lifting up humankind.

• In 2020, DIELINE Awards partnered with Designalytics who provides the industry's first system for maximizing design-driven brand growth. With our partnership, DIELINE Awards is the only design competition to recognize a winner based on actual retail sales data.

• In 2019, DIELINE partnered with A Plastic Planet to launch the world’s first Plastic Free Award for sustainable, plastic-free packaging. Together, it is our goal to recognize the innovation and efforts of designers for creating the ideas and solutions of tomorrow, today.

About DIELINE

Established in 2007 by Andrew Gibbs, DIELINE has become the leading media brand for consumer packaging and consumer brands. Dieline is committed to supporting the advancement of the package design industry in all its forms.

Our website began as a platform for the industry to share design innovation and creativity through original editorial content and reader-submitted projects. Our platform grew to include DIELINE Awards, our global package design competition, and DIELINE Conference, our annual package design event. 

DIELINE is the world’s most visited packaging design website, and it highlights the importance and value of packaging design for brands in today’s world. In 2018, DIELINE evolved into a creative platform for package designers, brand designers, consumer brands, agencies, suppliers, sustainability experts, students, and packaging manufacturers. 

DIELINE’s core focus is to build a global community of packaging designers and to advocate the packaging industry towards more sustainable solutions through creativity and innovation.