Blue Marlin is delighted to announce that it has picked up one silver and three bronze Pentawards including its seventh award for its much loved design for mineral water brand Isklar. The Pentawards is the only worldwide competition devoted exclusively to packaging design. The presentation took place during the Shanghai Expo in China on October 1.
festivals and competitions
Casa Rex, one of Brazil’s most creative and renowned design agencies with operational bases in São Paulo and London, has just won a Pentaward — the biggest global on-line award exclusively dedicated to excellence in packaging design.
For the second consecutive year, the Pentawards has selected a packaging design developed by Casa Rex (following on from the Lux Soft Skin Global platform last year), which was amongst 854 entries received from 39 countries. This time, the design created for the Skip Perfect Black I Skip Perfect White range for Unilever Argentina, was chosen.
To help Canadians take fibre to new flavour frontiers, Kellogg’s All-Bran ready-to-eat cereals brand has enlisted the aid of Jewels and Jill Elmore, personal chefs to Hollywood A-listers, to showcase the versatility of the highly nutritious product and encourage Canadians to enter the “One Million Ways to Eat Kellogg’s All-Bran Recipe Contest.”
International brand design agency, Design Bridge, has received the special Agency of the Year Pentaward, as well as picking up three Silver awards for its designs for Marqués de Riscal, Kapiti and Sominex, and a Bronze award for Vitalis. The Agency of the Year honour is awarded to Design Bridge for having won the largest number of Pentawards in three consecutive years, placing it well ahead of its competitors.
Vivienne Westwood Anglomania and Lee Jeans are encouraging public from around the globe to demonstrate various ways to resist some of the most unpleasant aspects of our world. The brands have teamed up to launch an online project, “100 Days of Active Resistance,” to invite people from different parts of the world to share photos, which mirror the core concept of the initiative—demonstration of the ability to see below the surface, understand what’s going around and face up to problems.
With only three months left before 2011, global companies are gearing up for creating calendars for the upcoming year. While some brands invite celebrity photographers to shoot and movie stars to be featured in their calendar editions, New Balance Germany decided to crowdsource this job, inviting creative talents to contribute to the brand’s new SNKRlendar.