FAQ

All packaging, or line of packaging, created or placed on the market since 1 January 2009, anywhere in the world.

Everybody (individuals, free-lance people, employees), design or advertising agencies, brand owners, product or packaging producers who can claim the creation and/or the marketing of packaging, anywhere in the world. In fact anyone who is associated with the creation or marketing of packaging.

There are 5 major categories, plus subcategories.
Please find the list of categories here.

Enter your creation in the category that you consider the most suitable. If it should deem it necessary, the jury will assign it to another category or create a specific category for it.

The competition will open on 5 April 2010. 

Entries will be closed on 21 May 2010 at midnight, GMT.

ATTENTION: There will be NO extension of the registration deadline.

The amount payable per entry in a category will be as follows:

EARLY BIRD - €150  from 5 April to 16 April 2010

FULL REGISTRATION - €195  from 17 April to 14 May 2010

LAST CHANCE - €225  from 15 May to 21 May 2010

21 May 2010 will be the very last day.

ATTENTION: There will be NO extension of the registration deadline.

No, only on-line payments by credit card are accepted.

Yes, click below and register by completing the form.
You will be informed of important dates and news about the competition.
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Very easily: on line.
Click here.

The jury is composed of world-renowned experts in packaging design and marketing. They come from Europe, America, and the Asia-Pacific region. As packaging-design experts they will individually judge the works entered in accordance with their relevance and creativity. In the light of the results the organisers and Chairman of the jury will meet to decide on cases of dead heat or other arbitration problems. The members of the jury will have no right to vote for their own creations nor those presented by their own company. The final judgement will be irrevocable.
Click here for the list of jury members.

Because of the different categories and subcategories, the works will be in competition with comparable works. Packaging for drinks will not be compared with packaging for cheese. But cereal packaging will be judged against other cereal packaging.
Here see the list of categories.

Each subcategory will receive awards up to a maximum of three Bronze, two Silver and one Gold Pentaward.
For each of the 5 categories, a Platinum Pentaward will be conferred.
A single and unique Diamond Pentaward (Best of the Show) will be awarded to the best creation, all categories included.
However, the jury reserves the right not to award certain Pentawards if the quality of the entries is not sufficiently high.

The trophies (Gold, Platinum and Diamond Pentawards) will be given out during the official ceremony.

Winners who do not come to pick up their trophy will receive it by courier at their expense. 

They will have to give Pentawards their DHL/FEDEX/UPS or similar customer number.

Certificates will be sent free of charge.

Click here to see the certificates and trophies.

The jury will give its judgement mid August 2010 and the winners will be informed by e-mail by 1 September 2010 at the latest.

Only the winners will be informed in person.

The Pentawards 2010 will be handed out in the European pavilion of the Shanghai Expo on 30 September 2010.

The certificates and the trophies will be sent mid November 2010 at the latest.

Yes, the winners may order additional certificates or trophies.

By clicking HERE.

Press releases will be sent to the principal design, marketing, communication and packaging magazines throughout the world. In addition, the winners of the Gold, Platinum and Diamond Pentawards will be presented here on this site.

Each winner will have the right to communicate personally about his/her Pentaward and may use the Pentawards logo, his/her certificate or trophy as a reference in his/her site or documentation.

Every winning packaging will be presented on this site with a link to the site of the winners next to their creation. 

1. Pentawards awards 5 types of prize (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond).
2. Five, like the 5 fingers of the hand, the most perfect tool of the human being and of the designer in particular…
3. Five, like our 5 senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell).
4. The pentagon is the external and internal form of the pentagram, the ancient and universal symbol of beauty.
5. The pentagon is the original form of the historic centre of Brussels, capital of Belgium and capital of Europe, where the idea of the World Pentawards took shape.

In the Pentawards logo, the white pentagon is the centre of a circle which represents the world.

If you do not find the answer to one of your questions here, ask us directly (only in English) at: question@pentawards.org.
We will do everything we can to reply quickly.