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Student Home | Design Briefs | Timetable | Judging | 2009 Awards Additional Information for Tutors and StudentsBackground InformationTo ensure that each entrant has the same opportunity to explain his or her thinking behind the entry and the steps taken in developing its design, all students will be required to complete a claims form to explain why their pack is a winner. This form will be issued at the time of delivery instructions and must be completed and returned with the pack entry. Pack entries received without the form will be disqualified. Read the Briefs Make sure that the briefs have been thoroughly read and understood by both tutors and students. Every year entries are received which ignore particular requirements that are clearly stated in the briefs. Entries which do not comply with the brief will not be considered. The Awards Gold, Silver, Bronze and Commended Certificates are given to entries which attain the appropriate standard and may be given at the discretion of the judges whose decision shall be final. Sponsoring companies make their own awards dependant on the criteria set and with the guidance of the judges. Sponsors give a wide range of prizes and individual prize details can be found alongside each brief. The Eric Dickens Memorial Award is presented by IOP: The Packaging Society to the college which, in the opinion of the judges, has most effectively promoted education in packaging design, as represented by the quality of its winning students’ entries. Mock-ups and Sample Materials Entries are not only judged visually but structurally as well. The visual must be fully representative of the design and incorporate detailed specifications on size, form and structure. Several of the sponsored award providers are willing to send free sample materials for the production of mock-ups for the awards. A professional approach pays dividends here. If a group of students are all entering the same brief, make sure that only one request goes out to the company and there is sufficient material to allow for disasters! You should also be able to get relevant technical information about production processes, printability, barrier properties etc at the same time and this may be used in the justification for using specific materials in the design report. Where a particular material of construction is specified this should be the principle constituent, although ancillary components or elements may be made of other types of materials. In certain instances, eg where a complex forming process such as injection-stretch blow moulding or can making is involved, it is recognised that students are unlikely to have access to the equipment to produce real samples. In such circumstances mock-up samples, produced in any suitable materials, will be acceptable. The Entry A well-designed 3D mock-up alone will not gain an award. Remember that the judges are also looking for high standards in project research and presentation, design sheets and the specification, as well as innovative and creative ideas in the construction, application and use of the packs. The quality of the actual presentation is judged, taking into account the facilities assumed to be available to students and the initiative used where these are limited. The entrant’s work should be described in a portfolio consisting of three development boards no larger than A3, which must contain a line drawing sufficient to illustrate the method of construction of the package. For example, in the case of a carton, the sheet should show the outline of the carton blank and the positions of the creases and other significant features. In all cases principal dimensions must be shown. It must also include explanatory notes that should include reasons for special features, nominal size or volume of the package expressed in suitable units, method of printing or decoration envisaged, materials to be used and an indication of the type of outer package considered suitable. With a large and growing number of entries to display for judging, it is important to make sure that three development boards, no larger than A3, and mock-ups can be clearly recognised as belonging together. The entry number needs to be placed boldly on the boards and secured firmly but more discreetly on the mock-up. |
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Starpack is co-ordinated by IOP: The Packaging Society (a Division of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining)
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