DIELINE Awards 2027
DIELINE Awards 2027 is now open for entries!
Competition Details
Brief Overview
The DIELINE Awards 2027 invite designers, agencies, brands and students worldwide to submit outstanding consumer packaging and brand design, exploring how visual identity, materials, functionality and sustainable thinking can shape the products and experiences of everyday life.
Competition Details
The DIELINE Awards 2027, organised by Dieline Media LLC, celebrate excellence in consumer packaging and consumer packaged goods (CPG) design , bringing together the work of international agencies, independent studios, in-house teams, emerging brands and the next generation of designers.
Established in 2010, the competition explores packaging as a meeting point between creative expression, commercial relevance and environmental responsibility, recognising the ideas, visual systems and material choices that help products communicate with people.
Entries span food, beverages, health, beauty, personal care and home products, alongside specialist areas such as brand identity systems, luxury, sustainable design, plastic-free innovation and design for good, while a dedicated Concept & Student track welcomes speculative and unproduced ideas.
The 2027 programme broadens its scope through new areas addressing immersive brand experiences, functional innovation and accessibility, retail and merchandising systems, connected packaging, and circular, refill and reuse solutions, reflecting the changing ways packaging is designed, used and experienced.
An international jury assesses projects on creativity, marketability, innovation, execution and on-pack branding, with entries closing on 26 February 2027 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time and winners announced in spring 2027.
Submission requirements
Participants must complete the official online entry form, providing the project name, company or agency name, a short project description, contact details and a website address where available.
Projects should be presented through photographs or digital renders of the packaging, uploaded as JPG or PNG files in RGB colour, up to 15 MB per image; the first image should offer the strongest overall representation of the work.
Eligible projects must have been created, produced or launched between 1 January 2026 and 26 February 2027. Commercial work belongs in the relevant professional categories, while student projects, concepts, speculative proposals and unpublished prototypes must be entered in the appropriate Concept & Student track.
The same project may be entered in several categories, with a separate fee for each. No physical samples are required initially, but winners will be asked to supply samples for the winner showcase.
Eligibility
Open worldwide to individual designers, studios, agencies, in-house teams, brands and students; students enter through the dedicated Concept & Student track.
Benefits
Winning projects receive international exposure on theDIELINE.com, inclusion in the DIELINE Winner Showcase and promotion through the awards’ social media and global press activities, helping their creators reach designers, brands and packaging industry professionals.
Winners also receive a custom digital winner seal for promoting their awarded project, and publication in the digital DIELINE Awards Annual and the winners archive provides further visibility for the recognised work.
Through the official partnership with iF, DIELINE Award winners receive free entry to the iF DESIGN AWARD 2027 and automatic advancement to its second jury round, as stated by the organiser.
Additional honours include Best of Show, Studio of the Year and Editor’s Choice, alongside category recognition and specialist awards. The physical trophy, designed by Jones Knowles Ritchie, is available for winners to purchase separately.
Every entry is also considered by DIELINE’s editorial team for potential coverage, independently of the final award results.
Entry fees
Fees per entry/category (USD), in the order Professional / Independent / Concept, Student & Design for Good: $445 / $335 / $175 until 30 November 2026; $469 / $355 / $185 until 18 December 2026; $495 / $390 / $195 until 29 January 2027; and $545 / $425 / $215 until 26 February 2027.
Professional and Independent entries receive 10% off for 5+ entries or 20% off for 10+ entries; the Designalytics Effectiveness Award is free to enter.
