Reusable Tableware Design Competition and Cash Prize up to € 5,000 from Desall

Desall and DOpla are inviting designers around the world to participate in a reusable tableware design competition and its packaging dedicated to the large-scale retail trade.

Contest Guidelines:

You are invited to design a tableware collection for food and beverage consumption at the table and in other contexts. The collection must involve several products of choice, including for example:

• Plates: round, square, flat, soup, dessert, etc.
• Glasses: of water, wine, sparkling wine, liquor, etc.
• Cutlery: forks, knives, spoons, small spoons, small forks, etc.
• Different containers: bowls, trays, containers, etc.

The minimum content to be presented consists of a set of plates: flat, soup, dessert, fruit, and at least one water glass.

You are also invited to design the packaging for the tableware collection, and in particular at least one example of packaging for each of the proposed product types of the collection, so, packaging for a pack of 10 plates, packaging for a pack of 10 cutlery items, etc.

The packaging can be primary and secondary:

• The primary packaging (mandatory): this kind of packaging may include a pre-printed wrapping film (with graphics printed directly on the film, transparent areas, etc.) or a wrapping film and a label (applied to the transparent film).
• The secondary packaging (optional): cardboard packaging with the function of a real shelf display for the large-scale retail trade, a ready-to-sell solution. The aim of this packaging is to show the product and its features in the best possible way, attracting the consumer’s attention and making it stand out from the other products on display.

Shapes and Aesthetics: regarding the tableware, it’s fundamental to design an aesthetic but also functional style that suggests and enables their new feature, which is a collection of durable and reusable products. Moreover, all the products of the collection will have to be designed in view of family feeling, keeping a certain coherence with the DOpla brand and its values. The shapes will have to maximize the practical functionality and, in particular, the tableware shall be easily washable: so, avoid inserting edges or interstices where food could nest. There are no particular color guidelines to follow

Size: For each product of the collection there are some size limitations. Your product should fit the following volumes:

• Plate: 230 × 230 x h25 mm
• Glass: 80 × 80 x h130 mm
• Cutlery: 180 × 40 x h65 mm
• Tray: 330 × 230 x h30 mm
• Bowl: 180 × 180 x h43 mm

Logo: you are invited to insert the logo attached to the Material files on the surface of the single products of the collection, by embossing. The logo shall be visible but not invasive, for example on the bottom of plates and glasses.

Production Technologies and Materials: the whole tableware collection will be produced through thermo-forming processes. Polystyrene (PS) and Polypropylene (PP) are allowed. Two layers of material are allowed for coloring or for using recycled material in the part, not in contact with food and beverages.

Evaluation Criteria:

In the evaluation of your submissions DOpla will take into account the following criteria:

• Technical feasibility (includes economic sustainability) 5/5
• Aesthetics (includes brand compliance) 5/5
• Innovation degree (includes functionality/usability) 4/5
• Compliance (includes compatibility with reusability requirement) 3/5
• Design completeness (understandability of design, completeness of product/packaging and family feeling for the product range, the satisfaction of all requirements posed in the Brief) 3/5

Eligibility Criteria:

• Participation is free of charge and open to designers and creative talents of any nationality aged 18 years or older.
• Participants can present one or more projects, but only the projects published on the www.desall.com web site, via the upload page related to “Tableware Collection Design” will be accepted.

Awards:

• The winning project will receive €5000.
• For the duration of the options right, the Sponsor offers an extra chance to all participants setting a fee of Euro 2500,00 = (two-thousand-five-hundred/00) for the purchase of the license for the economical exploitation of the projects not-acknowledged as the winning proposals.

Contest Timeline:

• Upload phase: 22nd December 2020 – 23rd March 2021
• Client vote: from 23rd March 2021
• Winner announcement: approximately before the end of May 2021

About Desall:

Desall is an open innovation and crowdsourcing platform that, through design contests, connects companies and private clients with a worldwide community of creative talents.

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