2006 Message from the President

Australian packaging design is alive! The Award winners you will see inside this website demonstrate that not only are we competitive on an international level, but our future is in good hands.

The number and quality of entries for the 2006 Australian Packaging Awards for industry and the Southern Cross Package Design Awards for students have once again proven that these are the premier Awards to showcase Australian packaging excellence.

The Australian Packaging Awards can be seen as a barometer for the Australian packaging industry highlighting innovation, sustainability and quite simply – great ideas. This year we saw over 240 entries submitted which shows the confidence companies in the packaging
industry have in their own products and abilities. This year new categories were implemented and existing categories streamlined which really helped to attract and highlight the best in Australian commercial packaging.

The Southern Cross Package Design Awards celebrated their twenty first birthday this year. These Awards encourage tertiary students who are studying graphic or industrial design to excel and apply the skills they have learnt throughout their studies, towards real life packaging
issues. This year, 27 educational institutions participated with 400 students submitting entries. The winning entries are exciting in their creativity and students showed a lot of savvy when it came to tackling the category briefs. Successful exhibitions were held in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and, for the first time, in Perth and Adelaide.

Thanks must go to sponsors of the Australian Packaging Awards, Southern Cross Package Design Awards and the Awards presentation dinner. Without their ongoing support & continuous commitment, these Awards would not exist.

To the industry entrants, students and lecturers, it is your contributions that help to place these Awards at the pinnacle of Australian packaging design.

A special thanks also to the Judges whose knowledge, dedication and patience all combine to realise the best in packaging design. This is never an easy task and we thank them, as well as their companies, for their time and efforts.

Photos and details of all winning entries are featured on the Packaging Council of Australia website- www.packcoun.com.au

Congratulations to the winners and to everyone who entered, thank you for supporting Australian packaging and design and for making these Awards such a success.