🌍 Introducing Merit Winners: More Ways to Be Recognized at DIELINE Awards 2026

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October 22, 2025

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DIELINE Awards 2026

DIELINE Awards 2026 are expanding recognition with the introduction of Merit Winners, offering even more opportunities for outstanding packaging design to be seen and celebrated on the world’s leading packaging design platform.

Since their inception, DIELINE Awards have honored excellence in consumer package design — recognizing creativity, innovation, sustainability, and impact. Each year, winning work is featured on DIELINE, shared across our global channels, and exhibited before thousands of industry professionals at LUXE PACK New York.

Now, for 2026, DIELINE Awards are taking recognition even further. In addition to existing winners — Best of Category, First, Second, and Third Place — the jury will select Merit Winners in every category: projects that demonstrate exceptional creativity, innovation, and craftsmanship.

Merit Winners will be featured on DIELINE alongside top winners, gaining global exposure and industry-wide visibility. It’s another way for designers, agencies, and brands to earn recognition for their work, and to be part of the future of packaging design.

🏆 Hurry: Fall Entry Deadline Ends October 31

HURRY: FALL DEADLINE ENDS OCT 31st – ENTER NOW →

The Fall Entry Deadline for DIELINE Awards 2026 is approaching fast. This is the final opportunity to secure early Fall entry pricing before fees increase on November 1.

You don’t need every detail finalized — you can submit your entry now and complete it before the competition closes.

Whether you’re launching a challenger brand, redefining an icon, or developing the next sustainable innovation, DIELINE Awards give your work the global platform and visibility it deserves.

HURRY: FALL DEADLINE ENDS OCT 31st – ENTER NOW →

Andrew Gibbs

Andrew Gibbs has been called an “innovator in the world of design” as the founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Dieline, founded in 2007. Andrew started Dieline Awards in 2009 to formally recognize the world’s best consumer product packaging design. The awards competition was recognized as a “global phenomenon” in its first year. In 2010, he founded Dieline Conference, an annual conference for creative professionals in the packaging design and branding industry. He now serves as Creative Director and Programming Partner for HOW Design Live, one of the largest annual gatherings of creatives in the world. In 2014, he became a faculty member at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA teaching Packaging Design. Andrew was previously named the Editor-in-Chief of HOW Design Magazine in 2015, making him the youngest editor of a design magazine ever. In 2018, Andrew became a Climate Reality Leader after training under Al Gore at the 2018 Climate Reality Corps. He joined A Plastic Planet, a U.K. based non-profit that is dedicated to dramatically reducing the amount of single use plastic used in the packaging industry. Andrew speaks and consults worldwide on the topics of packaging design and sustainable packaging.