Enter Our 62nd GDUSA Package Awards

2025 GDUSA Package Design Awards™

We invite you to enter Graphic Design USA’s 2025 American Package Design Awards™. This 62nd anniversary edition comes at a time when package design and its related disciplines are alive with growth and change. Why? Because creative and marketing professionals — and their clients — are challenged as never before to convey the message, tell the story, advance the brand, amplify the experience, make the sale. Amid the cacophony, clutter and confusion, effective package design is the difference maker — tangible, immediate, interactive, emotive. Our annual competition celebrates beauty and clarity of communication, of course, but importantly, the power of effective and strategic design to forge a connection at the moment of truth before, during and after the sale.

— The Editors

About The Sponsors

MOHAWK

Founded in 1931 in Upstate New York, Mohawk, Part of the Fedrigoni Group, has produced some of North America’s best-known fine papers for designers, brands, and printers for over 90 years. Mohawk makes paper that is as enduring and unique as it was well-crafted and beautiful. Mohawk has demonstrated a decades-long history of innovation and resilience in the fields of digital printing, sustainability, and more recently, packaging. Mohawk’s folding board papers provide a superior print surface of inks, foils, embossing, and other embellishments. From the brightest whites to the richest blacks, as well as sustainable solutions, Mohawk’s folding boards are engineered to be scored and folded to create sophisticated, beautiful, and responsible packaging that embodies your brand. https://www.mohawkconnects.com/

FEDRIGONI

Founded in 1888 in Verona, Italy, Fedrigoni is today synonymous with excellence in the world of labels and self-adhesive materials, specialty papers for luxury packaging and creative communication, and RFID. With nearly 6,000 people in 28 countries and 78 facilities including production sites, cutting centers and distribution centers, the Group sells and distributes over 25,000 products in 132 countries. For more information: www.fedrigoni.com

How To Enter | Deadline February 21

Entries may be submitted by any company, agency or individual involved in the creation or production or distribution or placement of the work. Entries must have been created or produced or distributed anytime during 2023 or 2024.

SPECIAL NOTE TO ENTRANTS

Now in our 62nd year, GDUSA competitions have grown so large that we have engaged a specialized awards firm respected and renowned — OPENWATER — that greatly simplifies the entry process and makes the flow easier and more intuitive for you. Among the upgrades: you can start an entry, save it in draft, and finish it later; and we have created a CART system that lets you collect all the entries and pay once at the end of the process with all major credit cards. GDUSA will, of course, continue to control all design, content, and review activities.

1. CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT OR LOG IN
In most cases you will need to open a new account. This is quick and easy; just a few lines of basic information. If you happen to already have an OpenWater account, you can simply log in.

2. SELECT THE CATEGORY
Select the category that best describes each entry or entries.

3. SUBMIT ENTRY DETAILS
For each entry, provide the design firm or creative agency or inhouse department plus client, title of entry, creative credits as you wish.

4. UPLOAD DIGITAL FILES/ELECTRONIC ARTWORK
Specifications are provided for all types of categories. In most cases, you will be asked to upload 1-4 images that display your entry or 1 composite image that includes the highlights. When relevant, such as for websites and videos, we ask for the URL as well as the 1-4 supporting still images. For the images, we much prefer JPGs but will accept other formats.

5. PAYMENT FOR ENTRIES (AND PAST WINNER DISCOUNT)
Each entry automatically appears in a CART and you can pay once for any or all entries at the end by CHECKING OUT through the CART. We accept payment by major Credit Cards or via Paypal. There are deep volume discounts built automatically into the entry fee schedule. AND if you are a Past Winner of any GDUSA competition, you are entitled to additional 20% discount; please email us – awards@gdusa.com – for the promo code to use at checkout.

6. ENTRY FEES
$95 … 1 Entry
$180 … 2 Entries
$240 … 3 Entries
$280 … 4 Entries
$300 … 5 Entries
$320 … 6 Entries
$340 … 7 Entries
$360 … 8 Entries
$380 … 9 Entries
$400 … 10-40 Entries
MAXIMUM 40 ENTRIES

Enter Here

Mailing + Questions

Graphic Design USA/GDUSA
re: Awards Department
594 Dean Street, Ste. 22
Brooklyn NY 11238

ANY QUESTIONS OR NEED DISCOUNT CODE? Email: awards@gdusa.com

Rights + Permissions

Winning entrants grant Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) the right to reproduce the winning pieces in the GDUSA Graphic Design Awards Annual in print, digital, web and mobile editions, and in any and all materials and media produced for promotional purposes by Graphic Design USA and Fedrigoni Special Papers and Mohawk.