Coffee Design Awards at Specialty Coffee Expo
Recognizing and rewarding great design in the specialty coffee industry.
Competion Categories
The Coffee Design Awards Branding is about recognizing the brands, identities and visual environments that companies in coffee use to stand out. It’s about the logos, the style guides, the stationery, the posters, the flyers, the digital comms - anything and everything that's not the product itself or the space. Submissions should include logo files, style guides, and up to three high-res examples of the brand in-use on promotional assets, not including products or vessels.
Branding
The Coffee Design Awards Packaging identifies some of the most compelling coffee packaging designs that looks beyond brand adherence from the past year.
Packaging
The Coffee Design Awards Spaces showcases places for making, teaching, and serving coffee.
Spaces
Specialty Coffee Expo 2023
Spaces Category Winner
The Boy & The Bear - Coffee Roastery
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Competition Submission Rules:
Entry must be new to the company and introduced into the marketplace no more than one year prior to the first day of the show, April 12, 2024.
High-quality photos of each submission must be included - minimum 3MB. Entries will be displayed via a digital screen at the Coffee Design Awards display using submission photos with a title card indicating key details. In the case of physical samples with Packaging, one to two items will be displayed on a shelf by the digital screen.
For entries into Packaging, applicants must ship a sample ahead of the show to be included in the exhibit and considered for judging. Shipping details will be provided.
Applicants should include as much information as possible about their submission.
SCA reserves the right to reclassify or decline an entry. Please note that, if less than three entries are received in a specific category, categories may be combined, or an entry may be reclassified.
CDA awards are at the discretion of independent judges and show management.
Judging will take place onsite at the show.
All entrants will be displayed at the Coffee Design Award display on show site providing all materials are submitted by the deadlines outlined.
All entrants will be placed on permanent display on the Design in Coffee platform.
Deadline for submission is March 1, 2024. The deadline for submissions has now passed.
Each entry must pay a fee of $250.
Judging Rubric
Judging is based on the following criteria rated 0 to 5 per question:
Does this design offer an appealing alternative in form, color, texture, or material to others on the market?
Is the design aesthetically appealing?
Is the product in line with consumer preferences and industry trends? Please explain why.
Is there a clear sustainability message or value to the design?
Is the overall result a positive, creative experience?
