Packaging

All graphic design, branding and structural designs related to the packaging of products. Examples include: primary or secondary packaging for Fast Moving Consumer Goods or premium brands, promotional packaging, gifting programs, and limited editions.

2025 Packaging Jury

  • Jury Captain

    Alex Center

    Founder, center.design

    Alex Center is a Brooklyn-based designer and founder of the award-winning branding company CENTER. Prior to launching his own studio in 2018, he spent a decade working for The Coca-Cola Company, where, as Design Director, he led the vision for the beverage brands vitaminwater, POWERADE, and smartwater.

    Over his career, Alex has helped build several billion-dollar brands, designed packaging that has been in the hands of millions and given keynote talks all around the world. Today, he and the team at CENTER are playing at the center of culture, partnering with icons like Apple, New Balance and Coinbase, startups like Kin Euphorics, Magic Spoon and Liquid death and building new to world brands like United Sodas of America, Pavise and BERO.

    Alex is also a mentor at the SVA Masters in Branding program and cohost of the wildly popular podcast, Front & Center. In his shrinking personal time, he enjoys rooting for New York teams that wear blue and orange and spending time with his wife Jacquelyn De Jesu and their zero kids and zero pets.