MILAN – Great coffee is often synonymous with great design, and increasingly serves a critical function in distinguishing specialty coffee: The SCA Coffee Design Awards, formerly known as Design Lab, celebrates this effort through four key platforms; branding, spaces, coffee vessels, and packaging. Entries are submitted through the SCA Design in Coffee platform across four categories, where they will be on permanent display digitally.
In a first round, judges will review all submissions on Design in Coffee. A second round of applicants will then be selected as finalists and contacted to complete a set of follow-up questions – either in writing or via video.
After winners are announced, the Coffee Design Awards Winner Marks will be available immediately for the winners to use for promotion.
SCA Coffee Design Awards 2021: Competition Categories
- Brand – This award recognizes the brands, identities, and visual environments that companies in coffee use to stand out. It’s about 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.Spaces – This award showcases incredible retail, education and production environments designed for coffee.Packaging – This award identifies some of the most compelling coffee packaging designs from the past year.
Vessels – This award explores some of the most charming and original designs for anything you drink coffee from – paper cups, travel mugs, ceramics, glassware, etc.
2019 Design Lab Winners
In 2019, Design Lab featured at Specialty Coffee Expo in Boston, USA and World of Coffee Berlin, Germany. Eight companies were awarded with Design Lab awards across the two shows in four competition categories.
