DESCRIPTION

STRUCTURAL PACKAGING SHOW is an international exhibition showing the best structures of packaging, from the technical and graphical point of view.
The exhibition is organized by Tribu-3 and Index Book, with the collaboration of Roland and Graphispag.

The participation is free and is opened for companies, studios, independent designers, pupils and young creators of packaging from the whole world.
The show does not have a competitive character. The best packaging in the show will be included in the book Structural Packaging Gold, which Josep Maria Garrofé is preparing in collaboration with Index Book and that will be published at the end of 2011.

REQUIREMENTS
The projects can be placed at any productive sector of consumption: food, textile, jewelry, decoration, leisure, writing, cosmetics, merchandising, publishing houses, etc.
There will be valued first of all the originality and the functionality of the structure of the packaging, having into account the own characteristics and the requirements of marketing of the productive sector in which they are placed. On the other hand, the graphic design will be also valued.
Two levels of participation are established: 

• 1. Designs realized by companies and professionals having been produced throughout 2009 and 2010.
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• 2. Unpublished projects, that is to say, having not been previously produced nor published, realized by professionals, students and schools of design.
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  Categories:
• Basic: packaging with just 1 die
• Average: packaging with 2 or 3 dies
• Superior: complex packaging with more than 3 dies
• The packs must be made of cardboard, cardboard glued with micro-channel, card or other materials which can be cut from a structure, but they can be mixed with another kind of materials different to cardboard. Every participant can present an unlimited number of designs.

PROCEDURE

CONDITIONS AND MATERIALS:

Every project must go with:

• • 1 photo of itself, JPEG format, 300 dpi.
• • Descriptive text of the project, explaining its concept, with a maximum of 300 characters (including the spaces).
• • Descriptive text of the technical part of the project, explaining the raising and the development of all its dies and all the used materials, with a maximum of 500 characters (including the spaces).
• • 1 CD with all the files for the development of the packaging, in format EPS or PDF. The graphics of the pack have to be added (with traced typographies), and, if it contains images, they have to be in JPEG format and to 300 dpi. The die profile must be sent in one layer, apart from the graphic, in an Illustrator file. Another option is to send these files by e-mail to: tribu-3@tribu-3.com.
• • 1 physical sample of the packaging already assembled (samples will not be returned). tribu-3@tribu-3.com 
• Packs without graph will not be accepted. In case of unpublished projects, the graph can be fictitious.

DOCUMENTATION AND COMPLEMENTARY MATERIAL:

Every project must be accompanied of the corresponding application form completed and signed by the company or the author of the design.
In addition, every project will need a letter of assent, signed by the company or the author of the design, authorizing its free use and confirming its authorship.
If the return of the material is requested, the costs of sending will be chargeable to the company or the author. The samples will not be returned.
The packs, together with their application forms, must be sent to:

• Tribu-3. c/ Nápoles, 237.
• 08013 Barcelona.

Deadline of reception:
on February 24th, 2011.

PROCESS OF SELECTION:

• PHASE 1. Previous selection of the packaging that will be exposed in Graphispag, at the expense of a Juror commissioned by Josep Maria Garrofé and consisting of an experts team:

• - Laura Farré, Tribu-3’s designer.
• - Silvia Estrada, Index Book’s publisher.
• - Marta Fraile, Roland’s marketing manager.
• - Carme Vila, Marketing Department Fira de Barcelona.

• PHASE 2. Selection of the packs exposed at Graphispag that will include in the Structural Packaging Gold book, voted by the public assisting to the exhibition. The participation in the exhibition STRUCTURAL PACKAGING SHOW implies the acceptance of these bases.