Your Tube Award 2012
New designs for the aluminium tube
The winners of the 1st International Aluminium Tube Design Award are announced .Novel concepts for redesigning the aluminium tube make their mark in form and function
The YOUR TUBE AWARD competition, held for the very first time in 2012, presents new, attractive design solutions for the aluminium tube: In a six-month submission phase the Aluminium Tube Committee of the European Tube Manufacturers Association (etma) looked out for outstanding and innovative design concepts for the aluminium tube in the area of graphic and product design. Over 60 extraordinary ideas of an exceptional quality were submitted by designers, young professionals, students, or design schools from eleven different countries and critically appraised by a jury made up of experts from the design, packaging, and industrial sectors by the end of 2012, making the YOUR TUBE AWARD a great success. The top three places were awarded to design professionals and design students from France, Iran, and Mexico, while the special prize for the “Best Holistic Concept” went jointly to two young designers from Germany and Mexico.
The award winners of the international design competition for the aluminium tube shared a total prize pot of 10,000 €.
Refreshing concepts, excellently set in scene the aluminium tube in the spotlight
“New perspectives for the aluminium tube…!”.
In the beginning was the idea - the idea to give the aluminium tube a new face, to form new, innovative bonds between material, design, and functionality, and to enhance the awareness of the traditional aluminium tube among packaging, product and graphic designers by means of a design competition – the 1st International Aluminium Tube Design Award, the YOUR TUBE AWARD was born.
For designers, the aluminium tube poses one of the greatest challenges within the packaging sector.
Yet the aluminium tube is the premium choice when it comes to packing pasty products in an attractive way. The budding creative experts have demonstrated considerable skill and flexibility in taking up this challenge, mastering the assigned task brilliantly.
«We’ve seen many imaginative concepts» says Dr. Monika Kopra-Schäfer, Chairwoman of the Aluminium Tube Committee and etma President, in appreciation of the submissions for the design competition. What we were looking for were out-of-the-box ways to innovatively stage the basic material aluminium in the tube form, without setting any limits on creativity.
The Aluminium Tube Committee of the European Tube Manufacturers Association (etma) awarded prizes of 5,000 euros (1st place), 2,000 euros (2nd place), and 1,000 euros (3rd place) in recognition of the design efforts, with two special prizes each of 1,000 euros being awarded to two participants who tied in the category “Best Holistic Concept”.
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And the winners are… Il compito del concorso di design per il tubo di alluminio era portare le giovani leve del design ma anche i professionisti già esperti a contatto con le eccellenti proprietà dell’alluminio come materiale per il confezionamento. The aim of the novel aluminium tube design competition task was to draw the attention of both budding designers as well as experienced professionals to the excellent characteristics of aluminium as a packaging material.  Il progetto vincitore dei designer francesi Gullaud e Foubert, basato su un’ingegnosa tecnica di piegatura, valorizza le proprietà dell’alluminio in modo particolarmente creativo: spingendo al consumo del prodotto, il tubo viene svuotato grazie a una speciale tecnica di piegatura, ridisegnando e reinterpretando allo stesso tempo l’immagine del marchio. The winning concept based on a sophisticated feature submitted by the French designers Mathilde Gullaud and Jérôme Foubert accomplishes this in a highly creative way: his interest aroused by the special folding technique, the consumer is animated to use the product and squeezes the tube empty, gradually reshaping and reinterpreting the brand image in the process. |
 Lo studente iraniano di design che si è classificato secondo, Mohamadreza Shahmohamadi, ha creato - con una serie di strepitosi e innovativi interventi sulla forma - un’immagine del prodotto completamente nuova, che non ha quasi più nulla a che spartire con l’immagine tradizionale del tubo di alluminio. The winner of second place, the Iranian design student Mohamadreza Shahmohamadi, came up with a multitude of exciting forms and shapes to create an entirely new product presentation, one that has hardly anything in common with the conventional image of the aluminium tube. |
 Il messicano Pedro Romero Oceguera si aggiudica invece il terzo posto, con un innovativo supporto all’estremità del tubo, che non solo rivoluziona le possibilità di conservazione e di presentazione dei tubi di alluminio, ma che trasforma i tubi di alluminio in oggetti della quotidianità, come ad esempio un portachiavi. Pedro Romero Oceguera from Mexico came in third with an innovative holder at the end of the tube, which not only revolutionizes the ways in which aluminium tubes can be stored and presented at the point of sale, but also enables the tube to be used as an everyday object, for example as a key pendant. |
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Il premio speciale al “Miglior progetto completo”, ad esempio per marchi di invenzione, è stato assegnato a due partecipanti: ha spuntarla sui concorrenti è stata la tedesca Jennifer Skibbe, convincendo la giuria con il suo progetto per zuppe pronte TubeSoup, compreso il tappo del tubo a forma di cucchiaio. Altrettanto convincente si è dimostrato il progetto del giovane designer Carlos Díaz, con la sua cioccolata messicana in tubetto, con speciale apertura ergonomica convenience per il consumo diretto e con un tappo dalla forma originale che stuzzica l’appetito.  The special prize for “Best Holistic Concept” - for example for fictive brands - was awarded twice: the German designer Jennifer Skibbe impressed the expert jury with her “TubeSoup” entry, a packaging concept for instant soup that includes a tube closure in the shape of a spoon. The same did also the young designer Carlos Díaz with his Mexican chocolate packaged with an especially mouth-ergonomic opening for direct out-of-the-tube enjoyment and an original, appetizing closure design. È possibile scaricare immagini dei progetti vincitori al link Images of the prize-winning concepts can be downloaded at the competition website |
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