Press Release
Bakers Dozen Egg Carton 13 Pack Egg Carton by Randy Ludacer Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Packaging Design
Randy Ludacer honored for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category for Bakers Dozen Egg Carton 13 Pack Egg Carton by Randy Ludacer, designed for Baker's Dozen Egg Cartons, LLC. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding Bakers Dozen Egg Carton 13 Pack Egg Carton
The Baker's Dozen Egg Carton is a reusable molded pulp carton that holds 13 eggs. The eggs are arranged in two rows of four with a row of five between them. The carton is made of 100 percent recycled paper, using the traditional molded paper fiber method. Large packing machines handle even numbers of eggs, so the 13-egg carton is intended for small producers who pack eggs by hand at farm stands and farmers markets. A debossed logo keeps the surface smooth, so farmers can add their own labels.
Award Record
With this recognition, Randy Ludacer is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Packaging Design Award
The A' Packaging Design Award is an international packaging competition that recognizes outstanding packaging designs by talented packaging designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to packaging designers, graphic designers, branding agencies and product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include bottles, boxes, cans, pouches, tubes and cartons. Awarded packaging designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/packaging
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/87428
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/87428
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!87428
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/251625
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/2XizO9H
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Bakers Dozen Egg Carton 13 Pack Egg Carton
- Function
- 13 Pack Egg Carton
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Gray, Light Slate Gray, Tan, Peru and Sienna
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Baker's Dozen Egg Cartons, LLC
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Randy Ludacer
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #87428
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- A reusable, molded pulp egg carton that holds 13 eggs. For small egg producers who pack their eggs by hand. Farm stands, farmer's markets and the like.
- Inspiration
- Maybe it was a counter-intuitive response to finding out that my cholesterol levels were slightly elevated. But, in 2011, I began to play around with an idea for fitting even more eggs into a carton. The Baker's Dozen Egg Carton was the eventual result.
- Research
- Early on, a few large egg producers had expressed interest in our new 13-egg carton, but their egg-packing machinery was only designed to pack eggs in pairs. They could only handle even numbers like, 6, 12 or 18 eggs. To pack an odd number like 13 eggs, they would need to make a major retooling investment. This meant that, for the time being, our cartons would only be practical for small egg-producers who would be packing their eggs by hand. (Farm-stands, farmer's markets and the like.)
- Challenge
- Realizing that our customers were not retail consumers, but small poultry farms, we consulted directly with them - the famers who had been contacting us. What we learned that their customers typically reuse cartons, bringing them back to be refilled. Realizing that our customers had customers of their own, we came up with a self-effacing, debossed logo. This gave farmers the option of smoothly covering our logo with their own labels. Or they could simply rely on the carton's self-explanatory statement: "Contains 13 Farm fresh Eggs."
- Realization and Technology
- Although the Baker's Dozen Egg Carton contains an unconventional number of eggs, it is manufactured using a deliberately traditional method. Egg cartons made of molded paper fiber have have a long history. In this way the Baker's Dozen carton was designed to be structurally strange, yet familiar. (It is also made of 100% recycled paper.)
- Operation and Interaction
- In 2012, when the Baker's Dozen Egg Carton was still only a concept, the Huffington Post listed the Baker's Dozen Egg Carton as 1 of several packaging concepts they wished were real. Naturally, I wanted to grant their wish. But how? Then I got a call in from Willow Valley Farms in Nebraska. And I had to tell them what I'd told so many others: that the product did not yet exist. Together we formed Baker's Dozen Egg Cartons, LLC
- Project Duration and Location
- The project has taken about 8 years, in all, to complete.
- Specifications
- Width 210 mm x 152 mm x 72 mm (closed)
- Keywords
- egg carton, baker's dozen, package design, structural design
