Pentawards 2024 Special Award winners

In addition to Gold, Silver and Bronze winners, every year, Pentawards awards special prizes for people who have made remarkable achievements. The special prizes awarded this year include Agency of the Year, Educator of the Year, Best Newcomer, the People's Choice and the NXT-GEN awards.

Design Bridge & Partners wins the Design Agency of the Year after having 10 entries shortlisted, with 8 of them winning a trophy. The awarded designs include Pastiglie Leone: La Dolce Vita (Food Platinum), The Spirit of Heineken (Gold), Tanqueray No. TEN. Cocktail artistry, revealed. (Gold), Hei150ken (Gold) and Laphroaig (Silver).

Senegal and Spain based design agencies Retbaa and Kids have won the Best Newcomer award after having all of their entries winning in their first year's competition. The winning design works are: Designed in Paris, from Africa to the world (Gold) and Sensory Odyssey from Africa to the world (Gold) by Retbaa and Raras by Kids (2 Golds).

This award celebrates the exceptional educators who inspire and support their students to achieve remarkable success in academic and creative endeavours. This year's winner is once again ELISAVA from Spain, with 8 shortlisted works and 4 winning a Pentawards trophy. The winning works are: PIKI (Silver), BAND-AID (Silver), INTIMINA (Bronze), PARALELO CERO (Bronze).

In addition to professional expert opinions, we listen to the voice of the public. As part of the 2024 competition, we gave you a chance to vote for a winning entry, the People's Choice Award. 12 designs were selected and put to the vote to our community, with Bananostafido by Loukas Chondros winning people's hearts.

For the first time ever, we’ve partnered with KURZ to create a brand new Special Award celebrating excellence in embellishment. The awarded designs are YEW'S PATH by Estudio Pablo Guerrero (Gold), Symbiotic wine by BXL (Silver) and CASA MARRAZZO CANNED SERIES by Auge Design (Bronze).

Every year, our International Jury selects one of the best student works among all categories for the NXT-GEN Award, which this year went to Chuxun Yu, Zhuowen Lin and Rongjin Zheng from Guangdong Industry Polytechnic, China.

The brand "XUN," meaning slight intoxication, is inspired by the blush after a glass of wine. The bottle features a playful Tang Dynasty lady whose cheeks blush when touched or heated, thanks to thermochromic paint, adding a fun, interactive ritual. The skeletonized packaging highlights the design and invites consumers to engage with the product.

Congratulations to all of this year's Special Award winners. For the full list of 2024 winners, please click the button below.