The Pentawards...

On Thursday Night, all the designers from work went along to the Marriot Marque Hotel in Times Square for the 2011 Pentawards.

We were up for 3 of the packaging awards, for projects that the UK teams did and we were the lucky ones who went to go and pick up the awards.

It was a long ceremony, 3 hours long and many many categories - but it was great to see the designers who had created some of the years best packaging. There some very prolific designers there, like Stan Church from Wallace Church and Mary Lewis from Lewis Moberly (they do some amazing stuff for Waitrose), and some people from Turner Duckworth (they do lots of great stuff for people like Coca Cola) and some people from Stranger and Stranger (who do some AMAZING booze bottles).

During the evening there was a special award honouring 125 years of the Coca Cola bottle - and as a special gift Turner Duckworth had produced a limited edition (only 200 of them made!) bottle just for the Pentawards, and we all got one in a goody bag.

After the awards were handed out we went and enjoyed the free bar and nibbles out in the hotel. Moet were using the event to launch their new product, a deeeeeeeeeeeeelicious new champagne in a white bottle, served in fantastic big white glass glasses...

It was a really fun night, and hopefully next year it'll be even better because we'll be winning awards for work that the NY studio have done ourselves...

I managed to come home with some trophies of my own... kind of...

It seemed not everyone wanted their Coca Cola bottles, and I'm not entirely sure if we were supposed to take the Moet glasses home with us, but the fit so nicely in our goody bags!