Gold for Omdesign at Pentawards

The Omdesign 2016 self-promotional packaging, which won a Red Dot Award in August, has once again been commended at the international scene, with a gold at Pentawards. The design competition award was given in Barcelona this Saturday, in the event's Self-Promotion category. The advertising agency from Leça da Palmeira took gold this year, after winning a silver and a bronze in 2015.

This Sunday was also the last day the Omdesign exhibition, Focusing on Excellence Since 1998, was open to the public. The exhibition opened in early June, at the Quinta de Santiago Museum in Leça da Palmeira.

The agency's progress was highlighted by the exhibition. Since 2015, Omdesign has received 160 awards. And just in this first half of 2017, it has won around 40 awards at various competitions, including Pentawards (France), International Design Awards, Vega Digital Awards and Muse Creative Awards (USA), A’ Design Award & Competition (Italy), Wine Design Challenge (England) and iF Design Award (Germany).

When speaking about the projects on show at the exhibition, Diogo Gama Rocha, managing director of Omdesign, said in an interview with M&P that “it is extremely difficult to single out any one project, because all our work, clients and brands are equally important to us. But if I must talk about just one, I'll choose our Omdesign 2016 self-promotional packaging, which we designed in December last year. Inspired by the shape of an acorn, this wood and cork packaging, without any oil derivatives whatsoever, was our way of giving back to nature what we take from it every day to create other packaging and materials. We invited everybody who received this packaging to water the acorn inside and plant the cork oak once it germinated”. In the same interview, he also mentioned that Omdesign has “as part of its strategy it has taken part in a number of national and international design and advertising competitions and it is indeed very gratifying to see our prize-winning projects "travel the world", bringing even more prestige to national design and the brands we are so proud to work with".