Bottledwaterworld Design Awards

The 2006 bottledwaterworld magazine design awards is now its fourth year and Zenith International Publishing is scouring the global bottled water industry for the best bottles in glass, PET, and alternative materials.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder of course and the winner may be a lightweight bottle using minimal PET, a fine piece of PET machine tooling which catches the eye of the judging panel, an excellent design in glass, or a fully recyclable bottle with the promise of a more protected global environment.

Last year the competition drew 110 entries from 24 countries with 10 categories in all covering the various materials and also developments in functional and designer waters, with further awards for best label, best closure, best marketing campaign and best website.

The judging panel includes Europe's largest supermarket Carrefour, French design agency Dragon Rouge, PET equipment supplier R&D Tool and Engineering and flavour specialist Mastertaste.

Past winners include the river styled PET bottle by designer Ross Lovegrove for Ty Nant of Wales, the fridge bottle from Spadel Group of Belgium, the Icelandic Glacial PET bottle from Icelandic Glacier Holdings with its inverted mountain base, Vöslauer of Austria for its contemporary flavoured water range - in fact too many to mention - although these all can be viewed online.

A full colour supplement is produced to accompany the magazine in which every entrant is given full photographic coverage. Global news coverage comes as part of the award.

Prizes will be awarded at a glittering gala dinner being held on 19 September in Bergamo, Italy, as part of the Zenith International Global Bottled Water Congress.

This year receipt of entries is Friday 24 July - so not long now.

Entry details are available on line at www.zipublishing.com.