Registration Now Open for 2025 Specialty Coffee Expo Houston!

The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) is thrilled to announce its flagship North American Specialty Coffee Expo will take place in Houston, TX at the George R. Brown Convention Center, April 25–27, 2025. This extraordinary gathering will welcome more than 17,000 attendees from 85 countries, showcasing the best in coffee innovation, culture, and sustainability as well as several networking opportunities supporting the commerce side of the trade business. Proudly supported by Title Sponsor Middleby Coffee Solutions Group, Diamond Sponsor Sanremo Coffee Machines and Platinum Sponsor Pacific Barista Series. Coffees from Peru will be featured as the Portrait Country with unique cultural activations, and a pop-up café experience.

Community, News & Events, AnnouncementsMeghan Elward-DuffyDecember 9, 2024Expo, Expo 2025, Events, Community, Coffee Design Awards

Congratulations to the 2023 Coffee Design Awards Winners

The winners of the specialty coffee industry’s most prestigious awards for design were announced today at Specialty Coffee Expo 2023. The Coffee Design Awards is a platform for showcasing great design in specialty coffee across three competition categories; branding, packaging, and spaces.

Submissions open for the 2023 Coffee Design Awards Portland

Submissions now open for the 2023 Coffee Design Awards taking place at Specialty Coffee Expo in Portland, Oregon, USA from April 21-23, 2023.

Features, News & EventsSpecialty Coffee AssociationJanuary 17, 2023Expo 2023, Coffee Design Awards

Congratulations to the 2022 Coffee Design Awards Winner!

The winner of the specialty coffee industry’s most prestigious awards for design was announced today at World of Coffee 2022. Great coffee is often given distinction via great design, and increasingly serves an important function in distinguishing specialty coffee. The Coffee Design Awards seeks to celebrate this effort by awarding great packaging design.

Submissions Now Accepted for Coffee Design Awards at World of Coffee 2022 in Milan, Italy

Coffee Design Awards recognizes great design judged on individuality, sustainability, and innovation. This competition celebrates and showcases the best in specialty coffee design.

Congratulations to the 2022 Coffee Design Awards Winners

We have just announced the winners of the 2022 Coffee Design Awards—the prestigious award for great design in the coffee industry. Find out who the winners were!

Announcing the 2022 Coffee Design Awards Finalists!

AnnouncementsSpecialty Coffee AssociationApril 8, 2022Coffee Design Awards

Showcasing Collaboration: Winners of the 2019 Berlin Design Lab

Design Lab is a platform for showcasing great design in specialty coffee, taking place at World of Coffee for the first the time in Berlin this June. Design Lab was established at our 2016 Expo in Atlanta, focusing initially on coffee packaging, but has grown to include new showcases and will now be present at two shows.

Announcing the Best New Product and Design lab Winners at the 2019 World of Coffee in Berlin

The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) is proud to announce the winners of the Best New Product and Design Lab Awards at the 2019 World of Coffee in Berlin.

2019 Specialty Coffee Expo Design Lab Winners Announced

Winners in each of this year’s four Design Lab categories were declared yesterday afternoon – meet them below!

Original, Functional, Sustainable: Design Lab’s Celebration of Design in Coffee - 25 Magazine: Issue 5

Perhaps more than ever, coffee shops are putting a massive focus on design: the drive to distinguish a specialty café from the “Central Perk/coffeehouse” vibe of the 1990s is largely being achieved by way of brand, architecture, packaging, and signage.

25, Read, FeaturesSpecialty Coffee AssociationJune 13, 2018Design Lab, Coffee Design Awards, Issue 5, Design, SCA Awards

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