The 2026 Coffee Design Awards recognize remarkable creativity and innovation across coffee branding, packaging, and environments. These awards—which are hosted at World of Coffee trade shows annually—celebrate the vision, skill, and storytelling that define the coffee experience. Thank you to all who submitted their work to the 2026 awards.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.