Every Entry Gets Read: Inside What a DIELINE Awards Entry Actually Includes
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Here is the honest question every studio asks before entering any competition: is an awards entry worth the invoice? Most awards sell a lottery ticket. You pay, a jury deliberates somewhere, and the entry comes back as either a trophy or a receipt. A DIELINE Awards entry does not work that way, and it is worth spelling out exactly what you get before anyone wins anything.
1. Editorial Review of Every Entry
Every single submission is read by DIELINE’s editorial team and considered for feature coverage on thedieline.com. That is not a courtesy line; it is how a meaningful share of the work you see on this site arrives. Strong work gets in front of 6.9M annual readers regardless of what the jury decides. For a studio, that is distribution you would otherwise pitch for.
2. The iF DESIGN AWARD Pathway
New for 2027: win at DIELINE and you receive free entry into iF DESIGN AWARD 2027 with automatic advancement to the second jury round. That is a $1,000+ value that exists nowhere else, and it means one entry puts two of the industry’s most respected awards in play. The partnership exists because both organizations wanted a cleaner path for great packaging work to be recognized globally, without paying twice to prove the same thing.
