The Dieline: A Look Back

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May 12, 2014

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Today, the team and I are in Boston for The Dieline’s 4th annual package design conference at HOW Design Live. We couldn’t be more excited!

This year, I have the honor of presenting a keynote session in front of all 5 HOW Design Live conferences. In my session, A Celebration of Authenticity: What Ive Learned About Brand Minimalism, I will be sharing my personal journey on how The Dieline came to be in the context of my life, and the world as a whole. Most importantly, I will be sharing all of my major life lessons as well as design lessons I have learned along the way. For those of you able to attend, you’re in for some fun!

For those of you not able to make it, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at The Dieline’s past, and our journey through out the years and up to today.

Andrew Gibbs

Andrew Gibbs has been called an “innovator in the world of design” as the founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Dieline, founded in 2007. Andrew started Dieline Awards in 2009 to formally recognize the world’s best consumer product packaging design. The awards competition was recognized as a “global phenomenon” in its first year. In 2010, he founded Dieline Conference, an annual conference for creative professionals in the packaging design and branding industry. He now serves as Creative Director and Programming Partner for HOW Design Live, one of the largest annual gatherings of creatives in the world. In 2014, he became a faculty member at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA teaching Packaging Design. Andrew was previously named the Editor-in-Chief of HOW Design Magazine in 2015, making him the youngest editor of a design magazine ever. In 2018, Andrew became a Climate Reality Leader after training under Al Gore at the 2018 Climate Reality Corps. He joined A Plastic Planet, a U.K. based non-profit that is dedicated to dramatically reducing the amount of single use plastic used in the packaging industry. Andrew speaks and consults worldwide on the topics of packaging design and sustainable packaging.