Popit Recycling’s milk bottle recycling system has won Gold for Engineering Design at the 2026 Australian Good Design Awards, recognising its approach to food-grade HDPE recycling.

Sydney brand design agency The Creative Method has redesigned the packaging for Wild Turkey’s 39-SKU Australian RTD portfolio, giving greater prominence to the brand’s turkey illustration.

Reckitt and Mondi’s paper-based Finish tablet pack has won a 2026 Australian Good Design Award, recognising reduced plastic use, product protection and a kerbside recycling pathway.

Boxer Brands has walked off with four Gold awards at the 2026 Sydney Design Awards for projects spanning brand creation, identity, and illustration across food, dairy and personal care categories.

Peacock Bros' packaging refresh for Victorian craft distillery Organic Bay Distillery evolved into a broader rebrand, including new labels produced using digital print and embellishment techniques.

The August edition of The Packaging Innovation Edit, presented exclusively by PKN and ThePackHub, includes an Australian-developed monomaterial produce pack, a resealable can closure, fibre-based beverage packaging, reusable cocktail glassware and a dual-chamber haircare bottle.

Melbourne-based brand and packaging agency Brand Society has designed the packaging and visual identity for the Cadbury Dairy Milk and MCoBeauty collaboration now on Woolworths shelves.

MCC Labels has produced a digitally printed label for Gindu Alpine Gin, using a multi-layer construction to depict the Australian high country that inspired the gin.

Brownes Dairy has refreshed the packaging across its white milk range, with new artwork inspired by the flora and agricultural landscapes of Western Australia’s South West.

easyamends has officially launched, offering FMCG, pharmaceutical and retail brands a purpose-built platform to manage packaging artwork amendments and approvals.

MCC Label has produced digitally printed labels and four-pack can wraps for Mezzello Spritz, a canned ready-to-drink range launched by Luxe Liquor founder Michelle Lush.

The secondary packaging for the Jack Daniel's x McLaren Halo MK1 Limited Edition has received three awards across the London Design Awards and Tokyo Design Awards.

The 2026 Sustainable Packaging Design awards recognised that there is no single route to more sustainable packaging, with the judges awarding gold across five distinct sustainability principles.

Packaging designed with, rather than simply for, people living with disability has taken top honours, with ByStorm Beauty recognised for its adaptive makeup tools and accessible mailer box.

Consumer convenience and circular design came together, with Primo Foods and Amcor Flexibles recognised for a peel-and-reseal sliced meats pack that reduces plastic while improving functionality.

A redesigned Birds Eye frozen vegetable pack that tackles one of consumers' biggest frustrations has won gold in the 2026 Save Food Packaging Design category.