On June 21, Pratt Institute welcomed 250 guests at its Art of Packaging Award Gala, an annual event that celebrates excellence in packaging design. The gala raised $350,000, which benefits the Marc Rosen Scholarship Fund for Packaging by Design at Pratt Institute. Emceed by supermodel Carol Alt, the event marked 27 years of the Fund that has helped raise more than $3.5 million for scholarships for graduate packaging design students at Pratt.

The Art of Packaging Award is presented each year to a beauty/cosmetics company that has excelled in the art form. Jean Madar, chairman of the board and CEO at Inter Parfums, Inc., accepted the award for the company’s many accomplishments in fragrance packaging.

Rosen teaches a course on cosmetic and fragrance package design at Pratt, where students are challenged to create a perfume bottle prototype, a scent card, box, shopping bag, and advertisement. To date, the Fund has provided scholarships to more than 100 Pratt students, many of who have become industry leaders. This year’s student scholarship winners, each with fragrance packaging design work on display at the event, are: Paula Ip, Talia Douaidy, Xinlu Liu, Fang Yi Chu, Brielle Wilson and Eugene Kim.

The event also celebrated the announcement of the Marc Rosen Scholarship for Packaging by Design, which will provide full tuition on the basis of merit to Damini Singh, a first-year student in the Graduate Communications Design program beginning in 2016-17. The scholarship may be renewed for a second year, making it Pratt’s only scholarship with the potential to cover the entire cost of tuition. Singh, who flew in from India for the event, will begin her graduate degree in Communications Design in Fall 2016.

For full details and photos from the event, stay tuned to the September 2016 edition of Beauty Packaging.