Press Release
Rilind Hoxha Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Minimo Gift Box in Giftware Design
Rilind Hoxha acknowledged for giftware design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ Minimo Gift Box by Rilind Hoxha, designed for Why Agency, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Giftware Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Minimo Gift Box
The Minimo by Smaragd 1969 is a structured box made from ecological paper and other sustainable materials, intended for repeated use. The box contains four jewelry pieces, each individually packaged and placed in separate compartments. The packaging is designed to be recyclable and reusable, aiming to reduce environmental impact. The compartmental layout allows controlled access to each item while maintaining protection and a sequential unboxing process.
About Rilind Hoxha
Why Agency is a creative studio based in Skopje, working across design, communication, and strategy. The studio collaborates with clients, institutions, and partners on projects involving visual identity, editorial design, digital platforms, and content development. Its process is grounded in research, dialogue, and multidisciplinary thinking, resulting in adaptable design systems that respond to context and function. Why Agency works across sectors including culture, education, technology, and public services, focusing on clarity, structure, and long-term usability in both digital and physical media.
Award Record
Rilind Hoxha is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2024 - 2025 and the 2025 - 2026 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Giftware Design Award
The A' Giftware Design Award is an international gift design competition recognizing good gift designs by leading brands, manufacturers and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to giftware designers, product designers, industrial design studios and giftware brands from all countries. Typical entries include candles, figurines, picture frames, decorative plates, ornaments and souvenirs. The awarded gift designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/giftware
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/118886
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/118886
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!118886
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/298990
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.instagram.com/p/DK1fBk3soEx/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Minimo Gift Box
- Function
- Gift Box
- Category
- Giftware Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Lavender, Gainsboro, Burly Wood, Sandy Brown and Goldenrod
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Why Agency
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Rilind Hoxha
- Country
- Macedonia
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #118886
Credits
- Team
- Rilind Hoxha - Executive Direction & Production and AnaMarija Mishachkovska - Creative Direction
- Image Credits
- Semi Alili
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Minimo by Smaragd 1969 is a structured box made from ecological paper and sustainable materials, designed for repeated use. It contains four individually packaged jewelry pieces, each secured in separate compartments. Packaging is recyclable and reusable, reducing environmental impact. The box design allows for controlled access to each compartment, maintaining the element of surprise while keeping the items protected.
- Inspiration
- The gift box takes inspiration from vintage children's gift boxes, incorporating a classic dual compartment structure that has the main gift and the complimentary merchandise. The main piece is usually jewelry, and the secondary pieces are usually coloring books and pencils, accompanied by a sticker sheet.
- Research
- The research was mostly done online with some physical inspiration from vintage advent boxes found on flea markets.
- Challenge
- The hardest part was what the theme of the gift box was gonna be. In the end, we opted for making the box design to have motifs inspired by the jewelry which is included in the boxes themselves. The second hardest part was creating an unique blueprint for the box, which was largely assisted by the production facility.
- Realization and Technology
- Sketched and Produced in Adobe Illustrator. Print execution done by hand.
- Operation and Interaction
- The front part is opened, which contains two compartments, one with a piece of jewelry, and one with special merchandise.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was initiated in the beginning of 2025, and an initial prototype was released in limited quantities. The final presented version was produced in the summer of 2025, and released in July of 2025. Production was primarily in Why Agency offices, while execution was done by AJ-Graf Matbaa in Skopje. The product was available for sale online and physically in the Smaragd stores in Skopje.
- Specifications
- 164 mm x 164 mm x 42 mm , UV laminated & ecologically colored recycled paper.
- Keywords
- Jewelry, Gifts, Luxury, Packaging, Branding, Marketing, Retail Design, Product Design
