(SM Entertainment)

Album covers for SM Entertainment idol groups EXO, Super Junior and f(X) were chosen as grand prize winners at one of the three most prestigious design awards in the world ? Germany’s 2016 iF Product Design Award.

The award-winning album cover designs are those for the special edition of Super Junior’s seventh album “This Is Love,” f(X)’s fourth album, “4 Walls,” and EXO’s Christmas album, “Miracles in December.” All three of them were nominated for the packaging design category. Not only did SM receive international praise for their album cover designs, an interior design award went to the company’s lifestyle shop, “Stardium.”

However, this is not the first time SM Entertainment has won a noteworthy design award. SM has taken home awards from the Red Dot Design Awards, another prominent design awards, in 2014 for album covers designed for Super Junior, Girls’ Generation and SHINee. This makes them recipients of a total of eight design awards.

By Jung Min-kyung (mkj1105@heraldcorp.com)