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Cascahuin Tequila by Humberto Garcia

Cascahuin Tequila by Humberto Garcia is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Packaging Design Competition Category.


SilverPackaging· 2021

Cascahuin Tequila

by Humberto Garcia

Client: Tequila Cascahuín

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Packaging Category

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The Design

About Cascahuin Tequila

Cascahuin is a bottle designed for tequila. The mouth, ring and neck of the bottle were modified so that the sealing system works with a cork stopper. The brand icon is applied in high relief on the neck, which gives the package a characteristic seal. The glass container is produced by blow molding, with sodium-calcium glass as the base material. The stopper is made from selected natural cork grains inked with food grade vegetable pigments. The bottle measures 70 by 70 by 260 millimeters. The design takes inspiration from pre-Hispanic crafts, materials and the reading of the stars.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Cascahuin Tequila is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Cascahuin Tequila is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Cascahuin Tequila is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The process of developing the customized package consisted of making modifications to the mouth, ring, and neck of the bottle so that the sealing system works by means of a cork stopper, in addition to placing the icon designed for the brand in high relief on the neck of the bottle, which gives it a subtle strength and characteristic seal of the package.
Dimensions & Packaging
the dimensions of the packaging are as follows:
70 mm x 70 mm x 260 mm
Tags
design, product design, graphic design, art direction, tequila, bottle, visual design
Production Technology
The production process of the glass container will be carried out by blow molding. The standardization of the base material considers its base in sodium-calcium glass.
For the stopper - cork is produced a type Spark, developed to measure, using selected natural cork grains and inked with food grade vegetable pigments.
Design Challenge
One of the obstacles that we presented in the development of the bottle was the manufacture in blown glass, since it was very important to have the details with quality and fineness as well as the cork carved in stone.
Research
The graphic identity of Tequila Cascahuín was developed from the conceptualization of three elements that affect the agricultural processes of the blue agave: the earth, the stars and time.

To talk about the earth, pastel pigments were used for the development of the graphic variables, reading the accidents and qualities of this material; like the one that decomposes organically achieving pulverization, silences and tonalities of earthy sensations.

The game with the stars invites to conceive the cycles of cultivation as a rhythm that frames the agave landscape in nights and days, crickets and cicadas, rain and sleep.
Determine the auspicious times, of planting, cultivation and harvest.

Time marks the fullness and aging, which is represented by a bowl, a small cup with a concave shape made of clay, guaje or wood; used by our pre-Hispanic ancestors. The symbol of the bowl represents the matrix, the origin. In our ancestral tradition, the jícaras and vessels were used mainly as containers for water and food, they are the guardians of life over time.
Inspiration
The inspiration comes from our pre-Hispanic ancestors, their crafts, their materials and the use of the stars for each decision making
Project Duration
The project started in April 2020 in Mexico and finished in September 2020 in Mexico
Team Members
Creative Director: Ana Paula Santana
Product Designer: Irving Jimenez
Image Credits
All photos: Irving Jimenez & Humberto Vanhuten

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