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Crystalline transparency and cerulean chromatic gradients define Backbone Branding's Kum-Kum Water Packaging, where two sculptural polyethylene terephthalate vessels occupy the compositional field…

Kum-Kum Water Packaging by Backbone Branding is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Golden A' Design Award in Packaging Design Competition Category.


GoldPackaging· 2021

Kum-Kum Water Packaging

by Backbone Branding

Client: Backbone Branding

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Packaging Category

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The Design

About Kum-Kum Water Packaging

The bottle has symmetrical droplets on its four sides, two facing upward and two facing downward, which shape the form of water in its dynamic substantiation. As for the label and logo, Backbone Branding has created a combination of a label and a filled bottle, which shows the transparency and plasticity of the water in its dynamics. The blue tint of the back label blends harmoniously with the bottle and, thanks to the refraction of light through the liquid, makes the bottle visible, and the brand's white logo on the transparent label becomes apparent due to the blue-tinted back label.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

Kum-Kum Water Packaging is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Kum-Kum Water Packaging is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Kum-Kum Water Packaging creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The uniqueness of the project lies in the fact that it is difficult to figure out where the structure of the bottle has started and where it has ended.
The structure, design, selected colors, transparency, label, and logo - all form a solid entity with the water inside.
When rotated the bottle transforms into a drop of water in movement.
Dimensions & Packaging
Width 65mm x Depth 55mm x Height 320mm
Tags
water, transparency, minimalism, structure, packaging, design, dynamics
Production Technology
PET bottle
Transparent label
Design Challenge
Our goal was to showcase the characteristics of water and make them emerge through our design. It needed to be different and stand out from the other brands.
The technology for this new structural design manufacturing is new in Armenia. Initially, the bottle is not cylindrical, its design has a shape similar to a rectangular prism with a droplet-like shape inside it. Whenever we created the design, it faced some difficulties in printing houses and we were compelled to change it 2 times, after which the printing house ordered a new printing machine to be able to get the result according to the design.
Research
Many experiments have been conducted to make this plastic bottle reflect the characteristics of water and make them emerge through our design. The structure of the bottle has been created per consequence of observation of the water in its dynamic state: its movement has become the structure of our bottle.
The label and logo, are designed in order to help show the transparency and plasticity of the water in its dynamics.
Inspiration
The inspiration was drawn from the unique attributes of water, from its transparency to minimalism and its appearance as a droplet when it is in a dynamic state.
Therefore, the form of the falling water droplet was incorporated into the design of the bottle, giving the whole structure a dynamic shape.
Project Duration
The project started in September 2019 in Yerevan, Armenia, and finished in February 2019.
Operation Flow
It breaks the all-known stereotypes of the water bottle and gives tribute to the water by being the simulation of the form and transparency of the water.
Team Members
Creative Director: Stepan Azaryan
Designer: Mariam Stepanyan
Content Writer: Grace Jerejian
Video Maker: Levon Manukyan
Video Editor: Levmotion
Image Credits
All photo credits to Backbone Branding
Video Credits: Levon Manukyan, Kum-Kum, 2019
Video Editor: Levmotion

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