Mingluye Alcoholic Beverage Packaging by Wen Liu, Bo Zheng and Weijie Kang

Mingluye Alcoholic Beverage Packaging by Wen Liu, Bo Zheng and Weijie Kang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Bronze A' Design Award in Packaging Design Competition Category.

BronzePackaging· 2021

Mingluye Alcoholic Beverage Packaging

by Wen Liu, Bo Zheng and Weijie Kang

Client: Anhui Mingguang Liquor Co., Ltd

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Packaging Category

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The Design

About Mingluye Alcoholic Beverage Packaging

Mingluye is a packaging design for a baijiu, a traditional Chinese spirit made mainly from mung beans. The bottle shape is inspired by the mung bean, which is also used as a Chinese medicinal material. White vertical bars on the bottle recall the germ of the bean and refer to new life. The bottle body is embossed with patterns of mung bean leaves, stems and fruit, and the cap has a natural earth texture. The outer box is made of special paper with bronzing and embossing. The packaging is kept simple to limit the use of materials.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Mingluye Alcoholic Beverage Packaging is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Mingluye Alcoholic Beverage Packaging is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Mingluye Alcoholic Beverage Packaging splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: CoolSymmetry: VerticalBackground: Top and Bottom

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Mingluye is a "Minglu Flavor" baijiu produced by Anhui Mingguang Liquor Industry Co., Ltd. using the ancient craftsmanship from the Southern Song Dynasty, with a mung bean as the main raw material.
Dimensions & Packaging: 130mm*100mm*280mm
Tags: Mingguang Liquor, Baijiu, Baijiu Packaging, Mingluye
Production Technology: The bottle cap adopts natural earth-textured plastic cap, the embossed texture of the bottle body adopts delicate and textured mung bean leaves, stems and fruit as the patterns. The main product name is in the form of a glue card, which is crystal clear and is the unique visual symbol of the product. The box material is special paper, the craft is bronzing and embossing.
Design Challenge: This product breaks through the traditional Chinese baijiu packaging form. In the Chinese market, many packaging is very old-fashion, and a bit over-packaged, too exaggerated, not suitable for the aesthetics of current young consumers and the development trend of environmental protection and recycling. So in the process of design, the packaging materials and processes can be simplified as much as possible, and the consumption should return to the quality of the product itself, rather than the gorgeous packaging, which causes a waste of resources. Let consumers and customers change their awareness of product packaging.
Research: In the era of high homogeneity of traditional Chinese baijiu, how to express and differentiate similar products with the visual language that is easy to understand by current consumers requires serious consideration. Designers collected big data using online questionnaire surveys and offline search methods. After analysis, it is found that consumers are not very familiar with Minglu-flavor baijiu, so how to express it in easy-to-understand visual language is very important.
Inspiration: The bottle shape is inspired by mung beans, the raw material for baijiu making. Mung beans are Chinese medicinal materials and have the effect of Heat-clearing and Detoxifying. The bionic design method is used for innovative evolution to highlight the beauty of the natural ecology of the bottle. The white vertical bars of the bottle are inspired by the germ of the mung beans, which symbolizes a new life.
Project Duration: The project began in Shenzhen, China in September 2019 and completed in Shenzhen, China in January 2020.
Operation Flow: During the design period, designers carefully observed and studied the mung bean, and found that the shape is full and the color is mainly green. The white vertical strip in the middle of the mung bean is its germ. Therefore, they want to present it in the most direct and understandable way.
Team Members: Designer: Wen Liu
Designer: Bo Zheng
Designer: Weijie Kang