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Six cylindrical beverage containers arranged in a gentle arc against a pristine white ground present a symphony of cultural ornamentation that transforms functional aluminum forms into vessels of…

Pepsi Culture Limited Edition Packaging by Dennis Furniss is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Golden A' Design Award in Packaging Design Competition Category.


GoldPackaging· 2021

Pepsi Culture Limited Edition Packaging

by Dennis Furniss

Client: Pepsi

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Packaging Category

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The Design

About Pepsi Culture Limited Edition Packaging

Pepsi Culture is a limited edition can series created for a soft drink brand in Mexico. The series consists of six collectible cans, and each can represents one Mexican city. Local stories, traditions and art references are translated into illustrative patterns that combine long-standing cultural symbols with a contemporary design approach. Each can is made of aluminium, holds 12 ounces and is finished with high definition offset printing. The cans are sold individually and together form a series that reflects regional diversity.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

Pepsi Culture Limited Edition 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. Pepsi Culture Limited Edition 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. Pepsi Culture Limited Edition Packaging creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Award-Winning Cultural Beverage Collections

We create limited-edition beverage collections that celebrate local cultures and traditions worldwide. Our innovative designs transform everyday refreshment into collectible art, honoring regional stories through contemporary packaging. From Mexican city tributes to global cultural celebrations, we blend heritage with modern design excellence.

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Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Celebrating the diversity of Latin America is the mantra for the Pepsi Culture can series. Through the limited-edition series PepsiCo created a unique design system that celebrates the rich and vibrant culture of six unique Mexican cities. Celebrating the uniqueness of the people and the individuality of each cities ancient traditions. Leveraging a contemporary design edge the approach aligns to the brands core value of celebrating diversity.
Dimensions & Packaging
12 Oz Cans, sold individually as a series.
Tags
Packaging Design, Pepsi Culture Series, Pepsi, Mexico, Latin America
Production Technology
High definition offset printing on alluminum
Design Challenge
This initiative was very an intuitive design program that relied heavily on understanding the culture of each city. To learn and gain insights we worked diligently to understand and translate the meaningful cultural associations and the arts that thrive within each individual city. A detailed process which took 6 months to complete. This was supported by a light qualitative process to access the design approach. In the end, we recognised that cultural-art has widespread appeal and launched with the confidence of knowing we had a well designed can series.
Research
This is an ongoing program globally for the Pepsi brand, however, this is the first time we've explored hyperlocality as the theme for Design. It was a huge success with incredible results. Not only in sales volume, but also in building brand awareness and earned media. Across all social platforms we watched millions of people share posts of the series itself and millions of reposts in terms of the content we had also developed.
Inspiration
These six collectible limited-edition cans tell authentic stories from the six cities they represent in Mexico. Collectively creating a series they are inspired by local stories and traditions that make that particular region unique. Through storytelling and local art references, Pepsi brought the uniqueness of six Mexican cities together.
Project Duration
The initiative started in the fall of 2020 in Mexico with a nationwide distribution. Sales sky-rocketed which led to additional production in order to meet meet demand.
Operation Flow
Not applicable
Patents
Not applicable
Team Members
PepsiCo Design Latin America
Image Credits
All work is wholly owned by Pepsico, inclusive of; brand trademarks, visuals and graphics, intellectual property.

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