Grassy Premiados Coffee Packaging by Dimitri Lociks is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Silver A' Design Award in Packaging Design Competition Category.
SilverPackaging· 2022
Grassy Premiados Coffee Packaging
Client: Grassy Caffè
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Packaging Category
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About Grassy Premiados Coffee Packaging
Grassy Premiados is a packaging design for Brazilian specialty coffee. The box has organic and modular shapes inspired by mahogany seeds, coffee beans and the curves of Brazilian modernist architecture. The modular form allows stacking and a distinctive display on shelves. The box is made of cardboard with matte lamination, hot stamping and monochrome printing. The coffee is held in a plastic bag with a valve that protects the beans from oxygen. An adhesive label in metallic film seals the box and carries the product information, which allows quick customization at a low cost.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Grassy Premiados Coffee Packaging 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. Grassy Premiados Coffee Packaging 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. Grassy Premiados Coffee Packaging is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- Grassy Premium packaging was designed to allow a high impact visual display on shelves, at an affordable cost and easy to assemble, adding value to award-winning Brazilian coffees. Its organic shapes are also modular, which allows for stacking and a very differentiated way of displaying on shelves and showcases. The packaging also features an adhesive label solution, which allows for quick and varied customization of the packaging.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The assembled package is 20 centimeters wide, 14 centimeters high, and 14.5 centimeters deep.
- Tags
- package, Brazilian coffee, biomimetic, bio design,
- Production Technology
- The Grassy Premium packaging has two moments, the box was developed to be produced in large batches, to amortize the investment in graphic finishes with higher cost and added value, while the labels are manufactured on demand, in short runs. The box was designed to ensure high perceived value at a low cost. We use cardboard, matte lamination, hot stamp, and monochrome printing. The labels are made of metallic BOPP film with special printing and cutting. The coffee, as it needs special protection against oxygen and other external agents, is protected in a plastic bag with valve.
- Design Challenge
- The main challenge was to make a paper packaging that had an exceptional aesthetics, but was functional, modular and easy to use. The solutions started from a design approach inspired by nature, observing formal solutions, modulation and visual appeal in mahogany seeds and coffee beans. Another difficulty was to reconcile a very organic design with requirements of economic and productive viability. In this sense, we work together with suppliers, testing materials, printing and assembly solutions that enabled packaging with high perceived value, but low production cost.
- Research
- The project started from a briefing interview, where the client's demands were defined. We then started market research that revealed the need for a more innovative approach to designing award-winning coffees. We analyzed luxury packaging, but the final inspiration came from observing nature and studying biomimetics. After the phase of creating alternatives, we go on to validation with the client, prototyping, and testing. Then we started the budget, feasibility analysis, adjustments, closing files, prototype approval and final production phase.
- Inspiration
- The packaging design was inspired by the shapes and modulations of seeds, in addition to the curves of Brazilian modernist architecture, allowing not only a very different look for the project but also the possibility of a unique modulation. The great insight of the packaging came from a walk in the park in Brasilia, where we found a mahogany seed that sparked our gaze to other sources of solution, such as the shape of the coffee bean and the curves of the Oscar Niemeyer's architecture, resulting in the construction of an elegant and innovative Brazilian symbology.
- Project Duration
- The project lasted 6 months, with 3 months in the design phase in Brasilia, 2 months in the adjustments, budget and production phase in Santa Catarina, and another 1 month in the training and launch phase, in Sao Paulo.
- Operation Flow
- The package assembly process is simple: the first step is to place the coffee in the plastic bag, extracting the oxygen, then take the package planned for assembly, carefully reinforcing the creases. After assembling the box, we insert the bag with the coffee in it and, finally, we seal the box with an adhesive label that defines the information about the product.
- Team Members
- Designer and Creative Director: Dimitri Lociks; Design member: Simone Turíbio; Feasibility consultant: Marília Turíbio
- Image Credits
- all images and videos: photographer Dimitri Lociks, study with shadows, 2021.
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