Ucon Natural Mineral Water by Chi Forest is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Golden A' Design Award in Packaging Design Competition Category.
GoldPackaging· 2022
Ucon Natural Mineral Water
by Chi Forest
Client: Ucon
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Packaging Category
Verified Award Winner
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About Ucon Natural Mineral Water
Ucon is a bottle design for natural mineral water. The upper part of the bottle takes stone as the main visual symbol, while the lower part uses a faceted ore form based on a parametric triangular surface. The two parts create contrast and remain harmonious as a whole. The cut edges are kept smooth to give a comfortable grip. The label is printed with water-based ink to reduce emissions from the printing process, and a pearlized film shows black rock, white dot and gold stripe textures. The bottle measures 64 by 64 by 220 millimeters.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
Ucon Natural Mineral Water 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. Ucon Natural Mineral Water 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. Ucon Natural Mineral Water creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Where to Get It
Premium Natural Mineral Water Collection
We craft award-winning mineral water sourced from protected springs and filtered through natural ore formations. Our innovative packaging and exceptional quality deliver a pure, refreshing experience with essential minerals for modern lifestyles.
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- Unique Properties
- It is the first high-quality drinking water brand featuring soft mineral water in China. The upper part of the bottle body takes "stone" as the super symbol, and the lower part uses the special ore bottle body design based on the parametric design of triangular plane. The overall design of the two parts shows harmony while having contrast.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 64mm x 64mm x 220mm
- Tags
- Branding, Packaging, Can, 3D, Mineral Water
- Production Technology
- The label adopts advanced adagio printing technology, using environmentally friendly water-based ink. Greatly reduce the label production process of pollution emissions.
fully closed water source protection area, to ensure pollution-free water source.
The use of advanced blowing, filling and rotating production line, high cleanliness of the filling environment, to ensure that the filling process clean pollution-free. - Design Challenge
- 1. Label
In order to visually best present the black rock texture, white dot texture and gold stripe texture, we finally chose the Pearlized BOPP. The upper part shows the brand visual symbol "stone", and the lower part shows the stone texture of the bottle body.
2. Bottle
Bottle design through the depiction of stone structure, based on the design of triangular surface, forming a contrast between the upper and lower . overall showing the harmony of the overall design, making the edge surface not too rough, while ensuring the aesthetic feeling and grip comfort. - Research
- Memory come from the subtraction of visalization, the birth of label "stone".Minimalism is deep in Chinese culture. We found that the "stone" is not only meets the needs of identification, but also perfectly interprets the brand story of "Every drop of water is naturally filtered through underground deep ore". Subtraction could make memorisation, the white space is a powerful attitude. This attitude is reflected in the name of our product as well as in the new generation of consumers.
- Inspiration
- Purified water by stones,Ore is the best proof of good water The soft water is filtered through dense layers of hard ore After absorbing mineral ions from the ore, it gushes out of the ground. It becomes a real high quality natural mineral water.
In chinese fengshui theory, stone is naturally exist , absorb the essence of the sun and the moon In thousand years, people admire stone and obtained energy from the spiritual stone ,"Stone" also means avoid disasters , turn misfortune to lucky - Project Duration
- The project started in OCT 2020, and completed in July, 2021. The design was completed in December, 2021. The production location is Dali and Laoshan.
- Operation Flow
- From the bottle design, the ore cutting design fully shows the aesthetic feeling, but also to ensure the user's comfortable grip. In addition, "UCON" in Chinese named with social constitution, is a natural "social currency", focusing on the young . There are stories, can quickly form a social topic among young people.
- Patents
- Patents number：2021308675699（Application has been submitted and is under review）
Trademark：42724486 - Team Members
- Shuo Qu, Yuxin Jia, Xiaolan Xiao, Qian Li, Kaiwen Zhang, Pu Han
- Image Credits
- Shuo Qu, Yuxin Jia, Xiaolan Xiao,Pu Han
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