Johnnie Walker Limited Edition Packaging by Ofen Hu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Golden A' Design Award in Packaging Design Competition Category.
GoldPackaging· 2022
Johnnie Walker Limited Edition Packaging
by Ofen Hu
Client: Diageo Foreign Wine Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Packaging Category
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About Johnnie Walker Limited Edition Packaging
Johnnie Walker Limited Edition is a gift packaging design for a whisky bottle released for the Mid-Autumn Festival in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival is an important time for family reunion, so the themes are home, reunion and emotion. The design draws on the doors and windows of traditional Chinese architecture. The outer box opens as a double door, held closed by a magnet button in the centre, and reveals the bottle inside. Orchids, butterflies and auspicious clouds are depicted. Gilding and laser cutting are used on the box, and sandblasting is applied to the bottle.
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About the Golden A' Design Award
Johnnie Walker 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. Johnnie Walker 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. Johnnie Walker Limited Edition Packaging creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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- Unique Properties
- This is a Johnnie Walker Blue Label 2021 Mid-Autumn Festival Limited Edition gift. The Mid-Autumn Festival is an important festival for family reunion in China. The key words are home, reunion and emotion. Slogan is "EMOTIONS COME FROM BLUE". The design inspiration comes from the door and window in traditional Chinese architecture. The outer packaging design adopts double-door opening box, when the door is opened, you can see the home directly, expressing reunion and emotion. When the lid opened, the picture of orchids blooming in the courtyard is also similar to the "Chinese Pingfeng".
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Length 15cm width 11.5cm height 36cm
- Tags
- Whisky, Packaging, Packaging Design, JOHNNIE WALKER BLUE Lab, Mid-Autumn Festival, China, Art, Painting
- Production Technology
- The packaging uses gilding and excitation techniques, as well as laser cutout technology to handle the visual senses of the packaging. Sandblasting technology was used on the bottle
- Design Challenge
- The most difficult parts of this packaging design are the size of the windows and the hardness of the paper, which needs to be aesthetic while taking supporting and protecting function that is critical during shipping into account. During the design process, the design of the windows was repeatedly adjusted and packaging production attempts were made.
- Research
- In the packaging design, traditional Chinese wooden windows are used as the main vision of the outer packaging. Orchids, butterflies and Chinese auspicious clouds are the main depicting objects. Towering pavilions are built near the moon. The designer wishes to combine the auspicious cloud patterns with the lines of cake rolls, providing an unique visual experience. Blue is the brand symbol of JOHNNIE WALKER. Blue and orchids have the same pronunciation in Chinese, and are equated in the depiction. Orchids also symbolize “gentlemen” in Chinese culture since The Book of Songs is created.
- Inspiration
- "EMOTIONS COME FROM BLUE" comes from the Chinese idiom “blue is extracted from the indigo plant, but is bluer than it”. By creating through such themes, and adopting the culture of Mid-Autumn Festival, the designer temps to reflect how the people are becoming better and better by generation. The scene of the moonlight flattering some orchids in a courtyard is observed by looking through the gaps of the wooden windows that are traditionally built in Chinese courtyards. This helps presenting an intriguing experience of the traditional Chinese festival.
- Project Duration
- Started on March 17, 2021, completed in Shenzhen on April 30, 2021, entered the market in October 2021
- Operation Flow
- The package is opened to the left and right. There is a magnet button in the middle, which lets the package open after it is unbuttoned. Expanding the outer package reveals the inner bottle design.
- Team Members
- Designer: Ofen Hu
Illustrator: Chushan Chan
Curator: Aha Chan - Image Credits
- Image：Diageo Foreign Wine Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
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