Ocean Blue Alcoholic Beverage Packaging by Jingzhang Xiao and Dongyan Ruan

Ocean Blue Alcoholic Beverage Packaging by Jingzhang Xiao and Dongyan Ruan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Packaging Design Competition Category.

BronzePackaging· 2023

Ocean Blue Alcoholic Beverage Packaging

by Jingzhang Xiao and Dongyan Ruan

Client: Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery Co., Ltd

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Packaging Category

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The Design

About Ocean Blue Alcoholic Beverage Packaging

Ocean Blue is a packaging design for a baijiu spirit. The bottle follows the proportions of the Fibonacci spiral, giving a balanced and dynamic form that is easy to hold and open. The upper part is finished with golden sparks that recall beach sand, while the lower part is coloured in sea blue. Copper plate lithography, cat-eye making and embossing are used to improve the surface texture. The outer box is made of grey board paper with a white board interior, a foam pad and a woven blister. A coded system links each bottle, box and case to help protect the product from counterfeiting.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Ocean Blue 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. Ocean Blue 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. Ocean Blue Alcoholic Beverage Packaging splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

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Color Temperature: Slightly CoolSymmetry: PartialBackground: Left and Right

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The bottle is so exquisite that the liquor inside feels like a vast ocean. The bottle body remains in the golden ratio shape of waves. The shape of the bottle is flexible and smooth, following the principles of rational aesthetics. The golden rule of "Fibonacci spiral" is used to modify the ratio of the wine bottle to create a more balanced, elegant and dynamic super golden ratio of "point, line and surface", which is convenient for users to hold and open, and meets the ergonomics design.The industry's first copper plate lithography in designing baijiu bottles. Other techniques like cat-eye making and embossing are also adopted in the design to give the bottle a better texture. It will give customers a brand-new experience.
Dimensions & Packaging: 140mmx115mmx320mm，
Tags: crafts, Baijiu, spirit, packaging, art
Production Technology: Bottle: blue material, weight 510g
Cap: The materials used for the various parts of the cap contain PS, ABS, PC, PE or EPE.
Box: The outer box is grey board paper containing positioned photo-engraved paper with a blister top; the interior is mounted on white board paper; with a foam pad and woven blister.
Design Challenge: Nearly 100 million bottles of the product are sold annually with its shoddy knock-offs rife in the market. This design is focused on anti-counterfeiting. The newly designed product includes a utility model patent for a composite buckle, which consists of an assembly part, a cross-linking part, and a connecting part. The buckle is made of plastic injection molding, with a hole set on its cross-linking part and a metal insert rod in the hole.
Research: In-depth market research through online questionnaires and offline seminars to analyse the memory points and shortcomings of Ocean Blue packaging. Memorable points such as the "Ocean Blue main visual symbol and its classic streamlined bottle" should be continued; But the box material is soft, the colour gradation is quite grey and dull, and the bottle label lacks details and texture.
The upgrade of Ocean Blue inherits the memory points, improves the deficiencies and combines modern and stylish design, to enhance the overall quality and grade. The focus is on upgrading the outer boxes, bottle labels, handbags and outer cases.
Inspiration: The elements of sea and beach are highlighted in the design of the bottle. The upper part is painted with golden sparks, an association with beach sand. The sparks symbolize ideals. The lower part is colored in sea blue. It symbolizes fights for hope. The overall design demonstrates a "youth, vigor, optimism and ambition" image, demonstrating the consistency of quality and brand appeal.
Project Duration: 2021-May.2022,Nanjing,Jiangsu
The project started in August 2021 in Nanjing,Jiangsu and finished in May 2019, Nanjing, Jiangsu.
Operation Flow: The four codes of 1+6+6+6 are used to digitally correlate the inner and outer cap , box and case. 1 case code to 6 bottle codes + 6 box codes, each bottle code and box code corresponds to the other.
Team Members: Creative Director：Liandong Zhang；
Creative Director：Huashuang Liu；
Creative Director：Zhaoxin Zhu；
Designer：Jingzhang Xiao；
Designer：Ru Li；
Designer：Aizong Lin