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Wu yao's Challenger Alcoholic Beverage Packaging presents an extraordinary synthesis of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary design sophistication, featuring two elegantly proportioned…

Challenger Alcoholic Beverage Packaging by Yao Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Silver A' Design Award in Packaging Design Competition Category.


SilverPackaging· 2024

Challenger Alcoholic Beverage Packaging

by Yao Wu

Client: Beijing Wuyao Cultural and Creative Co. Ltd.

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Packaging Category

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The Design

About Challenger Alcoholic Beverage Packaging

Challenger is a packaging design for a pair of spirits bottles. The design draws on two classic Chinese mythological stories, Nezha in the Dragon Palace and Wukong in the Heavenly Palace, and conveys a spirit of daring to challenge. The bottles are orange and blue and carry themed illustrations. The box is dark blue with gold rims, and elements representing Wukong and Nezha are printed on the front with embossing and gold stamping. The box opens as a double door at an oblique angle of 60 degrees and then stands upright on a flat surface.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Challenger Alcoholic Beverage 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. Challenger Alcoholic Beverage 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. Challenger Alcoholic Beverage Packaging is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
This is a spirits packaging design which uses two classic mythological stories Wukong and Nezha. The color of the illustrated bottle on the bottle orange and blue and the packaging box is dark blue with gold rims The front of the packaging box is printed with elements representing Wukong and Nezha and the craftsmanship is embossed with gold stamping.
Dimensions & Packaging
Packaging box 30cm*12cm*22cm.
Tags
Challenger, Package design, Chinese Mythology, Chinese spirits
Production Technology
The main color of the bottle is orange and blue, and the bottle has themed illustrations printed on it. The theme color of the packaging box is dark blue, with embossed hot stamping technology on the edges, elemental symbols representing Wukong and Nezha printed on the front, and embossing technology to show gold and red decorative patterns. The packaging box adopts a double-door box opening method. The inside of the packaging box is printed with dark blue dark patterns corresponding to the theme, and Chinese poems are printed in hot stamping.
Design Challenge
The main challenge of this design is how to present these two classic mythological stories in a unique form on the bottle body and how to choose the material and craftsmanship of the external packaging box The painting form should fit the product and the craftsmanship selection should not be too complex but also reflect delicacy
Research
This is a double bottle spirits packaging design based on the Chinese mythological stories. The protagonists of the two stories have a spirit of courage to challenge and this spirit coincides with Shede spirits industry myth series . The bottle color of this design is orange and blue and the process adopts the way of gold stamping . This packaging box is opened in a different way . Packaging box is also made of dark blue with gold trim and the gilded Shed logo is printed on elements with two classic mythological stories making the design more integrated while reflecting the quality of Shede spirits industry over the years
Inspiration
The inspiration comes from the classic Chinese mythological stories of Nezha causing havoc in the Dragon Palace and Wukong causing havoc in the Heavenly Palace . The spirit of daring to challenge conveyed by it coincides with the concept of Shede brand this time. Drawing two stories into illustrations and printing them on the bottle not only looks beautiful but also gives deeper meaning to the bottle, and better reflects the charm of mythological stories.
Project Duration
The project began in May 2022 in Beijing and was completed in July 2022.
Operation Flow
The packaging box adopts a double-door opening method. Different from the traditional forward opening angle, it adopts an oblique 60-degree opening method. After the packaging box is opened, it can stand upright on a flat surface.
Team Members
Original designer:Wu Yao
Illustration designer:Zhang yuchen
Illustration designer:Xie boxing
Graphic designer:Zheng ziyang
Graphic designer:Shi huafeng
Graphic designer:Tan zhen
3D designer:Liao hao

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