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Mountain Dew Hard Dew 2024 Beverage - Alcoholic by PepsiCo Design and Innovation is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Golden A' Design Award in Packaging Design Competition Category.


GoldPackaging· 2025

Mountain Dew Hard Dew 2024 Beverage - Alcoholic

by PepsiCo Design and Innovation

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Packaging Category

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Verified Award Winner

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The Design

About Mountain Dew Hard Dew 2024 Beverage - Alcoholic

Hard Dew 2024 is a packaging design for a ready to drink alcoholic beverage made for adult consumers. The design extends the energy of the Mountain Dew brand into an adult oriented form. The United States version draws on biker tattoo art. The Asia-Pacific version develops the same idea through a dragon, another common tattoo subject. The dragon is shown in bright blue and glimmering green to give the container a bold and lively character. The packaging is intended to present a familiar brand attitude to adult drinkers.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

Mountain Dew Hard Dew 2024 Beverage - Alcoholic 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. Mountain Dew Hard Dew 2024 Beverage - Alcoholic 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. Mountain Dew Hard Dew 2024 Beverage - Alcoholic creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Unique Properties
The Mountain Dew faithful around the world like to live it up every day and every night. For passionate Dew drinkers with a taste for fun, we redefined the meaning of “Do the Dew” by giving adults the chance to say hard yes to HARD DEW.
Inspiration
Channeling the iconic MTN DEW energy, we set our sights on a new adult-oriented avatar that could extend the attitude to HARD DEW. The lively U.S. design took inspiration from biker tattoos — a jumping-off point for the Asia-Pacific design, which landed on another popular tattoo design: dragons. In bright blue and glimmering green, the fierce, fantastical creature helped add some fire to the new ready-to-drink alcoholic beverage.

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