Songhua River Rice Rice Package by 33 and Branding Co., Ltd. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Packaging Design Competition Category.
SilverPackaging· 2020
Songhua River Rice Rice Package
Client: Sourceage
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Packaging Category
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About Songhua River Rice Rice Package
Songhua River Rice, is a high-end rice product under SOURCEAGE Food Group. As the traditional Chinese festival - the Spring Festival approaching, they design through a beautifully packaged rice product as gifts to customers of the Spring Festival gifts, so the overall design needs to echo the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival, highlighting the traditional Chinese cultural elements and auspicious good meaning.
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About the Silver A' Design Award
Songhua River Rice Rice Package 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. Songhua River Rice Rice Package 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. Songhua River Rice Rice Package is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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We create distinctive brand experiences through strategic design. Our Beijing-based team specializes in packaging, brand identity, and digital marketing solutions that connect with audiences. From festive gift packaging to everyday products, we transform brands with culturally resonant, award-winning designs.
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What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
koi in Chinese has the meaning of good luck or may you have the prosperity in the new year. We use koi as the main form of the product, and extract the elements of water, light and earth into it, we redesign the traditional culture language to form a visual language. At the same time, we extract the koi 's visual color, putting up the perfect combination with the pattern to achieve the overall visual effect and product unique selling point, the origin of complement each other's purpose.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
koi represents the beauty of the common sense in China, we create this striking unique graphics, good wishes and eye-catching colors of unity. While designing packaging, we are more particular about the material process to make it different. We use a unique fine lines of pearl paper, in order to better highlight the smoothness and texture, as well as the use of laser cutting process with artificial, so that scales slightly turned up, making the entire packaging more three-dimensional appearance.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I will inform my customers and we will celebrate together to see if we can further promote their sales.
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Songhuajiang rice was the high-class rice from Suyuan Food Group. They produced the well-packaged rice as corporate gifts at Chinese new year approach. Therefore, the package design should satisfy the festival atmosphere，display the traditional Chinese culture elements, and spread the good moral.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 210mm x Depth 40mm x Height 160mm
- Tags
- Package，China，Rice，Food，Festival，Cultural
- Production Technology
- The reason why this packaging was unique not only because its shape was unusual, but also its materials was special. In order to improve the quality and smoothness of packaging, they chose the fine pearl paper and used laser cutting technology, which made the scales of Koi more clear and the whole packaging more three-dimensional and vivd.
- Design Challenge
- Most rice packages in China are made in plastic bags. As a New Year gift, this kind of rice has not only Chinese traditional elements but also high-end auspicious implications, which is difficult to package. After the originality is determined as Koi carp, the requirements for subsequent materials and production technology are also very high. Through continuous cutting pressure testing, we finally achieve the effect of complete scaling without cutting off.
- Research
- This striking unique packagings are both creative and aesthetical alongside with a good moral, keeping a deep impression to the consumers. It helps enhancing the customer's favor for the brand, as well as the brand marketers to complete a successful marketing.
- Inspiration
- Koi means good luck in China. Therefore, combining the water, light, earth, and other elements, they picked up Koi as the packaging form. In addition, they inosculated patterns and color features of Koi for satisfying the overall visual effect.
- Project Duration
- The project started in September 2018 in Beijing and finished in December 2018 in Beijing, and was exhibited in Supermarket in December 2018.
- Operation Flow
- By comparing the effects of various papers, they finally adopted fine-grained Pearl paper, which can better highlight the texture of smoothness and brightness, as well as the combination of laser cutting technology and manual, to make the scales turn up slightly, so that the whole packaging has a more three-dimensional sense.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to 33 and branding, 2019.
- Team Members
- Xiaowei Zhang
Jing Xu
Zengwei Qin
Jingyan Li - Image Credits
- Main Image: Photographer Jing Xu, Songhua River, 2019.
Image #1: Photographer Jing Xu, Songhua River, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Jing Xu, Songhua River, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Jing Xu, Songhua River, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Jing Xu, Songhua River, 2019.
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