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Terra Oliva Verpackung by Ioannis Malikoutsakis

Terra Oliva Verpackung by Ioannis Malikoutsakis is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Bronze in Verpackungsdesign Competition Category.


BronzeVerpackung· 2021

Terra Oliva Verpackung

by Ioannis Malikoutsakis

Client: Vittorakis & Co Olive Oil Mill

A' Design Award in Bronze Winner in Verpackung Category

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The Design

About Terra Oliva Verpackung

Dies ist eine individuell gestaltete Olivenöl-Tonflasche. Die Idee dahinter ist, sehr elegant zu sein und von Benutzern wiederverwendet zu werden. Tonmaterial wurde ausgewählt, um auf die Herkunft dieses gesegneten Produkts, den kretischen Boden, hinzuweisen. Das Land, das diesem Produkt seinen besonderen Geschmack und seine besonderen Eigenschaften verleiht. Diese Verpackung ist in zwei Varianten erhältlich. Eines mit nur dem Logo vorne und nur den seitlichen Symbolen und begleitet von einer kleinen Etikette, die mit einer Schnur am Flaschenhals befestigt ist und so zu einem dekorativen Schmuckstück wird. Oder mit allen Details wie auf den Fotos.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Bronze

Terra Oliva Verpackung ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Bronze, einer hochprestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für herausragende Designs, die sich durch Kreativität, Einfallsreichtum und Scharfsinn auszeichnen. Bronze-Gewinner sind reichlich geschickte und auffallend kreative Artefakte, die die große Erfahrung, Fantasie und Findigkeit ihrer Designer belegen. Von Terra Oliva Verpackung wird erwartet, dass es ein hochgeschätztes, bewundertes und geliebtes Objekt ist, das bemerkenswert professionell und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Bronze prämierte Design verkörpert bewährte Verfahren in Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie und ist hervorragend in seiner Liebe zum Detail. Terra Oliva Verpackung befriedigt Bedürfnisse auf großartige Weise, berührt Wünsche, bezaubert Gefühle und spricht die Neugier an.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
This is a custom-designed olive oil clay bottle. The idea behind it is to be very elegant and to be reused by users. Clay material was selected in order to suggest the origin of this blessed product, the Cretan soil. The land that gives the special taste and characteristics of this product.
Dimensions & Packaging
The shape of the bottle helps to take as much space as possible when stored by the producer. So more bottles fit in less space.
Tags
Oilve Oil, packagin, design, re-usable
Production Technology
The brand has two distinctive elements given by its own name. TERRA - earth and OLIVA - olive which translates to Land of Olive. The brand was approached differently with simple modern lines that give memorable shapes.
Design Challenge
The main challenge was the high cost of this custom-made bottle and finding a Greek manufacturer for this.
Research
The research started with visual elements of Cycladic art, modern and ancient. After exploring many shapes of bottles this was the optimal design. The design process also contained some other design elements such as icons that embrace the brand.
Inspiration
The inspiration came from Cycladic art, which has minimal lines. Thus the bottle was designed in such a way to depict this minimalism.
Project Duration
The project started in April 2014 and took about 3 weeks for the design to be completed. This was done in Chania, Crete, Greece.
Operation Flow
The bottle is to be re-used as an elegant piece of kitchen utensil. The use is straightforward. There is a special notch on the top of the bottle in order to make olive oil flow easily without making a mess.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Ioannis Malikoutsakis, 2014-2021
Image Credits
Image #1: Creator Ioannis Malikoutsakis, Terra Oliva Bottle, 2014.
Image #2: Creator Ioannis Malikoutsakis, Terra Oliva Bottle, 2014.
Image #3: Creator Ioannis Malikoutsakis, Terra Oliva Bottle, 2014.
Image #4: Creator Ioannis Malikoutsakis, Terra Oliva Bottle, 2014.
Image #5: Creator Ioannis Malikoutsakis, Terra Oliva Bottle, 2014.

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