Press Release
Tiger Pan Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Jianlibao Wepop Sugar-free Sparkling Water in Packaging Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Tiger Pan of Tigerpan Design Lab. for packaging design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Jianlibao Wepop Sugar-free Sparkling Water by Tiger Pan of Tigerpan Design Lab., designed for Jianlibao, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Jianlibao Wepop Sugar-free Sparkling Water
Wepop is packaging designed for a sugar-free fruity sparkling water. The PET bottle has a simple shape that becomes narrower towards the top. A silk-screen matte film gives the surface a stable grip and a soft feel. The typeface uses a pixel effect, and each character is split into separate strokes that act as building blocks. Fruits are illustrated in a pop art style, with contrasting colors of high purity marking the four flavors. The packaging aims to present a healthy drink to young consumers.
About Tiger Pan
Tiger Pan, renowned designer and founder of Tiger Pan Design Lab, currently serves as the Jury President for D&AD 2024 in Packaging Design. He is also a contracted artist for the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA), a collaborative artist with the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), a partner artist with the Liechtenstein Postal Service, and a co-branded artist with BVLGARI. Additionally, he holds the role of Vice Chairman of the Shenzhen Illustration Association and serves as a guest professor at 18 prestigious design academies across China. Over the past 28 years, Tiger Pan has been deeply engaged in product and packaging design research and practice.
Award Record
Tiger Pan of Tigerpan Design Lab. is a winner of 18 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2019 - 2020 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Packaging Design Award
The A' Packaging Design Award is an international packaging competition that recognizes outstanding packaging designs by talented packaging designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to packaging designers, graphic designers, branding agencies and product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include bottles, boxes, cans, pouches, tubes and cartons. Awarded packaging designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/packaging
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/101162
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/101162
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!101162
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/187530
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.tigerpan.com
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Jianlibao Wepop Sugar-free Sparkling Water
- Function
- Sugar-free Sparkling Water
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- White Smoke, Midnight Blue, Light Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Jianlibao
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Tiger Pan
- Country
- China
- Brand
- Tigerpan Design Lab.
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #101162
Credits
- Team
- Tiger Pan, Yuxuan He, Niejun Guan, Qiyuan Xiao, Juanjuan Wu and Zhangkun Xie
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- With the rise of obesity rate, more consumers tend to consume healthy sugar-free and tasty beverages. So refreshing fruity sparkling waters come into vogue. Wepop, a sugar-free healthy fruity sparkling water, is now produced and launched to market by a local Chinese beverage brand.
- Inspiration
- The typeface is designed into one with pixelate effect.Characters are split out and designed separately,each stroke standing for a different building block,in which pop art is endowed with childish fun.The flexibilities of pixels or building blocks will provide a wide range of applications and combinations.Eye-catching fruits are illustrated in a pop art style to complete the package design, where colors in sharp contrast and of high purity are used to display four flavoring fruits.
- Research
- Jianlibao possesses advanced production and R&D capacity, holding rich experience in making sparkling waters and the likeness, of which, Chinese market is so far under development. Yet, consumers has grown a huge demand for healthy and low-calories products. So Jianlibao is grasping the best opportunity with the new products of young look.
- Challenge
- We aim to surprise the target consumers of Wepop. The surprise must come from both a unique package and rejuvenate attitude. Unlike the rebrand of its classic products, Wepop is created to enrich the product series and to cultivate a new brand to fit the popular and young consuming background.
- Realization and Technology
- The PET bottle is reshaped into a distinct but simple and fashionable one, whose size is getting smaller upwards. The silk-screen matte film provides a more stable holding experience and a better feel. The strict control of color printing and number results in a good display of product's quality.
- Operation and Interaction
- Building blocks and pixels are important graphic representing methods. We adopt them to achieve more effective communication with young consumers. With this new package, Jianlibao makes its way to rejuvenate the brand. We chose discreetly the materials, printing techniques, production crafts, all accessible, to bring the product to market as fast as possible. Therefore, the product will be taking advantage of its youthful and eye-catching look in the market for longer time.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project lasts 2 month, designed in Shenzhen and produced in Foshan, Guangdong.
- Specifications
- Diameter 67.5mm Height 213mm
- Keywords
- fruity beverage, sparkling water, Jianlibao, Tigerpan, bottled beverage, carbonate beverage
