Press Release
Dream of the Blue M6 Plus Baijiu Packaging by Huashuang Liu and Jingzhang Xiao Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Packaging Design
Huashuang Liu and Jingzhang Xiao recognized for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Dream of the Blue M6 Plus Baijiu Packaging by Huashuang Liu and Jingzhang Xiao, designed for Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery Co., Ltd, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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 Dream of the Blue M6 Plus Baijiu Packaging
Dream of the Blue M6 Plus adopts a luxury design which reflects a modern aesthetics. The blue bottle and gold label with a drip decoration shows a low-key luxury and brings out international taste. It takes "Dream Drop" as the origin of creativity, uses water drop bottle and crystal cover as the styling symbol. The structure is natural and the transition is smooth from top to bottom. With the innovative technology and more high-grade texture of material, the quality has also highly improved. The design integrates modeling, color, craftsmanship and ergonomic function.
Award Record
With this recognition, Huashuang Liu and Jingzhang Xiao is a winner of 17 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2019 - 2020 and the 2020 - 2021 editions 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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to packaging designers, graphic designers, branding agencies and product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include bottles, boxes, cans, pouches, tubes and cartons. The awarded packaging designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/packaging
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/110718
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/110718
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!110718
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/249896
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Dream of the Blue M6 Plus Baijiu Packaging
- Function
- Baijiu Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Midnight Blue, Dark Slate Blue and Royal Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Huashuang Liu and Jingzhang Xiao
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #110718
Credits
- Team
- Huashuang Liu, Xueqian Zhang and Jingzhang Xiao
- Image Credits
- Photographer Huashuang Liu, Dream of the Blue M6+, 2020.; Illustrator Xueqian Zhang, Dream of the Blue M6+, 2020.; Creator Jingzhang Xiao, Dream of the Blue M6+, 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Dream of the Blue M6 Plus has become a representative image of Chinese Baijiu. With the growth of consumption and economic globalization, the design of this Baijiu seeks to breakthroughs a traditional style of Chinese Baijiu. The concept of it is about high-end, valuable, stylish, and practical. The design transfers the idea of the product has a good Baijiu body with a large volume through developing a technological design and aesthetic side.
- Inspiration
- The main color of the product is blue, which continues the unique "blue culture" of Yanghe. The gold matching design is the finishing touch, creating a rich visual hierarchy. The bottle shape continues to follow the original creative concept of "Dream Drop". The structure is very beautiful and the transition is smooth from top to bottom. The design integrates modeling, color, craftsmanship, and ergonomic function, also focusing on the user's experience, the overall visual effect.
- Research
- This product meets people's needs for more refined and high-end daily necessities, also M6 Plus has become a partner of China's aerospace industry. It helps the development of aerospace and serves the society by holding several public welfare activities. Consumers' recognition of product quality, brand, packaging and other aspects, combined with Yanghe's continuous development, bring about the sustainable development of products.
- Challenge
- Focusing on high-end, valuable, stylish, and practical features, this product has been achieved several breakthroughs, such as image design、intelligent anti-counterfeiting, application of new structures and processes, and quality improvement. From "Yanghe Blue, Dream Drops, high-end quality, 550ml unique capacity, intelligent anti-counterfeiting, new patented technology" and other aspects, support the brand to create product uniqueness and differentiation.
- Realization and Technology
- 1.Cover: The general structure adopts a implosion anti-counterfeiting system; and top of the cover is peacock blue, which also adopts electroplating、gold stamping and tracing technology. The neck of cover is a combination process of electroplating、screen printing and gloss oil. 2. Bottle: Increased capacity compared the old one. It also adopts blue and gold as the design of color matching. For spraying technology, the original translucent blue upgrade to opaque matte pearl blue.
- Operation and Interaction
- This product combines intelligent anti-counterfeiting, strengthened layer by layer from outside to inside. Adopting four-in-one anti-counterfeiting Baijiu box and anti-counterfeiting cover, which are the most advanced technology in the industry. It can achieve a stronger blow to counterfeit production and sales from the front end, safeguard brand rights and interests, and make users more assured. At the same time, the high-end appearance and deep connotation of M6 Plus expresses customer's status and taste.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Novermber 2018 in Nanjing,Jiangsu and finished in November 2019, Nanjing, Jiangsu.
- Specifications
- Bottle:103 mm x 103 mm x 307.3 mm Box:154 mm x 118 mm x 345 mm
- Keywords
- crafts, Baijiu, spirit, packaging, art
