Press Release
Longnanchun Chinese Baijiu by Manling Lin Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Packaging Design
Manling Lin 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/ Longnanchun Chinese Baijiu by Manling Lin, designed for Diga Creative Design, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Longnanchun Chinese Baijiu
Longnanchun is a packaging design for a series of Chinese baijiu spirits. The series has three products, named entrepreneur, founder and leader. Each bottle carries a mythical animal taken from the Dunhuang murals: the winged horse, the phoenix and the guardian dragon. The three animals reflect courage, rebirth and steady protection. The bottle form is drawn from the pipa played by the flying fairy of Dunhuang, and the colors are selected from the murals. The bottle and the lid are ceramic, and the box is acrylic.
Award Record
This recognition makes Manling Lin a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2020 - 2021 edition 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/122836
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/122836
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!122836
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/265145
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.diga-sz.com/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Longnanchun Chinese Baijiu
- Function
- Chinese Baijiu
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Linen, Silver, Tan and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Diga Creative Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Manling Lin
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #122836
Credits
- Team
- Manling Lin and Sheng Xie
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Longnanchun is a brand of Jinhui baijiu Industry which has been put on hold for a long time. This time, we will restart the brand and make a theme series of baijiu "entrepreneur's baijiu", focusing on high-end income groups. Products classification is "entrepreneurs, founders, leaders" To awaken and continue the brand awareness of that year, it is necessary to add the flavor of the times to the existing brand genes, which is both innovative and without losing the original keynote.
- Inspiration
- Longnanchun is a old chinese baijiu in Gansu. This is a series of baijju ,the name is entrepreneur, founder, and leader, and desig of Dunhuang murals around product gene. Three auspicious mythical animal in Dunhuang murals are selected as wing horse, phoenix and guardian dragon, The spiritual characteristics that fit the three stages of entrepreneurs, , from brave to rebirth to firm guard. The shape of the pipa of the bottle comes from the pipa played by the Flying Fairy of Dunhuang. The lid represents the three stages of entrepreneurship. The color matching is selected from the mural color to convey the millennium Chinese culture.
- Research
- The design and packaging needs to inherit the tonality of the past Longnanchun, and need to enhance the cultural attributes without losing the sense of dignity. Through reading a large number of Dunhuang documents to seek a breakthrough, the final effect is good. Traditional Chinese culture now needs more creative expression and more forms of carrying .
- Challenge
- In order to fit the three stages of entrepreneurs and pass the millennium of Chinese culture to the world, I consulted a large number of documentaries and Dunhuang culture. It took a lot of time to finally find the unique auspicious mythical animals in the murals to fit the theme. Also combined with flying ribbon elements to reflect.
- Realization and Technology
- Ceramic bottle, ceramic lid, acrylic box
- Operation and Interaction
- Reading related Dunhuang documentaries and murals, looking for distinctive design elements, expressing historical heritage and high-level sense, and finally selected three beasts, Wing Horse, Phoenix and Shenlong, highlighting the three entrepreneurs Traits-Brave" Rebirth and Perseverance"
- Project Duration and Location
- 2020.05.15-2021.09.25
- Keywords
- Dunhuang，Heavenly Fairy Bounces Pipa ， Entrepreneurs, founders, Leader
