Press Release
Xiaofengtan Liquor Packaging by Zhu Hai and Fang Jian Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Packaging Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Zhu Hai and Fang Jian for packaging design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Xiaofengtan Liquor Packaging by Zhu Hai and Fang Jian, designed for Zhu Hai, Fang Jian, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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.
About Xiaofengtan Liquor Packaging
Xiaofengtan is packaging for a high-end Chinese liquor. The bottle shape is derived from the ceramic jars traditionally used in China to store liquor, reshaped in a simple form suited to modern taste. The rounded body fits the palm of the hand, which makes the bottle easy to hold and helps prevent slipping. The golden cap has vertical corrugated lines and opens easily. Golden dots form a texture on both the bottle and the compact cube box, which measures 130 by 130 by 135 millimeters. The box is made of degradable paper, and the reduced size lowers material use.
About Zhu Hai and Fang Jian
Zhu Hai devotes himself to creating “Chinese cultural brand” and forging “city name card”. He helps clients seek for brand cultural values, create the drive force of products, and expand the market of products. He insists on digging and shaping cultural resources, attempt to promote enterprise brand values and utilize cultural significance and visual techniques to create more Chinese brands which represent the unique charm of Chinese culture.
Award Record
This recognition makes Zhu Hai and Fang Jian a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/131479
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/131479
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!131479
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/317420
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Xiaofengtan Liquor Packaging
- Function
- Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Chocolate, Dark Orange, Coral, Orange Red and White
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhu Hai, Fang Jian
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zhu Hai and Fang Jian
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #131479
Credits
- Team
- Hai Zhu and Jian Fang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- SANVINGA Xiaofengtan is a high-end Jiang-flavored liquor, whose body derives from the ceramic liquor jar commonly used by the Chinese. It impresses with a compact cube packaging, which, together with the bottle body, is decorated by texture formed by golden dots, echoing with each other, while the main color, orange, provides a strong sense of integrity and association.
- Inspiration
- Its body is derived from ceramic liquor jars commonly used for liquor storage by the Chinese, and has been reshaped in a simplistic style to make it different from spherical jars and more in line with the aesthetics of modern people. The name, Xiaofengtan, originates from Fengtan, a unique traditional Chinese liquor storage technology. What is contained in the jar is liquor, but what is carried on is the culture. It also symbolizes the indispensable sense of ceremony in Chinese wine culture.
- Research
- Liquor, for the Chinese, more than the taste, also means a kind of inheritance of the liquor culture of China. According to the study, liquor consumers commonly pursue high-end, personalized and quality liquor, while the traditional liquor cannot fully cater for their aesthetics and tastes. The brand-new packaging design of Xiaofengtan aims to blend traditional Chinese liquor culture on this base, which has showcased its confidence in Chinese culture.
- Challenge
- Being influenced by traditional ideology, the packaging of liquor is monotonous and homogeneous. How to break from this ideology is the challenge confronted by Xiaofengtan before it was designed. Inspired by ceramic liquor jars, it is groundbreaking because of its innovative packaging. The Chinese liquor culture contained in it has drawn attention of the society to traditional culture, thus inheriting and then carrying forward Chinese liquor culture.
- Realization and Technology
- By optimizing the bottle body and packaging, its size has been greatly reduced. Furthermore, the compact cube packaging is made of degradable paper which reduces consumables and costs, and implements the concept of sustainable development. In addition, its personalized proportion is innovative among the posh yet lackluster traditional liquor packaging.
- Operation and Interaction
- The rounded bottle body is designed in line with ergonomics and can perfectly fit the shape of the palm of users , which is convenient for pickup and also prevents slip. The golden cap with vertical corrugated lines opens easily.
- Project Duration and Location
- Developed in Chengdu, China in February 2020 and unveiled in Guizhou, China in August 2020.
- Keywords
- Reshape ceramic liquor jar, orange color, compact cube packaging, innovative appearance, resource-saving design.
