Jin Zhang Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Jinlongquan Beer Gift Box in Packaging Design

Jin Zhang recognized for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category for Jinlongquan Beer Gift Box by Jin Zhang, designed for InBev jinlongquan beer (Hubei) Co., Ltd. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 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.

About the Bronze A' Design Award

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 Jinlongquan Beer Gift Box

This gift box uses the most popular recorder in the 1980s as the creation prototype, which will remind many people, including young people, of their memories and achieve good emotional interaction. The designer used corrugated cardboard box to design, which is practical, environment-friendly and cost saving. At the same time, he skillfully opened three round holes on the front of the gift box, which can intuitively see different types of beer products inside, achieving a three-layer design of emotion, environmental protection and function.

About Jin Zhang

Jin Zhang, also known as Sanbu, has been continuously engaged in brand strategy, design, and practice for 15 years. In 2020, he founded the Wuhan Sanbu brand design and also served as the chief designer, He is the most popular design force in central China. He also serves as Vice President of Wuhan Designer Salon, National Member of the Design Committee of the China Packaging Federation, Member of CDS Chinese Designer Salon, and Practical Mentor of Design Majors in Four Universities in China. Jin Zhang excels in creating brand and product packaging designs that combine aesthetic and commercial value by combining cultural and emotional elements to create core differences.

Award Record

With this recognition, Jin Zhang is a winner of 8 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2021 - 2022 and the 2022 - 2023 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/144964
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/144964
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!144964
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/310228
Further Information from the Laureate: https://njxyn.zcool.com.cn/

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Jinlongquan Beer Gift Box
Function: Gift Box
Category: Packaging Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
Colors: Crimson, Firebrick, Brown, Dark Slate Blue and Rebecca Purple
Images: 5
Client: InBev jinlongquan beer (Hubei) Co., Ltd

The Recognition

Laureate: Jin Zhang
Country: China
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2022 - 2023
Design ID: #144964

Design Details

Unique Properties: Jinlongquan Beer has a history of more than 40 years in China. It has been liked by people since 1977. This gift box is designed to give back consumers' love for Jinlongquan for so many years. Therefore, it uses the most popular tape recorder model in the 1980s as the creation prototype. With this image, it creates a silent classic sound to convey the brand's position in consumers' hearts, and convey the idea that beer brings unlimited fun to people.
Inspiration: The inspiration for this design comes from the starting year of the brand. The 1980s was a very interesting time. At that time, the most popular way for young people was to carry a recorder, dance and sing in bell bottoms, and be very happy. This is exactly the pleasant feeling that beer can bring to people. From the physical and spiritual aspects of the brand, it is very consistent.
Research: When doing this design, the designer started to study the brand development process and found out several important nodes of the brand development. He used the most popular recorder in the brand's initial years as the creation prototype, which not only demonstrated the long history of the brand, but also had emotional interaction with consumers. He also used the important year of the brand on the FM number of the recorder, and used this natural way to integrate the brand into the design.
Challenge: The biggest challenge of this gift box is to control the production cost, but the designer perfectly solved it through creative modeling, and the corrugated box is also very environmentally friendly. Another challenge lies in the internal fixed structure. The designer gave up the simple but not environmentally friendly foam and solved it by blocking the product through the opening of the carton, so that the whole gift box can reach the most environmentally friendly state.
Realization and Technology: Although this is a gift box, in order to avoid excessive packaging, the designer only used corrugated boxes to achieve this, which is practical and environmentally friendly and saves the brand money. At the same time, taking advantage of the modeling characteristics of the tape recorder, three circular holes were opened on the basis of not damaging the integrity, so that consumers can clearly see several different types of beer products in the gift box from the outside, achieving the dual protection of brand culture and function.
Operation and Interaction: This gift box uses the most popular recorder in the 1980s as the creation prototype, which will remind many people of their memories. In the current trend of retro, many young people also like this retro design, so it can cover a very wide range of consumers' ages. Emotional interaction is the interaction that can bring consumers the greatest memory point, and will bring better brand goodwill to the brand.
Project Duration and Location: The project will start in Wuhan, China in June 2022, be completed in Wuhan, China in July 2022, and be exhibited in Hubei, China in September 2022.
Specifications: Width 370mm x Depth 70mm x Height 310mm
Keywords: Jinlongquan Beer, Gift Box, Jin Zhang, Wuhan SANBU, Packing Design, China