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China Resources Snow Breweries Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for West Lake Beer Packaging in Packaging Design
China Resources Snow Breweries acknowledged for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ West Lake Beer Packaging by China Resources Snow Breweries has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 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 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.
Regarding West Lake Beer Packaging
West Lake Beer is a packaging design for bottled beer. The design draws on the scenery of West Lake in Hangzhou, interpreting the Broken Bridge and Three Ponds Mirroring the Moon as abstract visual symbols. The typography combines seal script with the calligraphy style of the Song Dynasty. The outer box is finished with gold stamping and a matte film for a smooth tactile quality. The bottle is made of high quality green glass, which limits ultraviolet light and helps preserve the flavour of the beer. Stone towers shown on the bottle indicate the intensity of each flavour.
About China Resources Snow Breweries
Founded in 1993, China Resources Snow Breweries (China) Co., Ltd (CR Snow Breweries) is a nationwide professional beer company that brews and sells beer. Headquartered in Beijing, China, the company has a high-end brand matrix of "Chinese local brands + international brands ". From 2006 to 2014, the total sales volume of CR Snow Beer ranked the leading position in China's beer market for nine consecutive years. In 2013, the sales volume of Snow Beer single brand reached 10.62 million liters. In 2013, the total sales volume of China Resources Snow Beer reached 11.72 million liters. Become the first "double 10 million tons" enterprise in China's beer industry.
Award Record
With this recognition, China Resources Snow Breweries is a winner of 9 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2021 - 2022 and the 2024 - 2025 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/163374
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/163374
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!163374
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/327890
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.snowbeer.com.cn
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- West Lake Beer Packaging
- Function
- Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- White, Dark Green, Light Gray, Gainsboro and Dark Olive Green
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- China Resources Snow Breweries
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #163374
Credits
- Team
- Qiguang Li, Celine Zhou, Xiaowei He
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The packaging design of West Lake Beer incorporates cultural symbols and aesthetic features of West Lake, artistically interpreting elements such as Broken Bridge and Three Ponds Mirroring the Moon. It further blends typography and font design of Chinese aesthetics to create a packaging image that exudes classical flavour while maintaining a modern feeling. This design allows consumers not only to savour the beer but also to experience the charm of West Lake and its cultural significance.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the renowned natural and cultural landscape, West Lake in Hangzhou, the design elevates the cultural added value of the beer through the utilization of colors, patterns, and materials. The design team selected the West Lake sceneries, the Broken Bridge and Three Ponds Mirroring the Moon, and interpreted them into visual symbols abstractly and artistically. They were blended into every facet of the packaging, making it a medium for expressing the cultural connotation of West Lake.
- Research
- Through extensive research and excavation of West Lake culture, the design team has effectively translated the natural beauty and humanistic landscape of West Lake into visual elements incorporated into the beer packaging design. This process not only elevates the cultural and artistic value of the product but also serves as a valuable reference for the modernization and evolution of traditional beer brands.
- Challenge
- The challenge is capturing the cultural essence of West Lake. The West Lake Beer font mimics the graceful arch of the Broken Bridge, and some strokes resemble the soaring eaves of the mid lake pavilion, integrating West Lake aesthetics and seal script. The label is inspired by Song Dynasty calligraphy, from right to left, with a negative silhouette of Three Ponds Mirroring the Moon. Consumers can feel the profound Chinese aesthetics and the ethereal beauty of West Lake while enjoying the beer.
- Realization and Technology
- The exterior box is crafted with a gold stamping process, enhancing its visual appeal and offering consumers a unique tactile experience. The bottle is constructed from high quality green glass, providing excellent optical protection that minimizes the potential for UV light to interact with beer compounds and cause odors or oxidation, preserving the freshness and flavor profile of the beer.
- Operation and Interaction
- The Three Ponds Mirroring the Moon stone towers are designed to represent the varying intensities of the beer flavors on the bottle. This visual arrangement enhances the sensory exploration of taste and promotes social interaction among consumers during the savoring. The outer box is made of matte film with great texture, which offers a delicate tactile experience with jade like warmness and smoothness, further reflecting the cultural richness and high quality of the West Lake Beer brand.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was designed and developed in December 2022 in Beijing.
- Specifications
- product dimensions, 64.5 mm x 64.5 mm x 250 mm
- Keywords
- Beer packaging, West Lake iconic elements, Seal script font, Song Dynasty calligraphy typography, Eastern aesthetics
