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Kikumi Yoshida Is Honored with the A' Design Award for Hagata Farm Pickles Packaging in Packaging Design
Kikumi Yoshida honored 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/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category for Hagata Farm Pickles Packaging by Kikumi Yoshida, designed for Hagata Farm. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Hagata Farm Pickles Packaging
To reflect the client's personality, they used the client's hand and daikon radish seeds as motifs in the logo. The green paper on the lid represents a daikon leaf. The colors and strength of the vegetable are expressed through fine dotted patterns that evoke texture and depth. To highlight the whiteness of the daikon, they minimized the label design, allowing the vegetable to stand out. The green paper covering the lid serves as packaging and a letter of appreciation to the consumer on the reverse side, reinforcing the connection between the product and the customer experience.
About Kikumi Yoshida
Kuuché Design is a design studio that bridges local culture and creative expression. Based in Ehime, Japan, they explore ways to convey a place’s identity through branding, packaging, and visual storytelling. The studio regularly hosts workshops and engages with community projects, aiming to empower small businesses and celebrate the unique resources of rural regions. With a focus on quiet yet impactful design, Kuuché Design turns invisible values into visible form.
Award Record
With this recognition, Kikumi Yoshida is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2024 - 2025 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/164705
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/164705
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!164705
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/358674
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://x.gd/RhEwy
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Hagata Farm Pickles Packaging
- Function
- Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Light Gray, Dim Gray, Gainsboro and Tan
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Hagata Farm
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kikumi Yoshida
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #164705
Credits
- Image Credits
- #1: Designer Kikumi Yoshida, Kuuche design,Photographer Keijiro Ando, 2022. #2: Designer Kikumi Yoshida, Kuuche design,Photographer Rui Tokunaga,2022. #3: Designer Kikumi Yoshida, Kuuche design, 2022. #4: Designer Kikumi Yoshida, Kuuche design, 2022. #5: Designer Kikumi Yoshida, Kuuche design, 2022. Writer Tomomi Takada,Video production Hiroshi Minao
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- To reflect the individuality, the hand held by the client and the vegetable seed were used as the logo motif. The green paper on the lid imitates a vegetable leaf. The deep hue and the strength of the vegetable are expressed in fine dots.
- Inspiration
- The project involved making pickles using vegetables from the Hagata farm, and using the profits from the sales to cover the costs of growing vegetables for school lunches. The client wanted to deliver first class vegetables to school children while taking on the challenges of agriculture.
- Research
- Team members discussed every possible direction, including what expressions the clientele liked, what magazines they preferred, and what designs they preferred, and carefully shaped them in a layered manner.
- Challenge
- Many other companies already sell pickle products. We needed to find a way to differentiate ourselves from them and appeal to the interests of people in locally grown vegetables and the project with an appealing design.
- Realization and Technology
- We pondered how to express the personality of Hagata Farm. We realized that the hands they hold belong to proud farmers who embody dedication. We reflected these hands in the design and used dotted vegetable leaves to represent the quiet yet powerful life force in the field. This design connects the essence of the farm to the product telling a story of nature hard work and pride. By highlighting the farmers connection to the land we aimed to create a design that resonates with the values of the community and the beauty of agriculture.
- Operation and Interaction
- The green paper covering the lid also decorates the surface of the package, while the reverse side is a letter of appreciation and product concept to the consumer. By putting thought into every part of the package, we aimed to create a package that will be a keepsake, rather than a package that will be thrown away.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2022 in Niihama City, Ehime Prefecture.
- Specifications
- Width 80 mm,Depth 80 mm,Height 75 mm
- Keywords
- Package design , pickles , farmers , Japanese food
