Chilled Milk El Cartón by Kazuo Fukushima and Haruka Takeuchi

Chilled Milk El Cartón by Kazuo Fukushima and Haruka Takeuchi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Hierro in Diseño de Envases Competition Category.

HierroEnvases· 2023

Chilled Milk El Cartón

by Kazuo Fukushima and Haruka Takeuchi

Client: Meiji China Investment Co.,Ltd.

A' Design Award de Hierro Winner in Envases Category

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The Design

About Chilled Milk El Cartón

Sólo las vacas criadas en un buen ambiente pueden proporcionar una leche fresca y sabrosa. Y las vacas tienen libre acceso a raciones mixtas que contienen nutrientes bien equilibrados. La inspiración son las vacas de alta calidad de este producto. La alta calidad se expresa en la impresión en color dorado y las ilustraciones dibujadas a mano expresan el sabor de la naturaleza. Además, la hierba en la boca de la vaca expresa el buen ambiente reproductivo. La marca de la vaca dorada es un símbolo de este producto. Y es adecuado para el mercado chino.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Hierro

Chilled Milk El Cartón ha ganado el A' Design Award de Hierro, un reconocimiento prestigioso concedido a buenos diseños que cumplen los requisitos profesionales e industriales que se esperan de creaciones bien diseñadas. Los ganadores de Hierro demuestran gran habilidad, alta especialización, comprensión experta y capacidad creativa de sus creadores. Se espera que Chilled Milk El Cartón sea una creación muy apreciada, admirada y querida, práctica e innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Hierro integra las mejores prácticas del sector y tiene características técnicas competentes unidas a conocimiento práctico y talento. Chilled Milk El Cartón es respetado por su minuciosidad y está concebido para aportar mejoras en la calidad de vida que ayudan a hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Meiji Investment select the world high level farm and raw milk strictly. Dairy cows are comfortably raised in free range cowsheds. In order to prevent the cows from summer heat, heatstroke prevention measures such as electric fans are implemented. Cows are free to access to mixed rations contain well balanced nutrients. So, they can provide reliable, safe and high quality fresh milk. This is a project to express these carefully raised dairy cows in the design. And it is suitable for the Chinese market situation.
Dimensions & Packaging: 950ml: Width 70mm x Depth 70mm x Height 232mm
450ml: Width 70mm x Depth 70mm x Height 140mm
200ml: Width 70mm x Depth 70mm x Height 87mm
Carton material: recyclable paper
Cap material: recyclable plastic
Tags: China, Chilled Milk, Logo, Japan, Cow, Low fat, Fat free, Milk crown
Production Technology: Method of pouring milk to the cap type. It has been improved to be fresher, cleaner and easier to pour.
Under the management of quality strictly, equipment cleaning and machine sterilization has been improved in each step, completely prevented secondary pollution. The expiry date on shelf could be extended due to the ESL (Extended Shelf Life) during the manufacturing process.
Design Challenge: The creative challenge is that consumers could intuitively understand as fresh milk. And designed for a tasty and high quality. Iconized milk crown to express good taste. An original logo is created to express high grade. In addition, three types of taste are classified in three colors for easy understanding. This is a design format that can correspond to 3 sizes and 3 tastes.
Research: Analysis of luxury supermarkets where products are sold.
Competitive analysis in internet sales.
Analysis of consumer in the market.
Packaging design analysis of the Japanese market.
Inspiration: Inspired by the high quality cows. Tasty fresh milk can only be provided by cows raised in good breeding environment, so this design focused on that cows. The high quality is expressed in gold color printing, and the hand drawn illustrations express the tasty of nature. In addition, the grass in the mouth of the cow expresses the good breeding environment. The gold cow mark is placed in the center of the carton, making it stand out on the sales floor. This mark is a symbol of this product.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2022 in Shanghai and finished in August 2022, and sales started in China in October 2023.
Operation Flow: First, analyze the market and understand the current situation
Next, perform target analysis to verify what kind of design consumers want.
Third, brand analysis, analyze how it has advantages over competing products.
Fourth, develop creative ideas.
Fifth, Start the design. Make it an original design.
Sixth, sample check, color check, etc.
Finally, check the finished product.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Meiji China Investment Co.,Ltd. 2022.
Team Members: Creative Director: Kazuo Fukushima
Graphic Designer: Haruka Takeuchi
Illustrator: Mai Senoo
Account Director: Xu Xuehua
Image Credits: Photographer: Zhu Jie