Ouro Envases · 2023
The Donn O Whisky Irlandés De Malta
by Tiago Russo and Katia Martins
- A' Design Award de Ouro 2023 in Envases
- CLIENT: The Craft Irish Whiskey Co.
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 46,496
- Verification code DB7A0FA4F3 · Verify this award
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About The Donn O Whisky Irlandés De Malta
O Donn simboliza o máis novo da gama The Craft Irish Whisky Co.; unha porta de entrada aos valores fundamentais da marca como dunha experiencia inmersiva arredor deste ou calquera produto que desenvolva CIWC. Non se escatiman accesorios, nin detalles demasiado pequenos. Desde un deseño de botella disruptivo e de declaración ata unha caixa transparente inmersiva, o usuario pode atopar cada compoñente que realmente poida proporcionar a experiencia de whisky perfecta para un. O vidro, a pipeta e as pedras, todos suxeitos de forma segura ao respaldo de ante da caixa, crean unha exhibición segura de accesorios, complementada co suave tacto dos detalles de coiro.
About the A' Design Award de Ouro
The Donn O Whisky Irlandés De Malta gañou o A' Design Award de Ouro, un recoñecemento inmensamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de primeira clase, marabillosos e sobresaíntes. Os gañadores Ouro son creacións sumamente innovadoras, visionarias e glamurosamente deslumbrantes que reflicten o xenio, a sabedoría e a destreza dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que The Donn O Whisky Irlandés De Malta sexa unha invención moi eloxiada, pioneira e monumental que ofrece un valor sen precedentes. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Ouro é un proxecto espectacular e respectado que beneficia moito a arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía e fai avanzar os seus límites. The Donn O Whisky Irlandés De Malta crea intensos sentimentos de desexo, esperta a paixón, anima a creatividade e fascina.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- A mythological creation that sees its storytelling translated and reinterpreted through an impactful design, The Donn represents the first ever retail tailored product from The Craft Irish Whiskey Co., and therefore, focuses on the bottle and on how a single vessel can tell its own story whilst captivating the world around it. Subsequently, its experience box comes to elevate and highlight the vessel shaping, by adopting a see-through section with a similar angled geometry.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The vessel’s divergent shape and enlarged shoulder acts like a freestanding monument, whilst allowing a recessed gap for the user to grab the bottle with ease, in the exact balancing spot that will allow a soft and smooth pour, all designed and enclosed within the perfect combination of aesthetics, mythology, ergonomics and sensorial experience. Subsequently, the experience box comes into play to add to the full experience, in a singular moment of introspection and appreciation.
- Tags
- Whiskey, luxury, design, craftsmanship, experience, immersion, packaging, product, exclusive, bottle
- Production Technology
- With its faceted, angular shaping, The Donn bottle was envisioned with a large, solid base, elevating the whiskey and its shades onto the narrowest part of the bottle. From there, the planar surfaces reflect the whiskey colours in every direction, in a vessel that must be visible from all angles, with one’s attention grabbed and enchanted onto it, as the glass elevates, widens and creates the inverted lip at the very top of its shoulders, creating the basis for a vertical elevated posture.
- Design Challenge
- Apart from the extensive search for disruptive, eye-catching elements that could generate the differentiating point for The Donn, the core of the development process relied on creating a product that, whilst encompassing difference and irreverence, could still stay true to the brand’s ultra-premium look and feel, that could be considered a worthy successor of previous years’ releases, elevating whiskey and brand as one. Desire, disruption, tradition, all merged together in a single design.
- Research
- As a product that is tailored to a broader range of users and buyers than the rest of the brand’s range, the research stage was focused on the retail whiskey market, in order to understand what could be a shape and appealing design for this product to stand out from the shelves, in such a competitive market. It was a search for differentiating assets, for disruptiveness that could elevate and highlight The Donn beyond its direct competitors, through design and mythology.
- Inspiration
- In Irish mythology, Donn is associated to the god of the dead. Derived from the Celtic word for Dark Lord, Donn is said to dwell under the rock tunnel at Tech Duinn, where the souls of the dead gather to be chosen by the Donn. With Tech Duinn associated with the formation of Bull Rock in Ireland, The Donn bottle is inspired by the geometric rock formations on the side of this island, where an inverted elevating geometry was adopted, as to represent the conquering of Tech Duinn and The Donn.
- Project Duration
- Introduced by The Craft Irish Whiskey Co. early 2023, The Donn represents the youngest addition to the luxury whiskey range, with its bottle developed for almost two years, in order to achieve the ultimate vessel, with the rock-formed geometry appearing in the glass smoothly and ensuring the liquid inside stays visible and truly benefits from all the angles and reflections promoted by the extremely angular asymmetrical bottle, topped by obsidian and rose gold knurl detailing on the closure.
- Operation Flow
- The Donn packaging is a sensorial experience embedded onto the dark oak, leather, rose gold details, and most importantly, a moment of tasting and celebration, alongside the intricate vessel. Concise angles are used as the main focus point, drawing the attention towards the bottle, where the faceted shaping, iconic of this vessel, has inspired a similar angular and transparent window, teasing the viewer onto the natural shades of the Whiskey whilst bursting all the light refractions through.
- Image Credits
- The Craft Irish Whiskey Co.
