Love Hanshui Ka Pūʻolo Wai Inu by Yanhui Zhang

Love Hanshui Ka Pūʻolo Wai Inu by Yanhui Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā ʻUhi Competition Category.

KalaʻUhi· 2024

Love Hanshui Ka Pūʻolo Wai Inu

by Yanhui Zhang

Client: Wuhan Pufine Creative Technology Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award Kala Winner in ʻUhi Category

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The Design

About Love Hanshui Ka Pūʻolo Wai Inu

He pūʻolo hoʻomanaʻo ʻo Love Hanshui no ka wai inu maʻemaʻe, i hana ʻia e hōʻailona i ke koho ʻia ʻana o Wuhan ma ke ʻano he Kūlanakauhale ʻĀina Pulu Honua. ʻEhā mau holoholona ʻōiwi, ʻo ia hoʻi ka naiʻa lā kua ʻole, ka koloa poʻo polū, ke setoreka ʻeleʻele a me ka ʻeleka, e hōʻike ana i nā kau ʻehā o ka makahiki. Hoʻohui ka pena ʻīnika Pākē kuʻuna i nā holoholona me nā hiʻohiʻona ʻāina pulu kūloko. Hana ʻia ka lepili ʻōmole keʻokeʻo me kahi hana hoʻemi wela a me ka paʻi waihoʻoluʻu kikoʻī. He 60 milimika ka laulā a he 220 milimika ke kiʻekiʻe o kēlā me kēia ʻōmole. Wehe kekahi pāʻālua ma ka lepili i kahi ʻike pākolu-anahulu.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Love Hanshui Ka Pūʻolo Wai Inu i ka A' Design Award Kala, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kiʻekiʻe loa, nani a kupaianaha. He mau hana ʻālohilohi loa a hana noʻeau nui nā lanakila Kala e hōʻike ana i ka loea, ka makakoho a me ka ʻoi aku o ka noʻonoʻo o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Love Hanshui Ka Pūʻolo Wai Inu he hana kupaianaha, kūlana ʻoi aku, ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Kala he mea hoʻokumu kūpono loa, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. He mea i ʻeleu ʻia e nā mea he nui ka hoʻolālā Love Hanshui Ka Pūʻolo Wai Inu e hoʻāla i ka makemake, lawe mai i nā manaʻo maikaʻi a hoʻāla i ka kamahaʻo a me ka mahalo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This is a commemorative series of purified drinking water commemorating Wuhan's selection as the "Wetland City". Its unusual creativity lies in combining the images of four native animals with the local wetlands and landscapes by traditional Chinese ink painting in a abstract and concrete way, reflecting the themes of cultural inheritance and ecological protection.
Dimensions & Packaging: Bottle diameter 60mm, height 220mm
Tags: bottle label
Production Technology: The white bottle label adopts a heat shrink label process of spot color printing. While the Chinese traditional painting helps to show the four local animals, the finless porpoise, the blue headed duck, the black stork and the elk, which are selected to represent the four seasons of the year, in the abstract and concrete expression and depicts a vivid scene of the wetland scenery, highlighting the theme of harmonious coexistence, environmental protection, and inheritance of Chinese culture and art.
Design Challenge: It is a veryarduouschallenge for designers that the ingenious integration of animal figures and landscape image withoutvisibleefforts, then expressed by the traditional Chinese ink painting, which needs to study a large number of ancient works and take repeated modifications to present the picture that conform to the creative design.
Research: As a packaging for purified water that reflects Wuhan, a city of wetland and the theme of environmental protection, the elements that are consistent with the theme must be found out from the ecology items which are well recognized by the locals, and the more profound cultural connotations of Chinese culture and art should be explored too.
Inspiration: Wuhan was selected as an "International Wetland City" in the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands which held in this city in 2022. Inspired by it, four rare native animals, including the finless porpoise, the blue headed duck, the black stork and the elk are selected to represent the four seasons of the year in this city. The traditional Chinese painting is applied to ingeniously integrate the images of them with the pictures of local wetland scenery and tourist attractions.
Project Duration: The project started in Wuhan in February 2023 and was completed in Wuhan in April 2023.
Operation Flow: The wetland scenery and animals familiar to locals is combined in Chinese ink painting, which makes it easy to resonate with people and get topicdiffusion as the novel combination is highly attractive. It is also unique and eye-catching when displayed as a series of products. The AI technology would help people to view the three-dimensional and dynamic perspective picture when they scan the QR code on the label, their deep attention would rise in the innovative and interesting interactions.
Team Members: Creative Director: Zhang Yanhui
Creative Director: Xia Ling
Process Director: Zhou Xiaoli, Zhang YuXuan
Designer: Xu Yanliang