Yihe Dim Sum Desain Kemasan by Ye Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award Perunggu in Desain Kemasan Competition Category.

PerungguKemasan· 2024

Yihe Dim Sum Desain Kemasan

by Ye Zhang

Client: Beijing Jiaotong University

A' Design Award Perunggu Winner in Kemasan Category

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The Design

About Yihe Dim Sum Desain Kemasan

Yihe Dim Sum adalah desain kemasan untuk merek kue pastri khas Beijing yang dijual di Istana Musim Panas. Kotak luarnya berukuran 230 kali 230 kali 60 milimeter dan memuat empat kotak yang lebih kecil berukuran 110 kali 110 kali 45 milimeter. Empat situs terkenal di Istana Musim Panas diilustrasikan untuk mewakili empat varian rasa pastri. Ilustrasinya memadukan arsitektur tradisional Tiongkok dengan gaya pop art serta elemen kolase yang diambil dari lukisan-lukisan tradisional. Kotak ini menggunakan cetak UV, lapisan antara berbahan kertas, teks samping berhias foil emas, dan tepian die-cut untuk ketahanan.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perunggu

Yihe Dim Sum Desain Kemasan adalah pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu, pengakuan yang sangat bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain luar biasa yang dicirikan oleh kreativitas, kecerdikan, dan ketajaman. Pemenang Perunggu adalah artefak yang sangat terampil dan sangat kreatif yang membuktikan pengalaman luas, imajinasi, dan kelihaian para desainernya. Yihe Dim Sum Desain Kemasan diharapkan menjadi objek yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi, dan dicintai, sangat profesional dan inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Perunggu ini menyertakan praktik terbaik dalam seni, sains, desain, dan teknologi, dan sangat baik dalam perhatiannya pada detail. Yihe Dim Sum Desain Kemasan memuaskan kebutuhan dengan indah, menyentuh keinginan, memikat perasaan, dan menarik rasa ingin tahu.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: To showcase the essence of the Summer Palace, four of its most iconic sites have been selected to represent the four flavors of the packaging. The illustrations seamlessly blend traditional Chinese architecture with a pop art style, incorporating elements from traditional paintings in collage form. This approach creates a visually impactful impression, setting a new paradigm and trend in traditional Chinese pastry packaging that resonates aesthetically with the younger generation.
Dimensions & Packaging: Outer packaging: 230mm× 230mm× 60mm
Inner packaging: 110mm× 110mm× 45mm
Tags: The Summer Palace, pop style, new Chinese style, oriental aesthetics, traditional renewal, packaging design, brand design.
Production Technology: The outer packaging box of "The Summer Palace Pastry " adopts UV technology and contains four small boxes. The box uses a special paper interlayer and a sulfuric acid paper compartment, the side text adopts the bronzing printing process, and the edge adopts the die-cutting process to ensure the hardness, durability and aesthetics of the box.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge in the creative process is how to combine traditional architecture with pastry packaging in a modern style, how to increase the connection between traditional court pastries and young consumers, and at the same time enhance their attention and love for Traditional Chinese architectural culture.
Research: Type: Packaging design
Goal: To design a pastry gift box with the traditional cultural characteristics and modern design style of the Summer Palace
Methods: Fieldwork, questionnaire survey, brand research, hand-drawing, design software Ps, Ai were used to create.
Result: The famous buildings of the Summer Palace and the elements in Chinese paintings were combined to create illustrations with national tide style and pop style, which were used as the main visual of pastry packaging, presenting a design with new Chinese and oriental aesthetics.
Results/Impact: At present, this series of products have been listed in the Summer Palace Scenic Area in Beijing, which has received extensive social attention and good social evaluation, injected new cultural innovation vitality into the Summer Palace Scenic Area, and provided new ideas, new paradigms and new trends for traditional Chinese pastry packaging.
Inspiration: The Summer Palace has embraced the recent cultural trend of creative cuisine by introducing its Beijing-style pastry brand - YIHE DIM SUM. The brand aims to elevate the products' value and promote them through thoughtful design.
Anticipating 20 million visitors in 2024, the Summer Palace envisions YIHE DIM SUM as a medium through which consumers can not only savor the elegance of the palace pastries but also visually and spiritually connect with the rich cultural heritage they represent.
Project Duration: The project started in Beijing in March 2023, completed in Beijing in December 2023, and was listed in the Summer Palace Scenic Area in Beijing in January 2024.
Operation Flow: The product is sold simultaneously in the Summer Palace's offline gift shop and official website, and visitors can also buy it in the park when they visit the Summer Palace, and can be used as a souvenir for their own consumption and gifts for relatives and friends.
Patents: This work is all original images not copyrighted.
Team Members: Design Director:YeZhang
Art Director:YangMao
Art Director:XingxingLi
Lead Designer:XiaoyiWang
Designer:XiaoyuanQin
Designer:YuzhengLei
Designer:YeLin
Designer:LeSun
Designer:XiaoYuZhou
Image Credits: This work is all original images not copyrighted.