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Sunboy Gift Box Sunflower Seeds Packaging by Tiger Pan Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Packaging Design

Tiger Pan of Tigerpan Design Lab. acknowledged for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Sunboy Gift Box Sunflower Seeds Packaging by Tiger Pan of Tigerpan Design Lab., designed for Bayannaoer Sanpangdan Food Co., Ltd, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

About the Bronze A' Design Award

The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

About Sunboy Gift Box Sunflower Seeds Packaging

Sunboy Gift Box is a packaging design for sunflower seed snacks. The gift box holds cylindrical iron tins that can be reused. The outer box is made of corrugated paper, which strengthens the structure and makes recycling easier. The opening structure is redefined, so the box is simple to assemble and to separate. The tins buckle together to form modular sets of one, two or three layers, which enlarges the exposed product area and saves material. The printed scene uses a paper cut style and shows the Sunboy character running in a sunflower field.

About Tiger Pan

Tiger Pan, renowned designer and founder of Tiger Pan Design Lab, currently serves as the Jury President for D&AD 2024 in Packaging Design. He is also a contracted artist for the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA), a collaborative artist with the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), a partner artist with the Liechtenstein Postal Service, and a co-branded artist with BVLGARI. Additionally, he holds the role of Vice Chairman of the Shenzhen Illustration Association and serves as a guest professor at 18 prestigious design academies across China. Over the past 28 years, Tiger Pan has been deeply engaged in product and packaging design research and practice.

Award Record

This recognition makes Tiger Pan of Tigerpan Design Lab. a winner of 32 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2017 - 2018 and the 2021 - 2022 editions 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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to packaging designers, graphic designers, branding agencies and product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include bottles, boxes, cans, pouches, tubes and cartons. The awarded packaging designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/packaging

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Sunboy Gift Box Sunflower Seeds Packaging
Function
Sunflower Seeds Packaging
Category
Packaging Design
Discipline
Communication Design
Industry
Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
Colors
Lavender, Firebrick, Indian Red, Pale Violet Red and Crimson
Images
5
Client
Bayannaoer Sanpangdan Food Co., Ltd

The Recognition

Laureate
Tiger Pan
Country
China
Brand
Tigerpan Design Lab.
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2021 - 2022
Design ID
#130899

Credits

Team
Qian Chi, Jingwen Xiang, Ping Yi, Yuling Zhu, Zhangkun Xie and Lei Peng
Image Credits
Image #No 1: Photographer Yuling Zhu Image #No 2: Photographer Yuling Zhu Image #No 3: Photographer Yuling Zhu Image #No 4: Photographer Yuling Zhu Image #No 5: Photographer Yuling Zhu

Design Details

Unique Properties
The unique attribute is to redefine the opening structure of the outer packaging of sunflower seeds. Starting from the brand name, a vivid, interesting, and well-known logo is created. The packaging picture uses a paper-cut style to depict the "Sunboy" running happily in the sunflower field. The scene shows the natural health, warmth, and high quality of brand products, and the shaping of character IP enhances the brand's intangible assets.
Inspiration
Sunboy is a well-known Chinese snack brand that focuses on Sunflower seed food. We give the "Sunboy" brand a personalized spirit, and make the "Sunboy" relaxed, happy, affectionate, and righteous; the functional application of the gift box is innovative, and the overall design is simple to assemble and separate, saving time and effort. By buckling each other, one-layer, two-layer or three-layer modular assembly can be formed. The product has a large exposed area and saves material costs.
Research
We give the "Sunboy" brand a personalized spirit, and make the " Sunboy " relaxed, happy, affectionate and righteous; the functional application of the gift box is innovative, and the overall design is simple to assemble and separate, saving time and effort. Starting from the brand name, a vivid, interesting and well-known logo is created. The packaging picture uses a paper-cut style to depict the "Sunboy" running happily in the sunflower field.
Challenge
To make a profound impression in consumers' mind, a brand's implication and its product's selling points must echo with on another when displayed on package. By buckling each other, one-layer, two-layer or three-layer modular assembly can be formed. The product has a large exposed area and saves material costs.
Realization and Technology
The material of each cylinder box mainly uses an iron that can be reused. The gift box is made of corrugated paper which strengthens the structure and makes it easier to be recycled.
Operation and Interaction
How to save consumer's effort to look for an ideal product is the key challenge of this case. A distinctive symbol, a bright color, an explicit layout of info and a unitive serial system of package will help Wellmind to solve the problem, where consumers are able to recognize and pick up the products from far away.
Project Duration and Location
The project lasts 2 month, designed in Shenzhen and produced in Bayannaoer, Neimenggu.
Specifications
Iron box: Width165mm x Depth165mm x Height66mm Gift box: Width159mm x Depth451mm x Height200mm
Keywords
Seed packaging, snack food, Gift box, Personalized, Relaxed, Tiger Pan

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