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Hai Zhu Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Jiangshiguo State Liquor Packaging in Packaging Design
Hai Zhu recognized for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Jiangshiguo State Liquor Packaging by Hai Zhu has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2022 - 2023 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.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Jiangshiguo State Liquor Packaging
Jiangshiguo State Liquor is a packaging design for a limited collection of jiang-flavor Chinese liquor. The bottle carries a raised relief of mountain trend lines and golden dots, which symbolize the lands and rivers of China. The surface color shifts from light blue to ink blue, suggesting a blue sky and green mountains. Auspicious clouds and a Loong figure are illustrated on the two sides. The cap is made of solid wood and metal, showing wood grain and gilding. The relief follows ergonomics, so the bottle is easy to hold. The package is opened by pulling.
About Hai Zhu
Zhu Hai devotes himself to creating “Chinese cultural brand” and forging “city name card”. He helps clients seek for brand cultural values, create the drive force of products, and expand the market of products. He insists on digging and shaping cultural resources, attempt to promote enterprise brand values and utilize cultural significance and visual techniques to create more Chinese brands which represent the unique charm of Chinese culture.
Award Record
Hai Zhu is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2021 - 2022 and the 2022 - 2023 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/142537
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/142537
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!142537
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/317420
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Jiangshiguo State Liquor Packaging
- Function
- Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Light Blue, Sky Blue, Tan, Dark Salmon and Silver
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Hai Zhu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #142537
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Jiangshiguo State Liquor is a limited collection jiang-flavor liquor. Sticking to the concept of simplicity, the product package symbolizes China's prosperous lands and rivers through the vivid relievo. The spirit of ingenuity of Chinese liquor-makers has also been integrated into the design, presenting a unique and classic flavor of Chinese liquor.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the Chinese ingenuity, Jiangshiguo State Liquor introduces its embodied ongoing exploration, persistence, refinement, sharing and inheritance of Chinese ingenuity to consumers through its simple and exquisite package. This leads to an understanding of Chinese liquor culture to boost Chinese culture confidence.
- Research
- As China state liquor, the liquor culture represented by Baijiu one of Chinese liquor has been spread for thousands of years thanks the inheritance and persistence of Chinese liquor-maker. Tasting the liquor can lead users to associate it with the state liquor and the liquor culture embodied can raise social awareness of traditional Chinese culture, leading to the inheritance and spread of Chinese liquor culture.
- Challenge
- Unlike other liquor packages in the market, this product is a pioneer to utilize convex trend lines of mountains and golden dots as the major elements. This not only symbolizes the prosperous lands and rivers vividly but also expresses a lingering flavor of the liquor. And the gradual color on the product package changes from light blue to ink blue presents a view of the blue sky and lush mountains, and intuitively conveys the increasingly stronger flavor over time.
- Realization and Technology
- The bottle cap is made of solid wood and metal with the richer texture of wood grain and gilding. The surface is outlined with golden lines and core elements, including the trend lines of mountains and golden dots, which echoes the bottle design. The two sides are illustrated with auspicious clouds and Loong, which are the most representative Chinese patterns. The Loong stands for the noble Chinese emperors and a prosperous country to convey the classic flavor of State Liquor directly.
- Operation and Interaction
- The relievo of mountain trend lines on the bottle follows ergonomics, which not only makes it a high-end gift but also fit hands for easier grip that is not prone to slip. Its package can be pulled and opened, which can give consumers a stronger sense of ritual when opening compared with common cap-opening liquor bottles.
- Project Duration and Location
- Jiangshiguo State Liquor was developed in May 2021 in Chengdu, China, and was launched in Guizhou in May 2022.
- Specifications
- product dimensions, 120mm x 120 mm x 280 mm
- Keywords
- Jiang-flavor package, state liquor, the spirit of ingenuity, the inheritance of liquor-making techniques, Chinese liquor culture
