Press Release
A' Design Award in Packaging Design Goes to Golden Cat Beer by Jin Zhang
Jin Zhang 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/ Golden Cat Beer by Jin Zhang, designed for InBev jinlongquan beer (Hubei) Co., Ltd, has been granted the 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Golden Cat Beer
This is a beer for night consumption. The designer has selected the cat that consumers like very much as the main image to design, so that the beer can quickly establish emotional connection with consumers while increasing the intimacy. At the same time, the cat that likes night activities is very consistent with the consumption time (night consumption) positioning of this wine. Finally, the designer also used classic European patterns for decoration, making the whole beer label full of delicacy.
About Jin Zhang
Jin Zhang, also known as Sanbu, has been continuously engaged in brand strategy, design, and practice for 15 years. In 2020, he founded the Wuhan Sanbu brand design and also served as the chief designer, He is the most popular design force in central China. He also serves as Vice President of Wuhan Designer Salon, National Member of the Design Committee of the China Packaging Federation, Member of CDS Chinese Designer Salon, and Practical Mentor of Design Majors in Four Universities in China. Jin Zhang excels in creating brand and product packaging designs that combine aesthetic and commercial value by combining cultural and emotional elements to create core differences.
Award Record
With this recognition, Jin Zhang is a winner of 9 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2021 - 2022 to 2022 - 2023 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to packaging designers, graphic designers, branding agencies and product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include bottles, boxes, cans, pouches, tubes and cartons. Awarded packaging designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/packaging
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/146768
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/146768
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!146768
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/310228
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://njxyn.zcool.com.cn/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Golden Cat Beer
- Function
- Beer
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Orange, Gold, Steel Blue, Khaki and Dark Slate Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- InBev jinlongquan beer (Hubei) Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jin Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #146768
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is a beer for night consumption. The designer uses the image of "cat" as the main body for packaging design, which not only conforms to the time orientation of night onsumption, but also brings a sense of intimacy to people, enabling this product to quickly establish a connection with consumers. At the same time, classical European patterns are used for decoration, making the overall design more refined.
- Inspiration
- This beer is exclusively for night drinking. The most active time of "cat" is in the evening, which is very consistent with the consumption scene time of the product; At the same time, more and more people keep cats, and take "cats" as emotional sustenance partners. "cats" can make people feel cordial. Thinking from the above two aspects, the designer used the image of "cat" as the main image to design.
- Research
- The competition in the beer market is very fierce. Simply emphasizing the beer quality is not enough to impress consumers. At this time, designers need to think more from the emotional level. How to make consumers feel friendly and quickly establish emotional connection with consumers is the most important. Therefore, based on this product consumed at night, The designer selected the "cat" that is kind and active at night as the main image for creation.
- Challenge
- The challenge of this beer packaging design is to balance the size relationship between the main image of "cat" and the product name and brand name, so that people can not only look friendly at a glance, but also clearly see the brand and product name. At the same time, "cat" also needs to have a lot of details, and the entire label needs to have a sense of quality, which is presented on the label which is not too large.
- Realization and Technology
- Glass bottle sticker
- Operation and Interaction
- Nowadays, people's living standards are increasing, but they are becoming more and more lonely. More and more people start to keep cats and take "cats" as their emotional sustenance partners. This beer uses "cats" as its main image to create, which can quickly establish emotional connection with people and make products quickly enter people's hearts.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project will be started in Wuhan, China in October 2022, completed in Wuhan, China in December 2022, and sold in Hubei, China in January 2023.
- Specifications
- Width 58mm x Depth 58mm x Height 188mm
- Keywords
- Jinlongquan Beer , Golden Cat Beer, Wuhan Sanbu Brand Design, Beer Packaging Design, Zhang Jin
