Lei Xue Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Dou Xiaojiu Package Design in Packaging Design

Lei Xue acknowledged for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 24, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ Dou Xiaojiu Package Design by Lei Xue, designed for Beijing Forestry University, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 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 Bronze A' Design Award Means

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.

Regarding Dou Xiaojiu Package Design

Dou Xiaojiu's Story is a small bottle liquor brand developed for white-collar workers in China's first tier cities. As a cultural and creative liquor brand, it features the concept of cartoon and blind box, which tells the story of white collar workers through cartoons on the bottle body, resonating with consumers. Dou Xiaojiu has overturned people's perceptions of liquor in terms of taste, design and copywriting, bringing consumers a pleasant surprise.

About Lei Xue

Senior Lecturer at the School of Art and Design, Beijing Forestry University, Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University. Her research interests include intelligent innovative design, sustainable system design, green brand product design, future design educational research, etc. She undertook and participated in several design research projects, including the National Key R&D Program of China, “Technology Integration and Application Demonstration of Chinese Style Creative Intelligent Product Design” and Product Design of Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Train CRH380. She has published over 20 high-level papers. Her product design has won several patents and honors.

Award Record

With this recognition, Lei Xue is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

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/159368
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/159368
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!159368
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/353723

Media Contact

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Dou Xiaojiu Package Design
Function: Package Design
Category: Packaging Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
Colors: Gainsboro, Silver, Dark Gray, Light Slate Gray and Light Gray
Images: 5
Client: Beijing Forestry University

The Recognition

Laureate: Lei Xue
Country: China
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2023 - 2024
Design ID: #159368

Credits

Team: LeiXue, XingxingLi, YangMao and YiLi
Image Credits: This work is all original images not copyrighted.

Design Details

Unique Properties: " Dou Xiaojiu 's Story" is a small-bottle liquor brand developed for white-collar workers in China's first-tier cities. As a cultural and creative liquor brand, it features the concept of "cartoon + blind box", which tells the story of white-collar workers through cartoons on the bottle body, resonating with consumers. " Dou Xiaojiu " has overturned people's perceptions of liquor in terms of taste, design and copywriting, bringing consumers a pleasant surprise.
Inspiration: According to research, the main consumer group of small bottles of liquor is young people in first-tier cities. In the era of Internet marketing, these people like individualization and uniqueness. We need to establish an emotional connection with them through a "storytelling" design. The packaging should meet the requirements of both offline restaurant sales and online retail.
Research: Type: Brand Design Research Goal: Design a best-selling liquor brand online for China's new generation of young people. Methods: The questionnaire interview, big data analysis, target group research, brand planning analysis are used in this project, and Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, C4D software are also used to create and design “Dou Xiao Jiu” brand. Meanwhile, the variety of commodity packaging printing processes for batch production are used comprehensively. Results: The brand and packaging design characteristics of “Dou Xiao Jiu” are identified as miniaturization, IP comic image, modularity and green environmentally.
Challenge: Creativity: “Dou Xiao Jiu” brand has double meanings. The Chinese character “Dou” literally means “soybean” in English, which represents grain, and it is metaphor for Baijiu brewed from grain. Another meaning is that it's the same sound with Chinese character “Funny”, representing “interesting, happy, and joyful”. The literal translation of “Xiao Jiu” is the number 9. In Chinese culture, it represents the meaning of “ Long and long happiness”. Another meaning is homonymous with the Chinese word “liquor”, which means that the product type is Small-scale Baijiu.
Realization and Technology: The “Dou Xiao Jiu” Baijiu bottle is a high-quality transparent glass bottle with the cap of silver-plating process. The packaging has two types, one type is sold individually, the other is gift box containing 6 bottles, made of white cardboard, mainly in the form of blind boxes. In addition, its transport package is equipped with kraft paper, a total of 4 gift boxes per transport package, for protecting the transportation process. This Baijiu (Chinese liquor) comes from China’s famous company of Fen-flavor Liquor. The alcohol content is 40%, which is more acceptable for young people.
Operation and Interaction: The product is mainly sold on shopping websites and 24-hour convenience stores, and the sales scenes are including young people’s shopping, friends gathering, and drinking alone. The consumers usually drink the “Dou Xiao Jiu” Baijiu with dishes such as barbecue, hot pot and etc., which are favored by Chinese young people.
Project Duration and Location: The project commenced in March 2021 in Beijing and was completed in December 2021 in Beijing and commenced in March 2022 in the market.
Specifications: Single bottle: 15mm*7mm*3mm Box: 320mm*320*50mm 24 bottles transportation box: 340mm*220mm*340mm
Keywords: Small-scale Baijiu; Comics; Young generation; Brand design; Product packaging