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Antonia Skaraki Receives the A' Design Award for Lucky Bread Food Packaging in Packaging Design
Antonia Skaraki recognized for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Lucky Bread Food Packaging by Antonia Skaraki, designed for A|S Strategy, Branding & Communication, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored 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.
Regarding Lucky Bread Food Packaging
This corporate gift, a wishing gift for the new year, unites tradition and modernity, featuring a handcrafted bread adorned with symbolic motifs, created by the artisan Xompliastres of Marathos, Crete. Each ornament embodies profound aspirations such as transformation, protection, and rebirth. The design is a tribute to a vanishing art form, encapsulating cultural heritage and collective hopes in a unique, intricately ornamented bread, encased within a thoughtfully illustrated box. This gift serves as both a celebration of artistry and a vessel for wishes of prosperity and success.
About Antonia Skaraki
AS Strategy, Design & Communication is an Athens-based creative studio specialising in brand strategy, visual identity and narrative development. The studio works across sectors, helping organisations shape how they present themselves through clear, structured and concept-driven design. Its approach combines strategic thinking with strong creative direction, focusing on building cohesive brand systems that communicate effectively across different platforms and audiences.
Award Record
With this recognition, Antonia Skaraki is a winner of 30 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2024 - 2025 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/163794
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/163794
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!163794
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/152711
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.antoniaskaraki.com/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Lucky Bread Food Packaging
- Function
- Food Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Midnight Blue, Peru, Sienna, Indian Red and Dark Slate Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- A|S Strategy, Branding & Communication
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Antonia Skaraki
- Country
- Greece
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #163794
Credits
- Team
- 14
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Lucky Bread is a unique, handcrafted gift inspired by traditional Cretan wedding bagels, where each bread is adorned with intricate symbols that convey messages of fortune and new beginnings. The design stands out by combining ancient artistry with modern personalization, using symbols such as the lotus, dragonfly, and tree of life to reflect optimism, protection, and transformation. The bread is presented in a beautifully illustrated box, further enhancing its uniqueness and cultural significance.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration for the Lucky Bread project came from a desire to preserve and celebrate the vanishing art form of traditional wedding bagels crafted by the artisans of Marathos, Crete. This project reflects a deeper cultural homage, where symbolism, craftsmanship, and personalization converge to create a unique product. Each ornamented bread piece conveys messages of prosperity and success, bringing together ancient symbolism with modern gifting traditions.
- Research
- Based on the team's different places of origin, we researched the local customs and we selected the most interesting one. A special bread ornamented by women and offered usually at weddings. This bread-ring is first shaped out of dough and then each woman crafts an ornament. We gave the women our own symbols to craft and place on the main body. Stamatakis Cretan bakery baked and placed them in the box we had manufactured. In this form, fresh and cased it was delivered to our clients.
- Challenge
- The hardest part of baking a custom bread such as this is to create new and unique symbols our of dough. The artisans had to change their kneading habit of the ordinary symbols and turn to something new, more intricate.
- Realization and Technology
- The Lucky Bread project involved collaborating with traditional Cretan artisans, known as "xompliastres," who meticulously hand-shaped and decorated each bread with meaningful symbols. The bread was made using traditional dough and carefully molded into intricate designs, reflecting ancient craftsmanship techniques. The packaging features detailed illustrations of the symbols used, creating a cohesive visual narrative. The process required close collaboration with artisans to ensure the symbolic intricacies and cultural integrity were preserved.
- Operation and Interaction
- This is a box full of symbolisms. When the user opens this box and finds a ring made of bread with the same symbolisms that exist on the box. Inside also one finds a leaflet which explains every symbolism. All the symbolisms are for good luck.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project started in March and finished in October in Athens and Crete. It was sent to 150 clients.
- Specifications
- Diameter: 330mm x height: 80mm. Product technology: Offcet, Cmyck and Varnish. Material: Paper Velvet 150g. We used varnish, paper lamination and handcrafted skills.
- Keywords
- Lucky Bread, traditional Cretan wedding bread, artisan craftsmanship, symbolic bread design, wedding bagels, prosperity symbols, handcrafted bread, corporate gift, Cretan traditions
