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Yanghe Naked Bottle Liquor Baijiu Packaging by Liandong Zhang and Xueqian Zhang Wins the Golden A' Design Award in Packaging Design
Liandong Zhang and Xueqian Zhang honored 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/ Yanghe Naked Bottle Liquor Baijiu Packaging by Liandong Zhang and Xueqian Zhang, designed for Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery Co., Ltd, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Yanghe Naked Bottle Liquor Baijiu Packaging
Yanghe Naked Bottle Liquor is a packaging design for baijiu, a Chinese distilled spirit. The crystal glass bottle joins a classic plum bottle shape with simple, modern lines. A goat-horn structure on the bottle refers to the traditional goat pattern of the brand. The butterfly label is kept and refined, with plain lines and a restrained color combination. The blue-green tone of the bottle stands out on retail shelves. The design aims to give plain bottle liquor a higher perceived value and a clear brand identity. The bottle measures 76 by 76 by 257 millimeters.
Award Record
Liandong Zhang and Xueqian Zhang is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2024 - 2025 edition 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/170767
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/170767
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!170767
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/356337
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Yanghe Naked Bottle Liquor Baijiu Packaging
- Function
- Baijiu Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Teal, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Cyan, Slate Gray and Steel Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Liandong Zhang and Xueqian Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #170767
Credits
- Team
- Liandong Zhang, Xueqian Zhang, Chenchen Li, Ruidong Hua
- Image Credits
- Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery Co., Ltd
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Yanghe and Yanghe Daqu have a glorious historical honor. The design elements are retained in the classic "butterfly label" shape optimization, highlighting the simple lines and color combinations in the design details. And finally presented a design effect of combining traditional classic and fashionable simplicity. The bottle color of blue-green in the white liquor shelf is an obvious differentiation, which instantly catches the eye of consumers, display effect is outstanding.
- Inspiration
- The product was designed around four key concepts, "the nostalgic spirit of modernity, the unfamiliar sense of deja vu, the industrial customized style, and the more value-added basal products". The packaging continues the classic elements of the plum bottle and butterfly label, with a retro and graceful quality that highlights the product's fashion sense, strengthens consumers' brand recognition of Yanghe, rediscovers the Yanghe gene, and pays homage to the classics.
- Research
- In order to solve the current situation of Cheap feeling of naked bottle liquor, Yanghe Naked Bottle Liquor replicates the classic and makes a sense of value, reshaping the brand base, which is the purpose of our design.
- Challenge
- The key challenge is to determine the design features, and it is difficult to control the collision between traditional and fashionable styles and the choice between the two. Considering the glorious historical honor of Yanghe and Yanghe Daqu, the design elements are retained in the classic "butterfly label" shape optimization, highlighting the simple lines and color combinations in the design details. And finally presented a design effect of combining traditional classic and fashionable simplicity.
- Realization and Technology
- With the core concept of ''avenue to simplicity, historical glory'', Yanghe Naked Bottle Liquor perfectly integrates the classic liquor bottle shape with futuristic lines. The crystal glass bottle is like liquid moonlight, and the unique goat-horn structure of the bottle alludes to the classic "goat" pattern of Yanghe. This revolutionary bottle combines traditional packaging ideas with zero-redundancy design to embrace quality. When oriental craftsmanship meets modern aesthetics, it redefines the new paradigm of baijiu aesthetics with cultural self-confidence and excellent quality.
- Operation and Interaction
- The product was designed around four key concepts "the nostalgic spirit of modernity, the unfamiliar sense of deja vu, the industrial customized style, and the more value-added basal products", with a retro and graceful quality that highlights the product's fashion sense.
- Project Duration and Location
- From November 2024 Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
- Specifications
- bottle: 76mm*76mm*257mm, 520g; box: 253mm*253mm*267.5mm, 860g
- Keywords
- Yanghe, Naked Bottle Liquor, Classic, Elegant
