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Yingjiagong Baijiu Beverage by Wen Liu and Xianwen Wu Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Packaging Design
Wen Liu and Xianwen Wu acknowledged for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Yingjiagong Baijiu Beverage by Wen Liu and Xianwen Wu, designed for Anhui Yingjiagong Jiu Co., Ltd, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 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 Yingjiagong Baijiu Beverage
Yingjiagong Baijiu is a packaging design for a Chinese distilled spirit. The shape of the Dabie Mountain is used as the main design element. Traditional Chinese ink painting and line drawing are combined to form the mountain image. A large area of white space is applied, and green is the main color. The outer box is made of plastic to reduce cost and allow recycling. The bottle and the cap are made of ceramic with a sprayed finish. The box measures 136 mm in length, 116 mm in width and 290 mm in height. The design presents the natural fermentation setting of the distillery.
Award Record
Wen Liu and Xianwen Wu is a winner of 11 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2019 - 2020 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/89960
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/89960
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!89960
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/249896
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Yingjiagong Baijiu Beverage
- Function
- Beverage
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Medium Aquamarine, Lavender, Cadet Blue, Sky Blue and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Anhui Yingjiagong Jiu Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wen Liu and Xianwen Wu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #89960
Credits
- Team
- Designer Wen Liu, Designer Xianwen Wu, Designer Mao Li and Designer Weijie Kang
- Image Credits
- Creator Wen Liu, Yingjiagong Baijiu, 2019; Creator Xianwen Wu, Yingjiagong Baijiu, 2019; Creator Mao Li, Yingjiagong Baijiu, 2019; Creator Weijie Kang, Yingjiagong Baijiu, 2019; Photographer Sailin Zhang, Yingjiagong Baijiu, 2019
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The distillery of Yingjiagong locates in the Huoshan County of Anhui Province, an international ecological county belt at 30 degrees north latitude. The pollution-free mountain spring water in the Dabie Mountains in the nature reserve can produce a fine Baijiu. The Dabie Mountain has several natural advantages such as the ecological production area, the ecological water, the ecological raw material, the ecological fermentation, and the ecological recycling. The idea of the design is to promote the ecological and natural fermentation environment of Baijiu of Huoshan County. The design develops the product concept.
- Inspiration
- The design element uses Dabie Mountain as a creative point in this project. The distillery of Yingjiagong Baijiu is in the mountainous area. The topographical trend image of Huoshan county has inspired the design. The designers combined the mountain shape with the traditional Chinese ink painting and line expression on the design. The image of the design seems strong and full of charm. The overall colour of the design is white. The main colour tone is green with a strong Chinese calligraphy and painting feature. The design highlights the concept of Yingjiagong Baijiu the way Chinese people's sincere hospitality and the traditional Baijiu culture.
- Research
- The distillery of Yingjiagong Baijiu has an ecological and natural geographical fermentation environment with a profound cultural background. After I had researched and visited the site of the distillery of Yingjiagong then I started to design the project.
- Challenge
- In the early stage of the design process, the designers had not produced the combination of tradition and modernity elements of the project design style very well. So the designers have continuously improved the design expression and cost control, and then the final effect went well.
- Realization and Technology
- The outside box is made of plastic for cost reduction and recycling. The bottle is made of ceramic with a spray pint. The bottle cap is also made of ceramic.
- Operation and Interaction
- he project aims to promote the natural Baijiu fermentation environment of the distillery of Yingjiagong. The distillery of Yingjiagong Baijiu places in the mountainous area of Dabie Mountain. Dabie Mountain has been used as a creative point in the design. The topographical trend map of Huoshan County also has inspired this design project. This design combines with a traditional Chinese ink painting and line expressions in the design to play a role in communication and promotion. In the later stage of design, the application of material and technology has continuously improved. The final result of the project went well.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in November 2018 in Shenzhen and finished in March 2019 in Shenzhen.
- Specifications
- The outside packaging box size is 136mm in length, 116mm in width and 290mm in height.
- Keywords
- Technology, Style, Bottle shape design, Liangsanjiang, Sanxingdui, Cultural relic
