Kuoca Premium Blends 化粧品 by Minwoo Song is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 金賞 in 美容・パーソナルケア・化粧品デザイン Competition Category.

金化粧品· 2021

Kuoca Premium Blends 化粧品

by Minwoo Song

Client: Kuoca Skin Company

A' Design Award 金賞 Winner in 化粧品 Category

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The Design

About Kuoca Premium Blends 化粧品

このパッケージデザインは、ファインダイニングのコアコンセプトを体現しています。箱を開けると、まるでレストランにいるかのように、最初にシェフからのグリーティングカードが現れます。そこには成分と製造日が記されており、コンセプトを伝えています。容器はシンプルなシルエットと自然な色彩でデザインされ、また製品のネッカチーフはシェフの権威の象徴となっています。これは革なめし、手縫い、ロゴの刻印といった工程で、すべて手作業で行われています。これを通じて、Kuocaの象徴的なイメージを構築しています。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金賞

Kuoca Premium Blends 化粧品は、まさに素晴らしく傑出した第一級のデザインに授与される、計り知れないほど権威ある評価である A' Design Award 金賞の受賞作品です。金賞の受賞作品は、きわめて革新的で、先見性に富み、きらびやかに輝く創造物であり、デザイナーの天才性、叡智、卓越した技量を映し出しています。Kuoca Premium Blends 化粧品は、最も称賛される、流行を牽引する記念碑的な発明であり、前例のない価値をもたらすことが期待されます。この A' Design Award 金賞を受賞したデザインは、壮観で尊敬されるプロジェクトであり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に大きく寄与し、それを前進させます。Kuoca Premium Blends 化粧品は、強い欲求を生み出し、情熱を呼び覚まし、創造性を促し、私たちを引きつけます。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: KUOCA is a premium skincare brand. We provide high-quality skin care products through the finest raw materials such as white truffle and our own developed raw material processing technology.

Through the design concept of fine dining in a modern premium style, it not only delivered the high quality of the product, but also created a user experience that looks like tasting the chef's fine dining dishes.
Dimensions & Packaging: the Bottle: 42 mm x 42 mm x 84 mm
*Pump-shaped cap to minimize air contact. Glass containers, handmade leather decoration.

the Box: 105 mm x 80 mm x 150 mm
the Chef's greeting card: 60 mm x 110 mm
*All parts of the package are made of recyclable pulp.
Tags: skincare, Premium, Cosmetic, Beauty, Fine-dining, Kuoca, Restaurant, Craftmanship, Serum, Cream
Production Technology: we made it possible to feel the delicate and sensual experience of fine-dining in a premium restaurant through design.

The neckerchief of the product is an element that becomes a key point of design. this is a symbol of the authority of chefs. This is a process of leather, hand-stitched, and engraved logos, all of which are handmade. Through this, it has built up a symbolic image of Kuoca, which has never been seen anywhere.

As it uses organic and natural ingredients, a pumping style bottle is used to minimize aerial exposure. Minimized contacts with hands allows hygienic use of the product. The overall design is simple to create a sophisticated mood, but it has a moderate weight. The body uses a glass material that shows a little inside, and the pump is evaporated with matte metal to create a premium mood.
Design Challenge: KUOCA as a new brand, is targeting for premium market. It was our mission to show that the product is premium through design in a convincing way. So, the concept of the product decided to emphasize not only the aesthetic aspect but also the functional aspect.
The Chef‘s Greeting Card was created to effectively convey the strengths of the product, the good ingredients and the advantages of being produced within 30 days.
Furthermore, to differentiate from other brands, a neck ornament is created that is made of artificial leather, hardly used in existing cosmetics packages. The ornament built an iconic KUOCA-only image that has never been seen anywhere else.
Research: -A study on the experience of using cosmetics. When focusing on individual package design, the target mood or brand image can be experienced in the entire process from viewing the display in the store, opening the box, using the product, and disposing of the product.

-Set a new standard for purchasing cosmetics. Previously, the expiration date was indicated, but the manufacturing date was not emphasized. As a result, users do not even realize whether the manufacturing date of cosmetics is important. With a design that emphasized the date of manufacture of cosmetics, it proposed a new standard when purchasing cosmetics.
Inspiration: To convey the characteristics of sophisticated way of production capturing experts philosophy and tenacity, a fine-dining concept was used for the design. Fine dining restaurants embed stories for each ingredient cooked for a dish. Storytelling sublimates dining as an experience more than a mere stuffing of a stomach.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2019 in Seoul, and finished in August 2019 there, it was officially launched in September 2019 also in Seoul.
Operation Flow: As a result, people don't simply wear cosmetics, they have a premium experience as if they were treated to a high-end restaurant meal.
Kuoca is designed to make sure that the customer can cherish all moments including introduction of cosmetic ingredients, give meanings to each ingredient, process of production and the moment of opening the box. In addition, utilizing diverse motives related to a chef, differentiated visual image is created.

-When it was in the store, it was a new brand with a differentiated package design and texture, but it was made to stand out.
-A gift-like box design makes customer experience all the more special.
-When you open the box, you first see a recipe card with the date of manufacture and ingredients, so you can see the freshness.
-When the card is opened, the concept of chef is conveyed through a container with a neck decoration.
-Used boxes can be reused for other purposes or recycled when discarded.
Team Members: Minwoo Song
Jungeun Yang
U-Ran Cho
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Jaewook Jung, Kuoca Premium Blends, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Jaewook Jung, Cream Blend, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Jaewook Jung, Serum Blend, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Jaewook Jung, Box Package, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Jaewook Jung, Cream Blend and Box, 2019.

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