Tiger Pan · CLIENT: Jinmailang Beverage Co., Ltd
Liang Bai Kai is a glass bottle designed for cooled boiled drinking water. The name refers to boiled water that has cooled, a drink long common in China. The bottle carries no label. Instead, artwork from the Song dynasty painting Riverside Scene from Tsingming is repainted and applied to the glass by heat transfer printing. The image is divided across twelve bottles, representing the twelve traditional hours. The glass surface adds gloss and texture. Each bottle measures 313 millimeters in height and 76.5 millimeters in diameter.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The main function of the bottle is to contain cool-down boiled water, meaning Liang Bai Kai. What comes next is the label-less bottle contains and shares with the consumers a very important part of ancient Chinese art. Chinese is the only ethnic who drink hot water when it is cool down in their daily life. And the habit can be traced back in 7BC.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- height 313mm x diameter 76.5mm
- Tags
- water, Chinese water, bottle, package, label-less
- Production Technology
- The glass material will differentiate the wine from its competitive brands, who are normally packed in plastic. Bottled in glass, the gloss and texture is upgraded on the surface.
- Design Challenge
- Regarding the artwork, the original version is vague so we rearrange the layout and paint it all again, which is separated by the 12 bottles, representing 12 earthly branches hours. As for the technique to realize the drawings, 4 different kinds of crafts are tried out and we succeeded in heat transfer printing.
- Project Duration
- The project lasts 5 months, designed in Shenzhen.
- Operation Flow
- How to save consumer's effort to look for an ideal product is the key challenge of this case. A distinctive symbol, an explicit layout of info and a unitive serial system of package will help Wellmind to solve the problem, where consumers are able to recognize and pick up the products from far away.While it is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it also makes it difficult for new changes. Today, the brand image of Liang Bai Kai needs to be presented to consumers in a contemporary aesthetic.
- Research
- To drink cool-down boiled water is an inherited habit from the ancient time. The new packaging design is bring the heritage to the modern life of Chinese along with a different perspective to appreciate traditional arts.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration is from the national treasury artwork of Riverside Scene from Tsingming made in Song dynasty over 1000 years ago. It is the only piece among the famous ten that illustrates the life of ordinary people' s life instead of that of the nobles. So the painting is echoing with the product of Liang Bai Kai so well that it is repainted and carved on the bottles.
- Image Credits
- Tiger Pan
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