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Cedea - Dolomites' Luxury Mineral Water Aiga Minerala Embotelhada en Veire by Nick Pitscheider and Sharon Hassan

Cedea - Dolomites' Luxury Mineral Water Aiga Minerala Embotelhada en Veire by Nick Pitscheider and Sharon Hassan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 A' Design Award d'Argent in Dissènh d'Embalatge Competition Category.


ArgentEmbalatge· 2019

Cedea - Dolomites' Luxury Mineral Water Aiga Minerala Embotelhada en Veire

by Nick Pitscheider and Sharon Hassan

Client: Nick Pitscheider

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Embalatge Category

Colors

The Design

About Cedea - Dolomites' Luxury Mineral Water Aiga Minerala Embotelhada en Veire

Lo design de l'aiga Cedea es inspirat per las Dolomitas ladinas e las legendas tocant lo fenomèn luminós natural Enrosadira. Causadas per lor mineral unic, las Dolomitas resplandon d'una tencha rossastra e ardenta a l'alba e al crepuscle, donant al paisatge una atmosfèra magica. En "resemblant al legendari Jardin Magic de las Rosas", l'embalatge Cedea vòl capturar aqueste moment precís. Lo resultat es una botilha de veire que fa l'aiga resplandir e flambejar amb un efièch sorprenent. Las colors de la botilha son destinadas a evocar la lusor especiala de las Dolomitas banhadas dins lo roge ròsa del mineral e lo blau del cèl.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Cedea - Dolomites' Luxury Mineral Water Aiga Minerala Embotelhada en Veire a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award d'Argent, una reconeissença extraordinàriament prestigiosa acordada a de designs d'ort de gamma, esplendids e impressionants. Los ganhaires de l'Argent son d'òbras terriblament brilhantas e extrèmament creativas que illustran l'experiéncia, lo talent e la finessa excepcionals de lors designers. S'espèra que Cedea - Dolomites' Luxury Mineral Water Aiga Minerala Embotelhada en Veire siá una òbra meravilhosa e de referéncia, notablament professionala e prigondament innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award d'Argent es una invencion fòrça notabla e admirada, que fa un ben e fa avançar las frontièras de l'art, de la sciéncia, del design e de la tecnologia. Cedea - Dolomites' Luxury Mineral Water Aiga Minerala Embotelhada en Veire es una creacion immensament envejada que desrevelha de desirs, aduch de sentiments positius e fa néisser l'estonament e l'esmaiment.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The Cedea bottle, tall and smooth, is only made in first-class quality glass. Its thick coloured bottom (sculpted with the Cedea rose symbol) generates a unique colour glare effect spreading through the water, highlighted by the twisting vertical lines that give the bottle a delicate spiral asymmetric shape, resembling the natural shape of Cedea, the Goddess of Water and Life.
Dimensions & Packaging
Cedea water comes in two qualities, Still and Sparkling, and in two sizes.
Still Cedea water bottle is coloured in pinky red.
Sparkling Cedea water is coloured in turquoise.
The primary bottle is size 750ml. Height: 320 mm - Diameter: 83,7 mm
The half size bottle is 375ml. Height: 254 mm - Diameter: 69,8 mm
Tags
cedea, enrosadira, dolomites, luxury, lifestyle, premium mineral water, design
Production Technology
Cedea is only in first-quality white glass. The bottom, colour varnished, is unusually thick to allow the embedding of the Cedea rose symbol. Such thickness emphasizes also the "lens effect" that makes the symbol very visible in its carvings. The bottle is taller than usual: elegant and smooth. The shape presents three vertical engraved twisting lines. They make the bottle always delicately asymmetric, giving it a natural and unique silhouette. Such shape is difficult to achieve: In Italy only one glass maker was able to make it. The cap is in sleek aluminum delicately marked.
Design Challenge
The packaging for Cedea needed to be special. Unique, exclusive, but also elegant, smooth and memorable. The search for the wow effect led to using the water inside the bottle to be part of the packaging surprising look. The prototyping and experimentation of this was quite complex, as understanding the reaction of water to reflections and refraction is not an easy task. Then, we had to make it. It's a bottle expensive to make. Born to be different from the usual standards, the following challenge was to make all the elements come together to form the final bottle in a feasible way costwise.
Research
Initial research made clear the interest for high-end mineral waters on the international market. Five different designs were explored as drafts, to gather feedback from potential investors. The chosen, final design was developed to the end to be the Cedea packaging bottle. The key was to create a bottle that could carry successfully the values of the Dolomites: beauty, poetry, nature, purity, lifestyle. The Cedea bottle embeds the Dolomites Enrosadira legend, recreating its colour flaring inside the water itself, to be a unique and surprising water on the table of 5-stars customers.
Inspiration
Cedea was the Goddess of Water and Life by the traditional legends of the Ladin people, that inhabited the Dolomite mountains for over fifteen centuries. She is now the only mineral water from the heart of the Dolomites. It takes inspiration from their colourful phenomenon called Enrosadira, also linked to the Garden of Roses legend, that originated the rose flower brandmark as well. The Cedea bottles are meant to resemble the special glow of the Dolomites bathed in the Enrosadira rose red and the blue of the sky, creating a surprising colourful effect that makes the water glare and shine vibrantly.
Project Duration
The first drafts of Cedea bottle were made in 2012 - 2013.
After the consolidation of the company, the development of the bottle was brought to final product during 2017. In 2018 the Cedea website was online. Initially as teaser, finally unveiling the product in spring 2018.
Operation Flow
Handling the Cedea water bottle, its look changes as the reflections and refraction of the colour from the bottom spreads into the water in a very dynamic and vibrant way. Because of its twisting lines, the bottle shape is never symmetrical, achieving a smooth and more natural look.
Patents
The brand name Cedea is registered at UIBM - EUIPO - file n. 2013902212604 - ID 4721032 - Copyrights belong to Lizio Rizzi - Cedea CEO)
The brand mark Cedea is registered EUTM at EUIPO - file n. 016432502 - ID 816032
The brand mark Cedea is registered at WIPO - file n. 1369648 - ID 1048586
The Cedea Bottle design is registered RCD at EUIPO - WIPO - Des.n. 003932219-0001- ID 816032 (Designers: Nick Pitscheider, Sharon Hassan)
All Copyrights belong to Cedea Srls.
All the design was made by Nick Pitscheider - Nick Pitscheider/Sharon Hassan. All the design is internationally registered by Cedea.
The person responsible for all the Cedea design is Nick Pitscheider - Cedea Brand Manager.
Team Members
Nick Pitscheider
Sharon Hassan
Image Credits
All images are by Mattia Rizzi - Cedea Official Photographer.
(Including all the product shots and all the natural landscapes).

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