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Grassy Premiados Opakowanie na kawę by Dimitri Lociks

Grassy Premiados Opakowanie na kawę by Dimitri Lociks is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Srebrna Nagroda A' Design Award in Wzornictwo Opakowań Competition Category.


SrebrnaOpakowania· 2022

Grassy Premiados Opakowanie na kawę

by Dimitri Lociks

Client: Grassy Caffè

Srebrna Nagroda A' Design Award Winner in Opakowania Category

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The Design

About Grassy Premiados Opakowanie na kawę

Grassy Premiados to projekt opakowania dla brazylijskiej kawy specialty. Pudełko ma organiczne i modułowe kształty inspirowane nasionami mahoniu, ziarnami kawy oraz krzywiznami brazylijskiej architektury modernistycznej. Modułowa forma pozwala na sztaplowanie i wyróżniającą się ekspozycję na półkach. Pudełko wykonane jest z tektury z laminowaniem matowym, tłoczeniem na gorąco oraz drukiem monochromatycznym. Kawa przechowywana jest w plastikowej torbie z zaworem, który chroni ziarna przed dostępem tlenu. Samoprzylepna etykieta z folii metalicznej zamyka pudełko i zawiera informacje o produkcie, co umożliwia szybką personalizację przy niskich kosztach.

The Recognition

About the Srebrna Nagroda A' Design Award

Grassy Premiados Opakowanie na kawę to laureat Srebrnej Nagrody A' Design Award, niezwykle prestiżowego wyróżnienia przyznawanego przepięknym, imponującym projektom z najwyższej półki. Laureaci Srebrnej Nagrody to niezwykle błyskotliwe i wyjątkowo twórcze dzieła, które ukazują wybitną wiedzę, talent i przenikliwość ich twórców. Grassy Premiados Opakowanie na kawę ma być wspaniałym, reprezentacyjnym dziełem, które jest niezwykle profesjonalne i głęboko innowacyjne. Ten projekt nagrodzony Srebrną Nagrodą A' Design Award to bardzo godny uwagi, podziwiany wynalazek, który przynosi korzyści i przesuwa granice sztuki, nauki, designu i technologii. Grassy Premiados Opakowanie na kawę to dzieło, któremu wielu zazdrości, które budzi pragnienia, wprowadza pozytywne uczucia oraz wzbudza zdumienie i zachwyt.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
Grassy Premium packaging was designed to allow a high impact visual display on shelves, at an affordable cost and easy to assemble, adding value to award-winning Brazilian coffees. Its organic shapes are also modular, which allows for stacking and a very differentiated way of displaying on shelves and showcases. The packaging also features an adhesive label solution, which allows for quick and varied customization of the packaging.
Dimensions & Packaging
The assembled package is 20 centimeters wide, 14 centimeters high, and 14.5 centimeters deep.
Tags
package, Brazilian coffee, biomimetic, bio design,
Production Technology
The Grassy Premium packaging has two moments, the box was developed to be produced in large batches, to amortize the investment in graphic finishes with higher cost and added value, while the labels are manufactured on demand, in short runs. The box was designed to ensure high perceived value at a low cost. We use cardboard, matte lamination, hot stamp, and monochrome printing. The labels are made of metallic BOPP film with special printing and cutting. The coffee, as it needs special protection against oxygen and other external agents, is protected in a plastic bag with valve.
Design Challenge
The main challenge was to make a paper packaging that had an exceptional aesthetics, but was functional, modular and easy to use. The solutions started from a design approach inspired by nature, observing formal solutions, modulation and visual appeal in mahogany seeds and coffee beans. Another difficulty was to reconcile a very organic design with requirements of economic and productive viability. In this sense, we work together with suppliers, testing materials, printing and assembly solutions that enabled packaging with high perceived value, but low production cost.
Research
The project started from a briefing interview, where the client's demands were defined. We then started market research that revealed the need for a more innovative approach to designing award-winning coffees. We analyzed luxury packaging, but the final inspiration came from observing nature and studying biomimetics. After the phase of creating alternatives, we go on to validation with the client, prototyping, and testing. Then we started the budget, feasibility analysis, adjustments, closing files, prototype approval and final production phase.
Inspiration
The packaging design was inspired by the shapes and modulations of seeds, in addition to the curves of Brazilian modernist architecture, allowing not only a very different look for the project but also the possibility of a unique modulation. The great insight of the packaging came from a walk in the park in Brasilia, where we found a mahogany seed that sparked our gaze to other sources of solution, such as the shape of the coffee bean and the curves of the Oscar Niemeyer's architecture, resulting in the construction of an elegant and innovative Brazilian symbology.
Project Duration
The project lasted 6 months, with 3 months in the design phase in Brasilia, 2 months in the adjustments, budget and production phase in Santa Catarina, and another 1 month in the training and launch phase, in Sao Paulo.
Operation Flow
The package assembly process is simple: the first step is to place the coffee in the plastic bag, extracting the oxygen, then take the package planned for assembly, carefully reinforcing the creases. After assembling the box, we insert the bag with the coffee in it and, finally, we seal the box with an adhesive label that defines the information about the product.
Team Members
Designer and Creative Director: Dimitri Lociks; Design member: Simone Turíbio; Feasibility consultant: Marília Turíbio
Image Credits
all images and videos: photographer Dimitri Lociks, study with shadows, 2021.

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