Silver Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design · 2025
Gatorade Rookie Bottle Stainless Steel Bottle
by PepsiCo Design and Innovation
- A' Design Award 2025 Silver Winner in Advertising, Marketing and Communication Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
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About Gatorade Rookie Bottle Stainless Steel Bottle
Gatorade Rookie Bottle is an insulated stainless steel water bottle designed for young athletes. The reduced size is easier for children to hold and drink from. A built-in carrying handle supports mobility, and a dent-resistant shell protects the bottle when dropped. A leak-proof straw cap limits spills. The double-wall stainless steel interior provides more than 24 hours of insulation. The design was developed with feedback from parents and youth athletes, who identified mobility, durability and cleanability as the main needs.
PepsiCo Design and Innovation's Stainless Steel Bottle emerges from contemporary traditions of youth-oriented product design where functional hydration vessels transcend mere utility to become expressive objects of personal identity and aspirational lifestyle communication, the design team appears to have engaged deeply with visual languages familiar to younger audiences drawing upon pop art traditions of bold graphic simplification comic book aesthetics of dynamic energy representation and the sticker-culture phenomenon that transforms everyday objects into canvases for self-expression and collection, the technical execution demonstrates sophisticated understanding of surface decoration on challenging substrates with the illustrated graphics maintaining crisp registration and vibrant color fidelity across the curved cylindrical form while the coral-orange lid assembly introduces ergonomic intelligence through its integrated carrying loop and intuitive flip-spout mechanism, thematically the work celebrates achievement enthusiasm and active participation through its vocabulary of trophies lightning bolts megaphones and celebratory typography suggesting the vessel serves not merely as hydration container but as talisman of athletic aspiration and youthful accomplishment, the chromatic strategy deploys high-saturation hues associated with energy vitality and optimism while the cerulean ground color evokes both refreshment and the traditional associations of sports hydration products, iconographically the design draws upon universally recognized symbols of encouragement victory and team spirit creating a visual narrative of positive reinforcement and athletic culture participation, the compositional density of graphic elements rewards extended viewing with discoveries of smaller details while maintaining overall coherence through consistent illustration style and harmonious color relationships, viewers might consider how everyday functional objects increasingly serve as vehicles for identity expression and how design transforms utilitarian necessity into opportunities for joy playfulness and aspirational communication
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- In February 2024, we launched The Gatorade Rookie Bottle, a new stainless steel bottle designed to meet the unique needs of younger competitors. Because their thirst is different, the Rookie Bottle needed to be different. To perfect the new design, we took feedback and insights directly from parents and their youth athletes. With their help, we identified three crucial features and functions: mobility, durability and cleanability.
- Inspiration
- When it comes to hydration, kids don't need as much volume; likewise, the larger size makes it harder for them to hold and drink from larger bottles. Even aspiring athletes tend to drop their bottles often, so we created a durable design, complete with a built-in carrying handle and dent-resistant shell that protects the bottle from drops. Plus, we added a leak-proof straw cap to minimize spills, and a double-wall stainless steel interior that provides more than 24 hours of insulation.
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