Silver Packaging Design · 2024
Pepsi Big Football Event LTO Beverage Packaging
by PepsiCo Design and Innovation
- A' Design Award 2024 Silver Winner in Packaging Design
- Awarded April 15, 2024
- CLIENT: PepsiCo
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 117,870
- Verification code 41F3011DA2 · Verify this award
About Pepsi Big Football Event LTO Beverage Packaging
Pepsi Big Football Event LTO is a limited time offer beverage packaging design created for a major football tournament held in Qatar in 2022. The packaging shows photographs of real football fans of different nationalities, capturing the intense joy felt during a match. Paint filters were applied to the images to recall the practice of face painting among supporters and to give an artistic look. Matching key visuals and animations extend the same graphic language. The intent is to link the brand with local football fans during the event.
Working within the vibrant tradition of commemorative packaging design, this collection of beverage containers exemplifies how limited edition commercial objects can transcend their functional purpose to become meaningful cultural artifacts that celebrate human connection and shared experience, the design team has employed a sophisticated visual strategy wherein the signature cobalt blue serves not merely as brand identification but as a unifying chromatic environment that frames individual portraits like precious gems in an azure setting, each illustrated face represents a celebration of human diversity and the universal joy of communal gathering, rendered with a contemporary illustration technique that balances accessibility with artistic refinement through its combination of confident flat color areas and subtle tonal modeling that suggests dimensionality without sacrificing graphic clarity, the portraits capture expressions of genuine enthusiasm and anticipation with particular attention to the communicative power of smiling eyes and open expressions that transcend linguistic and cultural boundaries, the integration of bilingual typographic elements demonstrates thoughtful consideration of diverse audiences bringing together distinct writing systems in harmonious coexistence that mirrors the inclusive spirit of the portrayed individuals, compositionally the diagonal arrangement of overlapping containers creates dynamic visual energy appropriate to the excitement of significant gatherings while the repetitive rhythm establishes unity across the collection suggesting both individual uniqueness and collective belonging, the materiality is thoughtfully considered with realistic condensation droplets adding tactile authenticity that invites physical interaction while metallic rim highlights catch light suggesting the refreshing coolness within, this work invites viewers to consider how everyday commercial objects can serve as vehicles for cultural celebration and how thoughtful design transforms functional packaging into cherished commemorative keepsakes that capture the spirit of joyous occasions.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Wherever there is football, there is Pepsi. The brand wanted to celebrate the “Big Football Event (BFE)” in 2022 i in Qatar - the first time ever hosted by an Arab country - with an unexpected Pepsi twist. The brand wasn’t an official sponsor, but still wanted to make its presence known for this landmark event, and so it required a creative strategy to design limited time offer (LTO) packaging, key visuals, and animations that would capture all the excitement of local football fans.
- Inspiration
- The Design Team opted to feature football fans themselves on pack, depicting the intense joy felt throughout a match and their insatiable thirst to see their team win. Beginning by shooting photographs of real talents with different nationalities, the Design Team then applied paint filters to nod to the practice of fans face-painting during a match, as well as to give the images an overall artistic look and feel.
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