Wuliang Image 白酒包装 by Luo Heng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 银奖 in 包装设计 Competition Category.

银包装· 2022

Wuliang Image 白酒包装

by Luo Heng

Client: Laboratory and Hopeful

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 包装 Category

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The Design

About Wuliang Image 白酒包装

《五粮映像》是为中国白酒品牌打造的白酒包装设计。瓶型灵感源自明代抱月瓶，浑圆的瓶身寓意满月与团圆之意。流转的曲线与水波纹饰如丝绸般包裹瓶体。玻璃瓶身采用喷砂工艺，并饰以玫瑰金浮雕标识，瓶盖则运用哑光金属电镀工艺。外盒选用磨砂金亚克力材质，结合浮雕金属与烫金工艺。半透明的肌理质感带来稳固舒适的握持体验。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Wuliang Image 白酒包装是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Wuliang Image 白酒包装将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Wuliang Image 白酒包装是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The design of Wuliang Image adopts abstract and artistic elements to make the visual experience full of imagination, uses modern methods to convey the essence and connotation of Chinese traditional culture and show the unique charm of oriental culture. Wuliang Image perfectly integrates the historical weight of Chinese Baijiu with modern fashion elements, which matches the brand slogan of “Wuliang Quality, Oriental Image”.
Dimensions & Packaging: The bottle is wrapped by water wave stripes just like the water wave is embracing the bottle body, the translucent grinding texture brings a special visual pleasure and upgrade the tactile experience for stable and comfort grip.
Tags: Liquor packaging, Chinese traditional culture, oriental culture, container design, ethnic culture, modern design
Production Technology: The bottle body is made of glass with sandblasting process and embossed with rose gold logo; the top of the bottle uses matte metal electroplating process; the box body is made of frosted gold acrylic with relief metal and hot stamping process.
Design Challenge: This packaging integrates the brand culture of Wuliangye, modern culture and oriental culture. Through the unique letter design of "Wuliang" and "Image" and the red frosted bottle cap, it inherits the brand's culture well. At the same time, it uses the elements such as "curve lines" and "waves" and multiple processes including engraving, embossing, hot stamping, electroplating, etc. to combinate the essence of oriental culture and modern culture better.
Research: Research type: liquor packaging design;
Research goal: to give Wuliang Group a new cultural character;
Research direction: integrating oriental culture and modern culture;
Research methods: online data, classic books, fieldwork and interview;
Social influence: Wuliang Image bottle packaging combines classic and fashion. With profound cultural heritage, it shows the confidence of Chinese liquor culture and brand and the image of Chinese Baijiu products in the new era.
Inspiration: The design inspiration of the bottle comes from the Ming Dynasty "Moon bottle". The bottle body resembles the full moon conveying the meaning of “reunion". The bottle is decorated with flexible lines conveying the meaning of “the Chinese Baijiu is the burning water,” the bottle is wrapped by water wave stripes that look like the silk, which is full of Chinese traditional culture character.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2021 in Torino and finished.
Operation Flow: For the bottle design, the imagination (frosted water waves) generated from “Image” embraces “Wuliang”; In other words, the Wuliang Image is the most imaginative, artistic design in Wuliangye, giving Wuliang Group a new cultural character.
Team Members: Luo Heng
Image Credits: Luo Heng