Dream of the Blue Manual Class 酒类包装 by Jingzhang Xiao, Ru Li and Aizong Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 银奖 in 包装设计 Competition Category.
银包装· 2023
Dream of the Blue Manual Class 酒类包装
by Jingzhang Xiao, Ru Li and Aizong Lin
Client: Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery Co., Ltd
A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 包装 Category
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About Dream of the Blue Manual Class 酒类包装
梦之蓝手工班是一款高端白酒（中国传统蒸馏酒）的包装设计。瓶体呈水滴造型，以深蓝为主色调，辅以金属金色点缀。瓶身玻璃经磨砂处理后再喷涂锤纹漆，营造出如窖泥般柔和温润的质感。瓶体雕刻纹样取自苏州古典园林的拱门造型，并镌刻品牌发展历程中的十二个重要节点。礼盒采用蓝色变色皮革与木纹纸相结合，并施以烫压工艺呈现精致细节。包装采用四码合一防伪系统，有效防止仿冒。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 银奖
Dream of the Blue Manual Class 酒类包装是 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Dream of the Blue Manual Class 酒类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。Dream of the Blue Manual Class 酒类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 product is a premium baijiu of the brand YANGHE, is ‘A living artifact in a drinking vessel, a vintage spirit in a artwork.’ The liquor is bottled in exquisite containers coloured in dark blue and metallic gold. Inspired by the concept of the ‘Arc of Time’, the designer of the bottles highlights the elements of craftsmanship and antiquity. The design is an arch from the Classical Gardens of Suzhou and the description of the twelves major events that Yanghe Group has undergone. hese engravings reflect the ingenuity of the liquor’ s artisan workshop. The body of the bottle is sandblasted before being coated in hammer finish paint. Its soft, warm coating feels like cellar mud, and is carved with Chinese characters of ‘old pit pool, old baijiu, old craftsmanship; more nucleoside and flavonoids; less quantity.’ A tribute to the ultimate in craftsmanship, exemplifying the Chinese spirit of craftsmanship.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Bottle:106 mm x 106 mm x 306 mm
Box:160mm x 128 mm x 348 mm - Tags
- crafts, Baijiu, spirit, packaging, art
- Production Technology
- The product has been continuously polished to achieve a breakthrough in the high combination of design, technology and craftsmanship.
Cover: Structured as a fracture-proof cover; painted in gold; printed on wrapped paper to show the printmaking effect.
Bottle: The sand-blasted process reflects the handmade hammered texture, with a frosted touch and like cellar mud.
Box: Using blue variegated leather with wooden textured paper, and the hot-pressed with the Yanghe 12 moments echoing the cover. - Design Challenge
- All greatness is created by hands! Dream of the Blue Manual Class is an aged handcrafted spirit with both cultural value and rare quality; Craftsmanship is not only a material act, but also a spiritual creation; The Manual Class is not only the ultimate good liquor, but also represents the Chinese spirit in the craft.
- Research
- Meeting the demand for more sophisticated and high-end daily necessities. The product is a premium baijiu of the brand YANGHE, produced from 600-years-old cellars by hand. Its production process is included in China’s list for Intangible Cultural Heritage. Overall, it is of great historical and artistic value. Consumer recognition of the product's packaging, quality and branding, as well as our continuous polishing of the product, has provided it with sustainable development.
- Inspiration
- The primary colour is inspired by - "the maturing process of cellar mud: during the brewing process, the colour of the old cellar turns from yellow to dimgray, from dimgray to greyish white, and finally to jet black, and the cellar mud takes on a colourful brilliance in the sun".
The product is designed in the shape of an inherited teardrop, with a combination of sandblasting in the form of movable type printing. Manual hammering, like cellar mud, warm to the touch, with dark blue and metallic gold. The ink is hidden with sprinkles of gold, deep but not dull, rich but not heavy, echoing quality of the product, conveying deep cultural richness and promoting the Chinese spirit of craftsmanship. - Project Duration
- 2021-May.2022,Nanjing,Jiangsu
The project started in August 2021 in Nanjing,Jiangsu and finished in May 2019, Nanjing, Jiangsu. - Operation Flow
- The product Dream of the Blue Manual Class uses the four-code correlation technology, enhancing from outside to inside layer by layer. The four-in-one anti-counterfeiting technology, boosting the split structure, is the most sophisticated technology that the industry has patented. To do a more powerful fight against manufacturing and marketing the fake, to protect the rights of the brand and make users more assured. At the meantime, the high-end appearance of the product and its profound connotation demonstrate the status and taste of users.
- Team Members
- Creative Director：Liandong Zhang；
Creative Director：Huashuang Liu；
Creative Director：Zhaoxin Zhu；
Designer：Jingzhang Xiao；
Designer：Ru Li；
Designer：Aizong Lin
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