Ucon 礦泉水樽 by Chi Forest is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 金獎 in 包裝設計 Competition Category.

金包裝· 2022

Ucon 礦泉水樽

by Chi Forest

Client: Ucon

A' Design Award 金獎 Winner in 包裝 Category

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The Design

About Ucon 礦泉水樽

Ucon係一款為天然礦泉水而設嘅樽身設計。樽嘅上半部分以石頭作為主要視覺符號,而下半部分就採用咗基於參數化三角曲面嘅多切面礦石造型。兩個部分形成對比,同時又保持整體和諧。切割邊緣保持順滑,令握感更加舒適。標籤採用水性油墨印刷,以減少印刷過程嘅排放,珠光薄膜呈現出黑色岩石、白點同金色條紋嘅質感。樽身尺寸為64乘64乘220毫米。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金獎

Ucon 礦泉水樽是 A' Design Award 金獎得主，這是授予一流、絕妙而傑出設計的極為崇高的認可。金獎得主是極具創新、極富遠見且璀璨奪目的創作，反映出其設計師的天才、智慧與才幹。預計Ucon 礦泉水樽將成為一項備受讚譽、引領潮流、氣勢恢宏的發明，帶來前所未有的價值。這件贏得 A' Design Award 金獎的設計是一個壯觀而受人敬重的項目，極大地造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Ucon 礦泉水樽激起強烈的渴望，喚起激情，鼓勵創造力，令我們著迷。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: It is the first high-quality drinking water brand featuring soft mineral water in China. The upper part of the bottle body takes "stone" as the super symbol, and the lower part uses the special ore bottle body design based on the parametric design of triangular plane. The overall design of the two parts shows harmony while having contrast.
Dimensions & Packaging: 64mm x 64mm x 220mm
Tags: Branding, Packaging, Can, 3D, Mineral Water
Production Technology: The label adopts advanced adagio printing technology, using environmentally friendly water-based ink. Greatly reduce the label production process of pollution emissions.
fully closed water source protection area, to ensure pollution-free water source.
The use of advanced blowing, filling and rotating production line, high cleanliness of the filling environment, to ensure that the filling process clean pollution-free.
Design Challenge: 1. Label
In order to visually best present the black rock texture, white dot texture and gold stripe texture, we finally chose the Pearlized BOPP. The upper part shows the brand visual symbol "stone", and the lower part shows the stone texture of the bottle body.
2. Bottle
Bottle design through the depiction of stone structure, based on the design of triangular surface, forming a contrast between the upper and lower . overall showing the harmony of the overall design, making the edge surface not too rough, while ensuring the aesthetic feeling and grip comfort.
Research: Memory come from the subtraction of visalization, the birth of label "stone".Minimalism is deep in Chinese culture. We found that the "stone" is not only meets the needs of identification, but also perfectly interprets the brand story of "Every drop of water is naturally filtered through underground deep ore". Subtraction could make memorisation, the white space is a powerful attitude. This attitude is reflected in the name of our product as well as in the new generation of consumers.
Inspiration: Purified water by stones,Ore is the best proof of good water The soft water is filtered through dense layers of hard ore After absorbing mineral ions from the ore, it gushes out of the ground. It becomes a real high quality natural mineral water.
In chinese fengshui theory, stone is naturally exist , absorb the essence of the sun and the moon In thousand years, people admire stone and obtained energy from the spiritual stone ,"Stone" also means avoid disasters , turn misfortune to lucky
Project Duration: The project started in OCT 2020, and completed in July, 2021. The design was completed in December, 2021. The production location is Dali and Laoshan.
Operation Flow: From the bottle design, the ore cutting design fully shows the aesthetic feeling, but also to ensure the user's comfortable grip. In addition, "UCON" in Chinese named with social constitution, is a natural "social currency", focusing on the young . There are stories, can quickly form a social topic among young people.
Patents: Patents number：2021308675699（Application has been submitted and is under review）
Trademark：42724486
Team Members: Shuo Qu, Yuxin Jia, Xiaolan Xiao, Qian Li, Kaiwen Zhang, Pu Han
Image Credits: Shuo Qu, Yuxin Jia, Xiaolan Xiao,Pu Han