Meandre 香水瓶、香水包裝 by Jiawei Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銅獎 in 包裝設計 Competition Category.

銅包裝· 2022

Meandre 香水瓶、香水包裝

by Jiawei Wu

Client: Jiawei Wu Design

A' Design Award 銅獎 Winner in 包裝 Category

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The Design

About Meandre 香水瓶、香水包裝

Meandre係為一個天然香水品牌而設計嘅瓶身同包裝。呢個名源自法文,意指河流嘅彎曲蜿蜒。設計旨在營造一種漫步森林嘅沉浸式體驗。瓶蓋沿用彎曲樹枝嘅形態,而瓶身則由北美胡桃木經彎曲工藝塑造而成。一張資訊卡上印有相片,並描述咗啟發呢款香水嘅法國鄉郊森林。呢款香水只採用天然嘅木質香調。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅獎

Meandre 香水瓶、香水包裝是 A' Design Award 銅獎得主，這是授予以創造力、獨創性和敏銳見長的傑出設計的極具聲望的認可。銅獎得主是技藝嫻熟、創意驚人的作品，印證了其設計師豐富的經驗、想像力與機智。預計Meandre 香水瓶、香水包裝將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的物品，兼具顯著的專業性與創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銅獎的設計融入藝術、科學、設計和技術領域的最佳實踐，並因注重細節而出類拔萃。Meandre 香水瓶、香水包裝出色地滿足需求，觸動渴望，迷住情感，並吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The packaging system of the méandre is mainly focus on creating an immersive experience for customers to bring them wandering in forest with the footprints. The cap design reflects the image of natural shape with its bending branch. All stone-made bottle is an important representation of the beauty of nature. With the photo and description on the information card, users can picture the exact moment that the perfumer experience back in that little French rural forest. No matter where the customers live their lives, the méandre can bring them to the verdant forest immediately not only with the scent but with the whole packaging experience design.
Dimensions & Packaging: The product's design used a vector graphics editor. As a vector graphic, it can be scaled up and down without any loss to the quality of the image. The packaging final design was submitted in both RGB and CMYK color variants for printing and social media marketing. The bottle design uses Rhino to build it and choose a wood bending process with North American walnut.
Tags: Package Design, Perfume Bottle, Fragrance, Art Direction, Natural, Product
Production Technology: All the graphics were made in Adobe Illustrator to remain the vector quality. Final designs were delivered in RGB, CMYK, and Pantone colors in order to keep the brand color appearance consistent throughout all media. The bottle design uses Rhino to build it and choose a wood bending process with North American walnut.
Design Challenge: The visual translation of natural elements and brand image needs to find a balanced and creative point.The bottle package design is an innovative design with a complex structure, and the machining qualification rate is the biggest challenge encountered by this project.
Research: The objective starts from brand experience, brand personality and character definition, target audience. The experience defined – a journey in the forest with footmarks. Méandre is elegant, natural and chic. Thorough research of the history of perfume package design is conducted before concept development. Compared to other graphic design projects, I conducted way more user interviews and workshops on méandre due to its genuine quality of heavy user/customer interaction. It was a very interesting experience for me to deeply co-create concepts and content with users.
Inspiration: The brand personality and design was inspired by the French word "méandre", which means "curves of a river." Notes of this fragrance last longer with experiencers, which form a subtle hint haunted with them. The design translated the experience into an immersive journey with natural and woody notes. Moreover, the package delivers a sustainable design concept. The main purpose of this project is to represent the experience of forest wandering.
Project Duration: The project started in 2020 and finished in 2021.
Operation Flow: Méandre is a natural perfume brand. The fragrance profile is based on the natural, woody notes to give users an experience and feeling that they are walking in the forest, thus only natural scents were selected as the ingredients.
Patents: Jiawei Wu
Team Members: Jiawei Wu
Image Credits: Design:Jiawei Wu
Photo Credits: Sonia Szostak