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Gold Packaging · 2020

Codice Wine Bottle

by Estudio Maba

  • Golden A' Design Award 2020 in Packaging
  • CLIENT: Dominio de Eguren, Viñedos y Bodegas Sierra Cantabria
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 34,226
  • Verification code 6D2E0C47F5 · Verify this award
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About Codice Wine Bottle

Codice is a packaging design for a wine bottle, inspired by medieval codices. Codices were handwritten books made before the invention of the printing press, in which the capital letters became works of art. The label is produced on paper with reliefs and stamping and is applied to a Bordeaux bottle. A sheet of sealed vegetal paper wraps the bottle and carries illustrations of the symbols of the winery. The paper is closed with sealing wax at the top, so the content is revealed only when the wrapper is opened.

About the Golden A' Design Award

Codice Wine Bottle is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Codice Wine Bottle is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Codice Wine Bottle creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Unique Properties
The Codex design is a timeless piece, which captures the meaning of the name loaded with content. The Codices were manuscripts in books prior to the invention of the printing press, in which the capitular letters became works of art in themselves.
Dimensions & Packaging
Cover paper 350 x 350 mm
Label 140 x 120 mm
Tags
wine, design, illustration
Production Technology
Bordeaux bottle and label in reliefs and stamping. Sealed vegetal paper.
Design Challenge
A search of the ancient codex books to define the style and understand the hierarchies of the elements has been necessary to carry out the illustrations.
Research
A search in the ancient code books to define the style and understand the hierarchies of the elements has been necessary to carry out the illustrations.
Inspiration
Working a classic universe in a cleaner and renewed way we get a timeless, dedicated piece, full of expressiveness and history. The graphics that are transferred to the paper tell the story of the symbols of the winery.
Project Duration
From June 2019 to January 2020
Operation Flow
A page that looks like it's ripped from an old code filled with symbols from the cellar, surrounds the bottle. The user must fix the paper to discover its content, since it is sealed with sealing wax on top.
Patents
Viñedos y Bodegas Sierra Cantabria
Image Credits
Estudio Maba

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