Platinum Packaging · 2022
Sakura Shimizu Packaging
- Platinum A' Design Award 2022 in Packaging
- CLIENT: Arica Design Inc
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 385,127
- Verification code 511F4C9C41 · Verify this award
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About Sakura Shimizu Packaging
This package was created as a branding project for a floral artist. All of the brand's tools were created in a uniform gray color, which shows the true colors of the flowers. The packaging is designed in a simple achromatic color so as not to detract from the quality of the client artist's work. The symbol is based on the typography of a Japanese character meaning "flower", and all brand tools are created around this symbol. By using this "kanji" symbol, the client communicated to consumers its position as a Japanese floral artist.
About the Platinum A' Design Award
Sakura Shimizu Packaging is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Sakura Shimizu Packaging exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. Sakura Shimizu Packaging is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.
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- Unique Properties
- This package was created as part of a branding project for a floral artist. In order to highlight the color and beauty of the flowers themselves, all of the brand's tools were kept in gray. This gray is a brand color that gives consumers an image of dignity and quality, but does not detract from the flowers themselves.
The achromatic flower boxes and paper bags allow the vivid colors of the flowers to stand out. I designed the product to best showcase the artist's work. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Paper bag (large), Width 275mm x Depth 265mm x Height 215mm
Paper bag (small), Width 205mm x Depth 195mm x Height 215mm
Box (large),Width 250mm x Depth 250mm x Height 110mm
Box (small), Width 180mm x Depth 180mm x Height 110mm
Box (long), Width 645mm x Depth 120mm x Height 104mm
Herbarium Gifts, Width 69mm x Depth 69mm x Height 211mm - Tags
- Flower artist, florist, branding, floral gifts, floral packaging
- Production Technology
- In order to directly express Sakura Shimizu's sincere attitude toward flowers, we designed a symbol using the typography of the Chinese character for "花” This character means flower. We kept the shape simple so as not to interfere with the floral art, which is the star of the show, and we cut down on the elements until they were just barely legible.
- Design Challenge
- We created all kinds of brand tools such as store cards, postcards, wrapping paper, etc., using the typography of Japanese characters as the brand symbol. This kanji symbol impressed consumers with Sakua Shimizu's status as a Japanese floral artist. By using the kanji symbol, Sakua Shimizu succeeded in conveying an imposing brand image as one of Japan's leading flower artists.
- Research
- The logos of Japanese floral artists and florists are very often made with flowers and plants as motifs and in English letters. Many of them are also designed using the bright colors of the flowers as the motif. In order to differentiate ourselves from these marks, we dared to use the typography of Japanese letters as a symbol to create a straightforward and graceful design as a Japanese artist.
- Inspiration
- This package was created as part of a branding project for a floral artist. In order to accentuate the color and beauty of the flowers themselves, we created all of the brand's tools in a uniform gray color. This gray is a brand color that gives consumers an image of dignity and quality, but does not detract from the flowers themselves.
The achromatic flower boxes and paper bags allow the vivid colors of the flowers to stand out. I designed the product to best showcase the artist's work. - Project Duration
- It has been in use since June 2018 in Sapporo, Japan.
- Operation Flow
- The flower box is sleeved so that it can be taken out and displayed as it is. It is designed to harmonize with the purchaser's own home decor. The entire jar of the herbarium gift is covered with gray paper so that the inside cannot be seen. The herbarium gift is designed so that when the recipient opens the wrapping, he or she will be impressed by the vivid colors of the flowers.