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Gold Packaging · 2025

Moutai Shengyue Flying Fairy Packaging

by Ying Song Brand Design Shenzhen Co, Ltd

Golden A' Design Award 2025 in Packaging
CLIENT: Kweichow Moutai Co.,Ltd.
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About Moutai Shengyue Flying Fairy Packaging

Moutai Shengyue Flying Fairy is a packaging design for a Chinese baijiu liquor. The design draws on the Flying Fairy figures painted in the Dunhuang murals, in particular the music god in Cave 401 of the Mogao Grottoes, shown holding a sheng instrument with a graceful posture. The main color is crimson yarn, a traditional Chinese color, and the metal bottle cap pattern is made with a traditional enamel technique. The box opens from the right side and holds a two layered cloud pattern structure inside. The set measures 140 by 105 by 280 millimeters and uses paper, ceramics and metal.

About the Golden A' Design Award

Moutai Shengyue Flying Fairy Packaging 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. Moutai Shengyue Flying Fairy Packaging 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. Moutai Shengyue Flying Fairy Packaging creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Unique Properties: The brand logo is from Flying Fairy pattern in the Dunhuang murals, and the design also adopts the image of music god in Cave 401 of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. This Flying Fairy holds the sheng with hands, with a graceful posture and a sense of agility. The bottle cap pattern also comes from the same cave, use traditional enamel technique. The main color Crimson yarn, is also a traditional Chinese color. The design depicts the elegant, luxurious and ethereal posture of the Sui Dynasty.
Dimensions & Packaging: A box and a bottle / 140 mm*105 mm*280 mm / Paper, ceramics, metals/
Tags: Chinese Baijiu packaging, packaging design, Flying Fairy, Dunhuang frescoes, Enamel
Production Technology: We have referred to a large number of Dunhuang murals as the basis for design elements, striving to perfectly showcase the beauty of the Flying Fairy in Dunhuang murals in packaging design. We have done a lot of verification in terms of shape, color, and element details. Finally, we have presented the beauty of Dunhuang murals in this product packaging.
Design Challenge: How to perfectly present the Flying Fairy element in Dunhuang murals on packaging, and how to visually present the Flying Fairy flying out of Dunhuang murals. It is the hardest to express.
Research: Type of Research: Baijiu packaging, Research Objectives : promote project sales, Methodology: design a new project, data collection: start from customers' purchase preferences, Tools Used: design software, effect: the project is successfully launched, and sales are very good.
Inspiration: The idea from the Flying Fairy image in Dunhuang murals. There is a music god in Cave 401 of Mogao Grottoes, with a beautiful posture and flowing ribbons, perfectly matching the brand image. The pattern on the bottle cap also comes from the same cave. And we also adopted the traditional mural style hand drawn style in the illustrations of this design.
The 2 layered cloud pattern structure inside the box want to give consumers a visual impact of the Flying Fairy flying out of Dunhuang murals.
Project Duration: The project started in Shenzhen in October 2023, was completed in December 2024, and was launched for sale in China on January 5, 2025.
Operation Flow: The box is opened from the right side, and the bottle is opened from the top metal cap
Image Credits: Image #1: Creator Yingsong Chen, 2024
Image #2: Creator Yingsong Chen, 2024
Image #3: Creator Yingsong Chen, 2024
Image #4: Creator Yingsong Chen, 2024
Image #5: Creator Yingsong Chen, 2024