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Xianfeng Wu Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Mountain Tea Tea Packaging in Packaging Design

Xianfeng Wu acknowledged for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Mountain Tea Tea Packaging by Xianfeng Wu has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Silver A' Design Award Explained

The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

About Mountain Tea Tea Packaging

Mountain Tea is a packaging design for pressed tea cakes. Each tea cake is wrapped like a candy, which makes the tea easier to use and gives a modern look. The wrapping uses environmentally friendly handmade paper, following an older packaging form in a new way. The design holds four independent packages that can be combined into one complete picture on the shelf. The illustration shows tea leaves, tea trees and rare animals of Xishuangbanna in Yunnan, China, where the tea is grown. The package measures 280 by 205 by 70 millimeters.

Award Record

With this recognition, Xianfeng Wu is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Packaging Design Award

The A' Packaging Design Award is an international packaging competition that recognizes outstanding packaging designs by talented packaging designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to packaging designers, graphic designers, branding agencies and product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include bottles, boxes, cans, pouches, tubes and cartons. The awarded packaging designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/packaging

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Mountain Tea Tea Packaging
Function
Tea Packaging
Category
Packaging Design
Discipline
Communication Design
Industry
Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
Colors
White Smoke, Silver, Dark Gray, Light Gray and White
Images
5

The Recognition

Laureate
Xianfeng Wu
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2020 - 2021
Design ID
#123305

Credits

Team
Wu Xianfeng

Design Details

Unique Properties
Different from traditional Chinese tea packaging, tea cake is wrapped like candy, which is more convenient in use and fashionable in vision.
Inspiration
This tea is produced in Xishuangbanna, an ethnic minority region in Yunan Province of China. Xishuangbanna is Chinese only tropical rain forest nature reserve, with favorable natural ecological preservation and various rare animals and plants. Xishuangbanna is renowned for tea both in China and abroad. Looking at the tea leaf on the external packing, people feel a moving original scene, where local representative rare animals are in thearborescens tree, vivid and natural.
Research
In the process of product creative design, not only the consumers of the product should be considered, but also the experience of customers and the effect of the product on the shelf. Reasonable expression of material, convenient use of products, environmental protection and recycling can promote the sales of products.
Challenge
In the process of product proofing and production, there are also many obstacles, because some of them are completed by hand, and there are some difficulties in the assembly process. Through close communication with the manufacturer in the later stage, the final product can be perfectly presented, and the market feedback is good.
Realization and Technology
Tea cake is wrapped with environmental protection hand-made paper, and then superimposed together, which is the inheritance of the ancient packaging form and an innovation.
Operation and Interaction
Four independent packaging, can be combined into a complete picture, product shelf display effect is outstanding, also reflects the growth of this tea regional cultural background.
Project Duration and Location
The project was created in February 2019, completed in Shenzhen in January 2020, and exhibited in Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center in December 2020
Keywords
Tea packaging, tea cakes, original, environmentally friendly, tea tree

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