Press Release
Plant Selected Beverage by Blackandgold Shanghai Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Packaging Design
Blackandgold Shanghai honored for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category for Plant Selected Beverage by Blackandgold Shanghai, designed for Yili Group. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Plant Selected Beverage
Plant Selected is a packaging design for a range of plant-based drinks. The container is a PET bottle covered with matte film, measuring 60 mm in width, 60 mm in depth and 177 mm in height. Green is used for the soya drink and blue for the oat drink. The product name is set in a large graffiti-style English font, and gold soya beans and oats are integrated into the letters. A fully colored background forms a strong color block on the shelf. Product benefits are placed at the bottom to inform consumers.
About Blackandgold Shanghai
Based in Paris, Shanghai and New York, we have been working for 30 years to develop strong brands, with high standards and passion. But also with a certain amount of hindsight and humility. With us, jargon is prohibited. Certainties too. It is this constantly renewed curiosity, this duty of candor and this desire to understand that drives the daily life of the agency, from our approach to trends to that of your briefs. In China, we work with big international and local clients.
Award Record
With this recognition, Blackandgold Shanghai is a winner of 7 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2021 - 2022 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to packaging designers, graphic designers, branding agencies and product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include bottles, boxes, cans, pouches, tubes and cartons. Awarded packaging designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/packaging
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/134253
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/134253
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!134253
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/310277
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Plant Selected Beverage
- Function
- Beverage
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Yellow Green, Light Sky Blue, Green Yellow, Cornflower Blue and Steel Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Yili Group
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Blackandgold Shanghai
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #134253
Credits
- Team
- Yang LI, Feiteng WAN, Lei ZHANG, Xincheng ZHUANG and Jianhui CHEN
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Plant-based milk alternative is a trendy category in China. Used to be a soy milk expert, Plant Selected decides to fulfill its portfolio by add more plant based products. To follow the global vegan trend, Plant Selected should have a new look to differentiate from local plant milk brands offering single plant-based products. Therefore, an English visual hammer is created to enhance its international feel.
- Inspiration
- The overall design should always be on trend. To stand out on shelf, packaging should have impactful color. Therefore we take green and blue for each product, which are also relevant to soya and oat respectively. As a global trendy category, it is better to add international feel to products. Thus, we create a visual hammer by using graffiti-style English font. The gold soya and oat within the product name reinforce the vitality of vegan nutrition. The product benefits are integrated and presented at the bottom to ensure consumers its quality.
- Research
- To occupy the new category, we take a look at the international market where plant milk category is quite mature. We find out many international plant milk brands start communicating a trendy lifestyle instead of flavor on packaging. Thus we uses graffiti-style font to add casual touch to product. A large product name in English leverages the premium and exotic feel. The fully colored background creates a powerful color block on shelf and the gold soya and oat become a catchy point on packaging which can draw consumers' attention.
- Challenge
- We need to find a way to differentiate Plant Selected from traditional plant-based brands. To overcome this challenge, we bring the international and vital feel to products. We create a visual hammer for the product by combining product name and grins. The large English word can stand out among other plant-based drinks on shelf. Its fully colored background can also attribute to the shelf impact.
- Realization and Technology
- PET bottle covered with Matte film
- Operation and Interaction
- Plant drink is popular in China, but most of the brands only provide single plant-based product such as soya only or almond only. To jump out of the category, Plant Selected starts to offer plant-based products covering more plant bases. To express the exotic feeling, we treat product name into graffiti-style font and integrate soya and oat into it. Besides, the strokes around leverage the vitality. A fully colored background creates impactful color block on shelf. Eac product's RTBs are clearly presented at the bottom to ensure consumers the product is good.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in September, 2020 and the product is launched in March, 2021
- Specifications
- Width 60 mm x Depth 60 mm x Height 177 mm
- Keywords
- Packaging, plant-based Beverage, plant milk, China
