Press Release
Wei Sun Is Honored with the A' Design Award for Xianyan Packaging in Packaging Design
Wei Sun honored for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category for Xianyan Packaging by Wei Sun, designed for DOTONE Brand Design. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 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.
What the A' Design Award Means
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Xianyan Packaging
This is a bird's nest product in a high-end gift box.The packaging design concept combines swiftlet and Chinese elements. The visual highlights are concentrated, and the surrounding areas are given corresponding blank treatment. Through the deconstruction and fusion of simple, natural and abstract elements, the overall picture presents an oriental classical aesthetic conception with a sense of modern design art.
About Wei Sun
Wei Sun is a brand designer from China. He uses design to provide customers with new perspectives and consumers with new values. He has cooperated with some potential brands and won some professional awards, which has won him word of mouth and reputation. He believes that the future is bright. Choosing design is not just a job for him, but a way of thinking, values and even a way of life. He advocates beauty, loves life, is sensitive and insightful; making good designs is his lifelong pursuit. He believes that the process of in-depth design is a self-dissolution and self-reconstruction. Every time I come into contact with a new design, it is an unknown cognitive world.
Award Record
This recognition makes Wei Sun a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2022 - 2023 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/142671
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/142671
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!142671
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/173962
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Xianyan Packaging
- Function
- Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Teal, Slate Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Cadet Blue and Medium Turquoise
- Images
- 5
- Client
- DOTONE Brand Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wei Sun
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #142671
Credits
- Image Credits
- #5 Designer,Wei Sun,2021 3D modeling renderer,Mingran Wu,2021 3D modeling renderer,Jiaying Zheng，2021
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is a bird's nest product in a high-end gift box. The design properly reflects the user's consumption experience of gift-giving, so that users are pleasantly surprised when they get the product. The first layer is designed with the outline of the swallow and hollowed out, and the swallow formed by the second layer of color blocks integrates the elements of the origin and forms a unique texture. The two together form a virtual and real design effect, which is unique among similar projects.
- Inspiration
- The packaging product is a kind of supplement that China has respected since ancient times. In order to reflect the characteristics of the product, the design concept combines swiftlet and Chinese elements. The main pattern is concentrated, and the surrounding areas are given corresponding blank treatment; The elements are deconstructed and integrated, and the overall picture presents an oriental classical aesthetic artistic conception with a sense of modern design art.
- Research
- Carry out certain research and analysis on similar packaging in the market, hoping to break through the traditional structure, and the structure is based on the use experience of the target group, and the packaging visually gives the target group the possibility and freshness of association.
- Challenge
- In order to ensure the integrity of the picture, the hollow edge of the first layer of the envelope needs to be precisely aligned with the edge of the inner box pattern of the second layer, and at the same time does not affect the bronzing part on the envelope, debug according to the printing sample, and finally achieve a perfect state.
- Realization and Technology
- The packaging material is special paper, which is environmentally friendly and reusable. Hollowing, bronzing process and two-layer structure processing of packaging are more creative and quality in visual experience, and the logo is interpreted with three-dimensional metal plate as the medium.
- Operation and Interaction
- The packaging adopts a pull-out opening method; the first layer of packaging is an envelope design with an empty bottom, while the second layer of packaging is an inner box, which is equipped with a handle rope to facilitate the extraction of the inner box from the bottom of the envelope. The opening method of the inner box is a flip type.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Shenzhen in April 2021 and completed in Shenzhen in April 2022.
- Specifications
- Envelope size: width 28cm x depth 28cm x height 8cm Inner box size: width 27.4cm x depth 28cm x height 7.4cm
- Keywords
- Bird's nest packaging design, Oriental aesthetics, High-end gift box, Hollow design, Healthy food
