China Resources Snow Breweries Ltd. Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Qinshihuang Cpa Packaging in Packaging Design

The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes China Resources Snow Breweries Ltd. for packaging design

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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Qinshihuang Cpa Packaging by China Resources Snow Breweries Ltd., designed for China Resources Snow Breweries, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Bronze A' Design Award Explained

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.

Regarding Qinshihuang Cpa Packaging

Qinshihuang CPA is a packaging design for a craft beer in the China Pale Ale category. The bottle shape and bottle neck use typical elements of the Qin dynasty, and the form recalls a jade goblet with cloud patterns from the Qin and Han periods. A flag around the bottle neck marks the product as a pioneer of the China Pale Ale style. A central seal script character, the unified font of the Qin dynasty, gives a traditional and classical look. The design is made as a 315 ml glass bottle and a 550 ml aluminium can.

About China Resources Snow Breweries Ltd.

Founded in 1993, China Resources Snow Breweries (China) Co., Ltd (CR Snow Breweries) is a nationwide professional beer company that brews and sells beer. Headquartered in Beijing, China, the company has a high-end brand matrix of "Chinese local brands + international brands ". From 2006 to 2014, the total sales volume of CR Snow Beer ranked the leading position in China's beer market for nine consecutive years. In 2013, the sales volume of Snow Beer single brand reached 10.62 million liters. In 2013, the total sales volume of China Resources Snow Beer reached 11.72 million liters. Become the first "double 10 million tons" enterprise in China's beer industry.

Award Record

China Resources Snow Breweries Ltd. is a winner of 6 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2021 - 2022 to 2022 - 2023 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/144566
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/144566
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!144566
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/327890

Media Contact

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+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Qinshihuang Cpa Packaging
Function: Packaging
Category: Packaging Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
Colors: Rosy Brown, Gray, Dark Olive Green, Black and Burly Wood
Images: 5
Client: China Resources Snow Breweries

The Recognition

Laureate: China Resources Snow Breweries Ltd.
Country: China
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2022 - 2023
Design ID: #144566

Credits

Team: Dong Yan, Weixi Zhou, Yan Yang and Jialiang Mao

Design Details

Unique Properties: The packaging design aims to interpret the pale ale full of Chinese characteristics. To highlight its cultural characteristics, the bottle shape and bottle neck are designed with typical elements in Qin dynasty. The flag round the bottle neck indicates that it pioneers the China Pale Ale category in the industry. The central seal character as the unified font in Qin dynasty leads to a traditional, classical style. Qinshihuang Cpa guides the industry towards the new trend of China pale ale.
Inspiration: Ipa, namely India Pale Ale, is the most popular category of craft beer globally. Based on that, the design team conceived the concept of Cpa and designed this product, to provide craft beer lovers with a new option. As a pioneer in China Pale Ale, this craft beer is named after Qinshihuang, which aims to highlight its innovation in craft beer and to give a strong sense of cultural identity and confidence.
Research: IPA features top fermentation, highalcoholconcentration and strongsmellofhops, most of which adopts malt, hops and yeast from Britain as materials. Considering that, this CPA is brewed with basic materials full of Chinese characteristics, namely those Chinese crops widely planted in Qin Dynasty, so as to create a brand-new China Pale Ale style.
Challenge: The challenge faced by us is that how to highlight the distinctiveness and superiority of the product through the packaging design. To achieve that, we integrate multiple elements of Qin Dynasty into a bottle of the modern style under the reinterpretation of Qinshihuang, thereby enabling users to experience the flavor and culture of China.
Realization and Technology: aluminium can, glass bottle
Operation and Interaction: The bottle of Qinshihuang CPA shapes like jade goblet with cloud design in Qin and Han Dynasty, suggesting the product positioning and realizing a striking visual effect. Open the bottle cap to drink.
Project Duration and Location: This product was designed and developed in February, 2020, in Beijing, and will be launched in January, 2023, in China.
Specifications: 315 ml bottle: 200 x 62 mm 550 ml can: 159.5 x 66 mm
Keywords: CPA, Chinese traditional culture, packaging of beer, craft beer, elements of Qin Dynasty