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Zhong Yuan No. 1 Maojian Tea by Tiger Pan Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Packaging Design
Tiger Pan of Tigerpan Design Lab. acknowledged 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/ Zhong Yuan No. 1 Maojian Tea by Tiger Pan of Tigerpan Design Lab., designed for Xinyang Wenxin Tea Co., Ltd, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. 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 evaluated 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.
More About Zhong Yuan No. 1 Maojian Tea
Zhong Yuan No. 1 is a packaging design for Maojian tea, a traditional Chinese tea grown in terraced fields. Because the flavor of the tea is light and mild, the package is kept subtle and refined. The tea can is made of tinplate with embossing and gold stamping, and matte and varnish finishes are combined. The capped shape of the can recalls a tea picker wearing a hat. The outer box is made of customized paper and is closed by a shaped belt inspired by the window frames of old tea farmer houses. Real tea leaves decorate the belt.
About Tiger Pan
Tiger Pan, renowned designer and founder of Tiger Pan Design Lab, currently serves as the Jury President for D&AD 2024 in Packaging Design. He is also a contracted artist for the United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA), a collaborative artist with the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), a partner artist with the Liechtenstein Postal Service, and a co-branded artist with BVLGARI. Additionally, he holds the role of Vice Chairman of the Shenzhen Illustration Association and serves as a guest professor at 18 prestigious design academies across China. Over the past 28 years, Tiger Pan has been deeply engaged in product and packaging design research and practice.
Award Record
This recognition makes Tiger Pan of Tigerpan Design Lab. a winner of 46 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2017 - 2018 and the 2022 - 2023 editions 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/145467
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/145467
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!145467
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/187530
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.behance.net/tigerpan
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Zhong Yuan No. 1 Maojian Tea
- Function
- Maojian Tea
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Dim Gray and Dark Khaki
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Xinyang Wenxin Tea Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Tiger Pan
- Country
- China
- Brand
- Tigerpan Design Lab.
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #145467
Credits
- Team
- Longfei Xiao, Zhangkun Xie, Miaorong Lu and Hua You
- Image Credits
- Tiger Pan
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Chinese traditional aesthetic of shaping a tea can. The bottle is shaped into an abstraction of capped tea-picker in a geometric way. All leaves are picked and cooked by their hands so the tea comes with their body's warmth or temperature. The outer box is locked by a shaped original mountain, telling consumers that tea is the best and of purity.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration comes from the tea and its growing land, which is natural and an eyeful of green. Another factor inspiring the team is the traditional ancient budding aesthetics.With the hat like cap, the can is just like a tea picking farmer.Inspired by the window frame pattern from the ancient houses of tea farmers, the sealing belt is designed into a traditional frame with the brands name shown, which is decorated with the actual leaves of the tea.
- Research
- As the tea grows in terraced fields and its flavor is lighter and milder than usual tea, the package is made into a more implicative and sophisticated one.
- Challenge
- Inspired by the window frame pattern from the ancient houses of tea farmers, the sealing belt is designed into a traditional frame with the brand's name shown, which is decorated with the actual leaves of the tea. The exquisite techniques also helps to bring a sense of quality of the tea.
- Realization and Technology
- The tea can is made of tinplate, embossed and gold-stamped. The matte and varnish touch is combined and a sense of delicacy is given out. The outer box is made of customized paper and it comes with the idea of less is more. The belt, however, is made with exquisite embossment and stamping of the major icon, Central Land No.1. A simple box with a fine belt, is mixed to lower the psychological pressure on buyers when consuming the product. Yet, it still is a high-end but well-finished product.
- Operation and Interaction
- How to save consumer's effort to look for an ideal product is the key challenge of this case. A distinctive symbol, a bright color, an explicit layout of info and a unitive serial system of package will help Wellmind to solve the problem, where consumers are able to recognize and pick up the products from far away.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project lasts 4 month, designed in Shenzhen
- Specifications
- Jar size: 83mm x 123mm Box size: 300mm x 130mm x 155mm
- Keywords
- tea, maojian tea, Chinese tea, Temple of Heaven, Tiger Pan
