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Silver A' Design Award in Packaging Design Goes to Challenger Alcoholic Beverage Packaging by Yao Wu
Yao Wu recognized for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Challenger Alcoholic Beverage Packaging by Yao Wu, designed for Beijing Wuyao Cultural and Creative Co. Ltd., has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 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 Challenger Alcoholic Beverage Packaging
Challenger is a packaging design for a pair of spirits bottles. The design draws on two classic Chinese mythological stories, Nezha in the Dragon Palace and Wukong in the Heavenly Palace, and conveys a spirit of daring to challenge. The bottles are orange and blue and carry themed illustrations. The box is dark blue with gold rims, and elements representing Wukong and Nezha are printed on the front with embossing and gold stamping. The box opens as a double door at an oblique angle of 60 degrees and then stands upright on a flat surface.
About Yao Wu
I'm Wu Yao，In 2019, Beijing Satellite TV invited the designer of the second season of the National Palace Museum, the official cultural and creative designer of Wudang Mountain, the designer recommended by Zhan Ku, the annual cooperative designer of shede liquor industry, and the special designer of the culture and Tourism Bureau of Xi'an Qujiang Management Committee.
Award Record
With this recognition, Yao Wu is a winner of 9 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2022 - 2023 and the 2023 - 2024 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/155598
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/155598
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!155598
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/325136
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://bit.ly/49XNAjr
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Challenger Alcoholic Beverage Packaging
- Function
- Alcoholic Beverage Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Slate Blue, Firebrick, Light Slate Gray, Dark Orange and Rosy Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Beijing Wuyao Cultural and Creative Co. Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yao Wu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #155598
Credits
- Team
- Original designer：Wu Yao, Zhang yuchen, Xie boxing, Zheng ziyang, Shi huafeng, Tan zhen and Liao hao
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is a spirits packaging design which uses two classic mythological stories Wukong and Nezha. The color of the illustrated bottle on the bottle orange and blue and the packaging box is dark blue with gold rims The front of the packaging box is printed with elements representing Wukong and Nezha and the craftsmanship is embossed with gold stamping.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration comes from the classic Chinese mythological stories of Nezha causing havoc in the Dragon Palace and Wukong causing havoc in the Heavenly Palace . The spirit of daring to challenge conveyed by it coincides with the concept of Shede brand this time. Drawing two stories into illustrations and printing them on the bottle not only looks beautiful but also gives deeper meaning to the bottle, and better reflects the charm of mythological stories.
- Research
- This is a double bottle spirits packaging design based on the Chinese mythological stories. The protagonists of the two stories have a spirit of courage to challenge and this spirit coincides with Shede spirits industry myth series . The bottle color of this design is orange and blue and the process adopts the way of gold stamping . This packaging box is opened in a different way . Packaging box is also made of dark blue with gold trim and the gilded Shed logo is printed on elements with two classic mythological stories making the design more integrated while reflecting the quality of Shede spirits industry over the years
- Challenge
- The main challenge of this design is how to present these two classic mythological stories in a unique form on the bottle body and how to choose the material and craftsmanship of the external packaging box The painting form should fit the product and the craftsmanship selection should not be too complex but also reflect delicacy
- Realization and Technology
- The main color of the bottle is orange and blue, and the bottle has themed illustrations printed on it. The theme color of the packaging box is dark blue, with embossed hot stamping technology on the edges, elemental symbols representing Wukong and Nezha printed on the front, and embossing technology to show gold and red decorative patterns. The packaging box adopts a double-door box opening method. The inside of the packaging box is printed with dark blue dark patterns corresponding to the theme, and Chinese poems are printed in hot stamping.
- Operation and Interaction
- The packaging box adopts a double-door opening method. Different from the traditional forward opening angle, it adopts an oblique 60-degree opening method. After the packaging box is opened, it can stand upright on a flat surface.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project began in May 2022 in Beijing and was completed in July 2022.
- Specifications
- Packaging box 30cm*12cm*22cm.
- Keywords
- Challenger, Package design, Chinese Mythology, Chinese spirits
