Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Packaging Design Goes to Mahjong Lucky Coffee Packaging by Wenduan Su
Wenduan Su recognized for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 21, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Mahjong Lucky Coffee Packaging by Wenduan Su, designed for Shenzhen Technology Unversity, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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 Mahjong Lucky Coffee Packaging
Mahjong Lucky Coffee is a coffee packaging design inspired by mahjong, a traditional Chinese game. Each bag holds one month of coffee, which is equal to two hands of mahjong tiles. One hand is arranged as a winning hand. The second hand is completed by the buyer, because every portion of coffee is drawn like a tile and the pattern stays unknown until the portion is opened. Bold orange and red colors and youthful lettering address young consumers. Two flavors are offered. The packaging turns a daily habit into a game.
Award Record
This recognition makes Wenduan Su a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/162841
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/162841
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!162841
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/349759
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Mahjong Lucky Coffee Packaging
- Function
- Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Tomato, Gainsboro, Light Gray, Chocolate and Linen
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Shenzhen Technology Unversity
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wenduan Su
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #162841
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- draws inspiration from the Chinese quintessence of Mahjong. The combination of Mahjong and coffee is full of gamification, making the coffee packaging more interesting. Mahjong is becoming more and more popular among young people, so the font design of Mahjong is more youthful, and the color is boldly matched, orange-red - food color. A bag of coffee is exactly one month's supply, which is two hands of cards. One hand of cards is designed to be a good hand in the hope of bringing good luck to the buyer, and the other hand needs to be completed by the buyer through the interactive action of drinking coffee every time, which has the attributes of a blind box.
- Inspiration
- Drawing inspiration from the Chinese quintessence of Mahjong, the combination of Mahjong and coffee, full of gamification, makes coffee more interesting
- Research
- Because mahjong is fun and interesting. In China, mahjong culture is becoming more and more popular among young people. Mahjong culture appears in many aspects of life, and mahjong games are gradually being recognized and loved by people from all over the world. We want to design something for the mahjong culture that everyone loves.
- Challenge
- Mahjong and coffee are combined, and the interactive design of the actions is the same, drawing coffee is the same as drawing a mahjong tile
- Realization and Technology
- Mold Injection，Origami
- Operation and Interaction
- Users drink a cup of coffee every day and draw a portion of coffee, which is very similar to drawing cards in a mahjong game. Each card is full of unknowns. After drinking the coffee, different card patterns can be arranged to win the game, just like winning a mahjong game. And mahjong coffee has two flavors to choose from.
- Project Duration and Location
- Design will start in Shenzhen in December 2023 and will be exhibited in the university exhibition hall
- Specifications
- The test model was completed using 3D printing and origami techniques.
- Keywords
- Coffee packaging, mahjong culture，gamification design,Chinese traditional culture
