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Wine Africa Limited Edition by Oksana Kashkovskaya Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Packaging Design
Oksana Kashkovskaya acknowledged for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Wine Africa Limited Edition by Oksana Kashkovskaya, designed for OK DEsign, 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 2019 - 2020 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 assessed 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.
About Wine Africa Limited Edition
Wine Africa is a packaging design for a set of four wines, presented in red, blue, orange and yellow. Each box is made of medium thickness cardboard with natural fibers and no lacquer coating. Two apertures on opposite sides of every box let light pass through the bottle, so the colour of the wine can be seen without close lighting. The bottles have a matt glass surface with glossy patterns of lines and spots taken from African animals. Eight animals appear across the four boxes, recalling the landscapes and fauna of Africa.
About Oksana Kashkovskaya
Kashkovskaya Oksana have been working in design area for about five years, she really in love this subject and have always been interested in design. Oksana very creative person and began working as a professional photographer. Once she didn’t completed her studies only in photography. She began attending various training courses including graphic programs, 3D programs. Her current active research areas include computer graphic, package design, graphic design, 3D modeling,3D visualization, animation(all areas),visual effects, video, composing, photography, post-production, television art, contemporary art, interior design, history of Architecture.
Award Record
With this recognition, Oksana Kashkovskaya is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2019 - 2020 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/96855
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/96855
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!96855
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/170697
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/2BmZpmm
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Wine Africa Limited Edition
- Function
- Limited Edition
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Light Slate Gray, Dark Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- OK DEsign
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Oksana Kashkovskaya
- Country
- Russian Federation
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #96855
Credits
- Team
- Kashkovskaya Oksana
- Image Credits
- Kashkovskaya Oksana 2020
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This packaging has four different colours type of the wine as red, blue, orange and yellow. Each box has double count from each side and due to this the bright colours of wine possible to see even without close light around. The lines and spots on each bottle has own drawing that is complements full composition of the design and gives the understanding of each exact animal depicted. Thus, appear associations of the landscapes and fauna of Africa.
- Inspiration
- The main inspiration for creating the packaging was the natura of the African continent. The specific shapes of the pattern of animals leather inspired to use them as main graphic elements at the package and on the bottles. The natural colours of the fauna had focus to reflected on the bottles. The four landscapes of Africa had the own display on the design via animals that dwell there.
- Research
- This packaging has two apertures from both sides of boxes. It gives light complitely go through inside of bottle and show colours of each wine that has own type as red, blue, orange, yellow. For each class of package was created own graphic elements depens on the land of African continent. Thus, eight animals possible to see and only two different animals on one box. Package design has Zebra and giraffe, leopard and cheetah, monkeys-red colobus and colobus, chameleon-Namaqua and Green Parson.
- Challenge
- The main goal for this design was to create the interaction beetween the graphic elements of two different types of animals as part of a whole design. A lot of sketches was created during working process on this packaging. The colours of wine had to be more but to definitive result was choosen only four. Aslo for each bottle was created different pattern that shows only lines and spots characteristic to exact type of animals.
- Realization and Technology
- The four packaging created from midle thickness cardboard. The paper has natural fibers without additional lacquer shine covering, thus this material from ecology friendly technology. The bottles has the mat glass surface with patterns that coat each bottle with own design. The patterns has the glossy coating. The top of each bottle has the black frosted membrane that save the wine till it will be open.
- Operation and Interaction
- For to enjoy the wine just need to open cardboard packaging from the top and and take out the favorite of four types of wines.
- Project Duration and Location
- Started in November 2019 was finished in February 2020
- Specifications
- size of box: H 33O mm; W 80.5 mm size of bottle : H 290 mm; W 80 mm
- Keywords
- package, africa, wine, design, red, blue, orange, yellow, wild
