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Ocean Blue Alcoholic Beverage Packaging by Jingzhang Xiao and Dongyan Ruan Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Packaging Design
Jingzhang Xiao and Dongyan Ruan 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/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category for Ocean Blue Alcoholic Beverage Packaging by Jingzhang Xiao and Dongyan Ruan, designed for Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery Co., Ltd. The recognition forms part of the 2022 - 2023 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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 Ocean Blue Alcoholic Beverage Packaging
Ocean Blue is a packaging design for a baijiu spirit. The bottle follows the proportions of the Fibonacci spiral, giving a balanced and dynamic form that is easy to hold and open. The upper part is finished with golden sparks that recall beach sand, while the lower part is coloured in sea blue. Copper plate lithography, cat-eye making and embossing are used to improve the surface texture. The outer box is made of grey board paper with a white board interior, a foam pad and a woven blister. A coded system links each bottle, box and case to help protect the product from counterfeiting.
Award Record
This recognition makes Jingzhang Xiao and Dongyan Ruan a winner of 31 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2019 - 2020 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/142370
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/142370
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!142370
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/249896
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://item.jd.com/10055826101667.html
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Ocean Blue Alcoholic Beverage Packaging
- Function
- Alcoholic Beverage Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Dark Salmon, Burly Wood, Sienna, Dark Slate Blue and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jingzhang Xiao and Dongyan Ruan
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #142370
Credits
- Team
- Creative Director：Liandong Zhang；, Creative Director：Huashuang Liu；, Creative Director：Zhaoxin Zhu；, Designer：Jingzhang Xiao；, Designer：Ru Li； and Designer：Aizong Lin
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The bottle is so exquisite that the liquor inside feels like a vast ocean. The bottle body remains in the golden ratio shape of waves. The shape of the bottle is flexible and smooth, following the principles of rational aesthetics. The golden rule of "Fibonacci spiral" is used to modify the ratio of the wine bottle to create a more balanced, elegant and dynamic super golden ratio of "point, line and surface", which is convenient for users to hold and open, and meets the ergonomics design.The industry's first copper plate lithography in designing baijiu bottles. Other techniques like cat-eye making and embossing are also adopted in the design to give the bottle a better texture.
- Inspiration
- The elements of sea and beach are highlighted in the design of the bottle. The upper part is painted with golden sparks, an association with beach sand. The sparks symbolize ideals. The lower part is colored in sea blue. It symbolizes fights for hope. The overall design demonstrates a "youth, vigor, optimism and ambition" image, demonstrating the consistency of quality and brand appeal.
- Research
- In-depth market research through online questionnaires and offline seminars to analyse the memory points and shortcomings of Ocean Blue packaging. Memorable points such as the "Ocean Blue main visual symbol and its classic streamlined bottle" should be continued; But the box material is soft, the colour gradation is quite grey and dull, and the bottle label lacks details and texture. The upgrade of Ocean Blue inherits the memory points, improves the deficiencies and combines modern and stylish design, to enhance the overall quality and grade. The focus is on upgrading the outer boxes, bottle labels, handbags and outer cases.
- Challenge
- Nearly 100 million bottles of the product are sold annually with its shoddy knock-offs rife in the market. This design is focused on anti-counterfeiting. The newly designed product includes a utility model patent for a composite buckle, which consists of an assembly part, a cross-linking part, and a connecting part. The buckle is made of plastic injection molding, with a hole set on its cross-linking part and a metal insert rod in the hole.
- Realization and Technology
- Bottle: blue material, weight 510g Cap: The materials used for the various parts of the cap contain PS, ABS, PC, PE or EPE. Box: The outer box is grey board paper containing positioned photo-engraved paper with a blister top; the interior is mounted on white board paper; with a foam pad and woven blister.
- Operation and Interaction
- The four codes of 1+6+6+6 are used to digitally correlate the inner and outer cap , box and case. 1 case code to 6 bottle codes + 6 box codes, each bottle code and box code corresponds to the other.
- Project Duration and Location
- 2021-May.2022,Nanjing,Jiangsu The project started in August 2021 in Nanjing,Jiangsu and finished in May 2019, Nanjing, Jiangsu.
- Keywords
- crafts, Baijiu, spirit, packaging, art
