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Liandong Zhang and Xueqian Zhang Receives the Golden A' Design Award for Guijiu 20 Baijiu Packaging in Packaging Design
Liandong Zhang and Xueqian Zhang recognized for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Guijiu 20 Baijiu Packaging by Liandong Zhang and Xueqian Zhang, designed for Guizhou Guijiu Group Co., Ltd, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Guijiu 20 Baijiu Packaging
Guijiu 20 is packaging for a Chinese baijiu spirit. The bottle joins a round top with a square body, a form linked to traditional ideas of harmony. Relief patterns of butterflies, phoenixes, birds and fish are drawn from the traditional motifs of ethnic groups in Guizhou, China. Annual ring lines and terrace lines refer to ageing and to the local landscape. The bottle is made of high-transparency glass with a metallic cap, and a surface treatment gives the glass a ceramic-like texture at a lower cost. The square body also improves grip.
Award Record
Liandong Zhang and Xueqian Zhang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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/170686
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/170686
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!170686
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/356337
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Guijiu 20 Baijiu Packaging
- Function
- Baijiu Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Midnight Blue, Dark Slate Blue, Black, Dark Slate Gray and Dark Khaki
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Guizhou Guijiu Group Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Liandong Zhang and Xueqian Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #170686
Credits
- Team
- Liandong Zhang, Xueqian Zhang, Ru Li, Dongyan Ruan and Yunlei Zhou
- Image Credits
- Guizhou Guijiu Group Co., Ltd
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Adopting the bottle shape of heaven round and earth square, it creates a unique visual identity. The combination of the annual rings and the lines of local terraces to express the concept of vintage and regional cultural characteristics, and highlights the brand's quality connotation of nobility, scarcity and excellence. The bottle pattern adopts the traditional patterns of local ethnic minorities, which not only shows the modern design aesthetics, but also conveys the deep humanistic emotions.
- Inspiration
- Motivated by the unique human spirit and natural landscape of Guizhou, China. Through refining the traditional patterns and natural symbols of local ethnic minorities. It creates a baijiu product with brand characteristics and deep integration of local culture. It adopts the annual rings and the lines of local terraces to express the concept of vintage and regional cultural characteristics clearly.
- Research
- In the Chinese baijiu market, jiang-flavour Chinese spirits products usually adopt cylinder-shaped bottles and brown color tones for market acceptance. The question is how to break the prejudice against traditional products and better convey the region and folk culture of the region.
- Challenge
- The first challenge is that the similar products of this brand choose traditional shape of cylindrical bottles for older products, which has become a representative in consumers' mind, and blue is also a color rarely used for similar liquor products, so it is a challenge to establish a new product image against the traditional market and consumer cognition. The second challenge is the use of the bottle material, through a breakthrough technology of surface treatment to make the glass bottle with ceramic noble texture, and greatly reduces the cost of the bottle.
- Realization and Technology
- Combined with traditional totems and modern craftsmanship, it reflects a dual pursuit of quality and culture by the brand. The bottle is made of high-transparency glass with a metallic cap, highlighting the high-end texture. The pattern of the bottle is composed of butterflies, phoenixes, birds, fish and other auspicious totems, which are shown in three-dimensional relief, symbolizing good luck and prosperity, and a year's supply of surplus. The label design integrates Guizhou's national landscape culture, with multi-colored blocks to show the regional characteristics, and integrates the brand's genes to convey the unique positioning of soft jiang-flavour.
- Operation and Interaction
- Helping consumers find the ideal product was the key challenge in this project. The unique square shape of the bottle gives consumers a sense of grip that is unlike any other product of its kind, while the distinctive color and shape also make it easy for consumers to identify and pick up the product.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project launched in February 2021 and release to market in June 2024
- Specifications
- box：140*110*275mm bottle：115*62*223mm
- Keywords
- Soft Jiang-flavour Chinese spirits, Real vintage, Guijiu 20
