Press Release
Qingyuan Lianshan Hei Shan Rice Product Packaging by Yu Ziji Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Packaging Design
Yu Ziji honored 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/ Qingyuan Lianshan Hei Shan Rice Product Packaging by Yu Ziji, designed for 善水建, has been granted the Silver 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 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 Silver A' Design Award Means
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 Qingyuan Lianshan Hei Shan Rice Product Packaging
This project put forward the design concept of rice box as a ruler to measure the poetry of landscape, rice packaging is no longer a simple container, but a tool to perceive the poetry of nature, and a medium to connect people with the earth's emotions and humanistic spirit. This project added a measuring scale to the inner package of Black Mountain Rice, making the package a practical measuring cup, so that the user can really feel the concept of sustainability in the process of reuse, and make the product better integrated with the packaging.
Award Record
This recognition makes Yu Ziji 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/172813
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/172813
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!172813
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/368653
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Qingyuan Lianshan Hei Shan Rice Product Packaging
- Function
- Product Packaging
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Images
- 5
- Client
- 善水建
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yu Ziji
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #172813
Credits
- Image Credits
- D：Yu ziji
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This project put forward the design concept of “rice box as a ruler to measure the poetry of landscape”, rice packaging is no longer a simple container, but a tool to perceive the poetry of nature, and a medium to connect people with the earth's emotions and humanistic spirit.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the unique landscape of Qingyuan, the origin of fine rice, the terraced rice fields of Black Mountain in Lianshan, as well as the animal totems full of blessing meanings. People have been farming for generations and have reached a harmonious and symbiotic relationship with the land, which has led to prosperity. This is the meaning of sustainability inherent in the Black Mountain rice, reflecting the concept of “a grain of rice in the mountains, a grain of rice in the mountains”.
- Research
- With the idea that the beauty of design lies in its use, we have cleverly added a measuring scale to the inner packaging of “Black Mountain Rice”, making the packaging a practical measuring cup, so that users can truly feel the concept of sustainability in the process of reuse. The packaging becomes a practical measuring cup, making the user feel the concept of sustainability in the process of reuse. After the launch of the product, sales increased by 150%, and the product received two gold awards from the German iF design award and the British Pentawards, which gave it better recognition both commercially and in terms of its impact.
- Challenge
- The whole packaging project used the cheapest kraft paper sheets, the cost of the whole package is controlled at 5 yuan RMB, the sales price of the product is 138 yuan RMB, which improves the profit margin for the customer.
- Realization and Technology
- This project revitalizes traditional Chinese cultural symbols ("Fu, Lu, Shou, Xi, Cai" representing blessings, prosperity, longevity, happiness, and wealth) through contemporary visual language, reinvigorating neglected cultural heritage. Guided by the principle that "design excellence lies in functionality", we ingeniously incorporated a graduated measuring scale into the inner packaging, transforming the container into a practical measuring cup. This innovative adaptation enables users to experience sustainable practices through repeated utilitarian engagement.
- Operation and Interaction
- This project cleverly added a measuring scale to the inner package of “Black Mountain Rice”, making the package a practical measuring cup, so that the user can really feel the concept of sustainability in the process of reuse, and make the product better integrated with the packaging.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project timeframe starts in November 2022 and will be completed with May 2023 and available for sale in China.
- Specifications
- Outer packaging: By extracting the natural scenery of the product's place of origin and integrating it into the rice grains, it implies that the beauty of the local scenery and the essence of the sun and the moon can be captured in the mouth. It evokes the image of landscape and nature, and clearly conveys the concept of originality and simplicity of the product. Inner packaging: We extracted the five elements of “Fortune, Luck, Longevity, Happiness and Wealth” from the folklore, which represent the people's imaginations of happiness, promotion, longevity, joy and wealth, and express the people's aspirations for a fulfilling life in a simple and straightforward artistic language.
- Keywords
- Environmental Protection, Oriental, Kraft Paper, Sustainable
