Silver Packaging Design · 2022
Idun Red Heart Apple Juice
by Evan Chen
- A' Design Award 2022 Silver Winner in Packaging Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Lascaux Design Institute Inc.
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 26,826
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About Idun Red Heart Apple Juice
The goddess of youth who rules the golden apple: Idun. The main image pays homage to the artist John Bauer, extracting Idun and redesigning it to incorporate the beautiful apple-growing environment. The apples in the goddess's hand are hollowed out on the bottle label to reveal the red apple juice beneath the label, expressing the natural properties of the apples. Three of the apples are treated with a gold stamping process to convey the three golden apples get from the Goddess of Youth to squeeze into juice.
EvanChen's Idun Red Heart Apple Juice packaging design represents a distinguished contribution to contemporary beverage branding that synthesizes heritage illustration traditions with modern premium positioning strategies. The work demonstrates sophisticated understanding of visual hierarchy through its layered label composition, where fine-line classical illustration depicting an allegorical female figure within pastoral orchard setting provides narrative depth typically absent from mass-market beverage packaging. This illustrative approach evokes nineteenth-century commercial art traditions, suggesting provenance, craftsmanship, and time-honored production methods through visual language alone. The chromatic strategy employs saturated ruby-red contents visible through transparent vessels to communicate freshness, vitality, and the essential character of the fruit source, while cream-colored label grounds and gold striping accents introduce associations with premium quality and refined taste. The sculptural bottle form with its distinctive embossed cap featuring organic floral or botanical patterning extends brand expression into three-dimensional tactile experience, inviting handling and examination that reinforces perceived value. The systematic diagonal arrangement visible in this presentation image demonstrates the packaging's effectiveness both as individual object and as collective display, suggesting retail shelf impact while celebrating each unit's individual artistry. The integration of multilingual text elements indicates global market ambitions while maintaining visual coherence through careful typographic orchestration. Technical execution appears exemplary, with precise registration of label elements, consistent color application across visible units, and thoughtful attention to material finish variations from glossy vessel to matte paper to metallic accent. The design invites consideration of how contemporary packaging can honor historical visual traditions while meeting present commercial requirements, and how material objects of daily consumption might transcend their functional purpose to become bearers of cultural meaning and aesthetic pleasure.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The skin of the apple is red as they all know, the inner flesh is also red, which is rare. This red heart apple juice is made from apples with red flesh (the tree originates from Switzerland), which is why its juice is also red in colour, and this juice has no additives and is rich in anthocyanins and nutrients.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The size of the label is 68mm*108mm, a very small space, and they use very fine drawing and craftsmanship.
- Tags
- logo,packaging,illustrations,graphics
- Production Technology
- The apples in the goddess's hand are hollowed out on the bottle label to reveal the red apple juice beneath the label, expressing the natural properties of the apples.
Three of the apples are treated with a gold stamping process to convey the three golden apples they get from the Goddess of Youth to squeeze into juice. - Design Challenge
- Copperplate illustration is complex for Chinese illustrators, who need to deal with the relationship between the figure and the environment.At the same time, the stamping and hollowing process took a lot of time to complete during the proofing and product making process.
- Project Duration
- This project was completed in Suzhou in November 2021.
- Operation Flow
- Maximise the original colour of the juice. Consumers can drink 100% NFC apple juice.
- Research
- The three "gods" associated with Apple: Adam and Eve, Newton and Steve Jobs. They have also discovered a fourth, the goddess of youth who rules the golden apple: Idun. The main image pays homage to the illustrations of artist John Bauer, extracting Idun and redesigning it to incorporate the beautiful apple-growing environment.
- Inspiration
- It is also worth noting that the apple in the goddess's hand is hollowed out on the bottle label, leaving out the red apple juice beneath the label and expressing the natural properties of the apple. There are also three apples treated with a gold stamping process to express the fact that they got three golden apples from the Goddess of Youth to squeeze into juice, expressing the fact that the product is rich in anthocyanins that are beneficial to people.
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