Silver Packaging Design · 2021
Luzhou Laojiao 1915 Chinese Baijiu
by Haijun Shen
- A' Design Award 2021 Silver Winner in Packaging Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: DIGA Creative design
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 25,292
- Verification code 6BA111CCB6 · Verify this award
About Luzhou Laojiao 1915 Chinese Baijiu
Luzhou Laojiao 1915 is packaging for a Chinese baijiu spirit. The bottle is shaped like a sailing boat, and the visual symbols are refined from the Jiangyang map of Luzhou. The curved form refers to the flowing liquid inside and gives a comfortable feel in the hand. The bottle is made of glass with sprayed color and an applied brand mark. The box is finished with bronzing, embossing and an applied brand mark. The package measures 58 by 158 by 350 millimeters. The aim is a light and luxurious look for drinkers aged 30 to 40, with a modern high-end feeling that keeps the traditional character.
Within the distinguished tradition of luxury spirits packaging, Manling Lin's design for this commemorative baijiu edition achieves a remarkable synthesis of heritage reverence and contemporary sophistication that positions it among the most thoughtfully conceived presentations in the premium beverage category, the designer demonstrating exceptional sensitivity to the cultural weight carried by traditional spirits while embracing modernist principles of formal reduction and material honesty, the bottle form itself suggesting an evolution of classical ceramic vessel silhouettes translated into crystalline transparency that simultaneously honors ancestral craft traditions and celebrates contemporary technical achievement, the warm golden gradient ascending the bottle's upper register evoking associations with precious metals, aged materials, and the transformative alchemy of fermentation and time, while the shield-shaped label bearing elegant calligraphy establishes immediate cultural authentication through typographic heritage, the presentation box functions as both protective housing and ceremonial frame, its radiating linear pattern creating an almost meditative visual field that draws the eye toward the central commemorative medallion while suggesting concepts of emanation, enlightenment, and the spreading influence of cultural traditions across time, the consistent warm metallic palette unifying bottle and box speaks to cohesive brand vision while the careful orchestration of matte and lustrous surfaces creates sophisticated tactile and visual rhythm, the numerical reference embedded within the design suggests significant historical coordinates that root this contemporary object within longer temporal narratives of craft continuity and cultural memory, viewers are invited to consider how the ritual of presentation, unveiling, and consumption becomes elevated through such thoughtful material and visual mediation between product and recipient, between tradition and contemporary moment, between the practical and the ceremonial dimensions of shared celebration.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Luzhou Laojiao introduced a new product, ChineseBaijiu, which not only declares its brand value, but also develops a kind of light and luxurious ChineseBaijiu suitable for people aged 30 to 40 in the traditional old market.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 58mm×158mm×350mm
- Tags
- Jiangyang map,Luxury ChineseBaijiu,sailboat
- Production Technology
- Box: affixed brand, bronzing, embossing, bottle: glass bottle, spray color, affixed brand
- Design Challenge
- To express the feeling of modern high-end without losing the flavor of traditional LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO., LTD company. Limited company, we must strike a balance. Due to the narrow line of the bottle mouth, the final process realization needs a lot of communication with the factory.
- Project Duration
- The project was launched in Shenzhen in May 2020 and is expected to be completed in May 2021
- Operation Flow
- Different bottle design can stand out from the crowd. The treatment of radian is not only beautiful, but also provides consumers with a comfortable hand feeling
- Research
- Excavate the regional resources features of Luzhou where the brand is located, excavate the bottle-shaped features of each product stage of the brand, design the development trend of expression techniques, and investigate the aesthetic tendency of middle-aged people today. Through reading documents, investigation reports and on-the-spot investigation, the preparatory work for the above-mentioned preliminary design work has been completed
- Inspiration
- The bottle is shaped like a sailing boat, and the visual symbols are modernly refined from Luzhou Laojiao Jiangyang map. The logo of the sailing boat implies the new route of Luzhou Laojiao, riding the wind and waves; the graceful arc of the overall bottle shape is due to the flowing wine body of Luzhou Laojiao. Overall it gives people brisk, comfortable and vitality .