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Discover 1029 award-winning designs tagged Packaging on A Design Magazine.

Fortune Express Baijiu Packaging

Fortune Express

Fortune Express is a packaging design for baijiu. The gable roof box measures 280 by 150 by 230 millimetres and is opened from the bottom. Lifting each interior flap reveals five bottles, and each bottle shows a different God of Wealth in a Five Elements colour. Below the bottles are five plush blind boxes that are torn open to reveal small stylised figures. The outer box is finished with foil stamping, and the labels are digitally printed. The plush dolls are made of soft polyester fibre with embroidered details.

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Dukang Mellow Liquor Packaging

Dukang Mellow

Dukang Mellow is a bottle and packaging design for baijiu, a Chinese distilled liquor. The design is aimed at people who drink alone, and seeks to offer emotional comfort as well as refreshment. The bottle body is slender and streamlined, suggesting the path of a spinning planet. The rounded and weighted inverted base adds stability and reduces the risk of tipping, and is paired with a metal cap. The bottle is made with a high share of recycled glass, and the glass can be recycled again without limit. The outer packaging uses forest certified paper.

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Wuliangye Yuandingjinsheng Baijiu Packaging

Wuliangye Yuandingjinsheng

Wuliangye Yuandingjinsheng is a packaging design for Chinese baijiu served at wedding banquets. The box opens with a pull-out mechanism, so that two pandas drawn in ink painting style appear to embrace each other. Six illustrated stages of a shared life are linked to the steps of opening the package. The bottle shape is based on bamboo, and the cap follows the form of a traditional embroidered ball. The package is made of recyclable pulp material. The spiral bottle mouth allows the bottle to be reused as a cup or a vase.

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Ucon Natural Mineral Water

Ucon

Ucon is a bottle design for natural mineral water. The upper part of the bottle takes stone as the main visual symbol, while the lower part uses a faceted ore form based on a parametric triangular surface. The two parts create contrast and remain harmonious as a whole. The cut edges are kept smooth to give a comfortable grip. The label is printed with water-based ink to reduce emissions from the printing process, and a pearlized film shows black rock, white dot and gold stripe textures. The bottle measures 64 by 64 by 220 millimeters.

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Minsheng Lesuke Packaging

Minsheng Lesuke

Minsheng Lesuke is a packaging design for a smoking cessation medicine. The design uses a progressive smiling face symbol and a positive colour system to offer encouragement instead of warnings. An orange starter pack marks the beginning of the quitting period, while a green maintenance pack suggests growth and balance. Daily dose cells are divided by precise hot press tear off lines, so one cell is opened each day and progress stays visible. The body is made of recyclable paper based composite film, finished with matte paper and a soft touch film.

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Fertile Soil Wish Fertilizer Design Packaging

Fertile Soil Wish Fertilizer Design

Fertile Soil Wish Fertilizer Design is a packaging for home gardening fertilizer. The outer box takes the shape of a traditional Japanese ema, or votive tablet, and carries a leaf motif and the word omamori. Inside, the fertilizer is compacted into star shaped tablets that are placed directly in the soil, so plastic packaging is not required. The box is made of sustainable wood and can be reused and hung above a plant pot, with only refill tablets needed later. A color code marks each product for flowers, succulents and other plants.

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Ecopuzzle Guard Repurpose Packaging

Ecopuzzle Guard

Ecopuzzle Guard is a reusable packaging design for a portable power product. The packaging is cut from a single sheet of fully recycled corrugated cardboard with a water based coating. After unboxing, the components are removed from the top lid and snapped together without tools. The pieces form three puzzle like scenes: tent camping, recreational vehicle travel and home backup power. The assembled piece can be kept as a desktop display, which extends the life of the packaging. The design combines protection, interaction and reuse in order to reduce waste.

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The Taoscan Irish Whiskey Packaging

The Taoscan

To stand out from the crowd you need to be extraordinary. And The Taoscan is no ordinary product: there is no whiskey on earth like it. Designed for the finest venues, stealing the limelight on the bar. The stand and accessories were designed to offer the perfect whiskey serve: its open, 360 degrees design allows it to be viewed from every angle, deploying envy from everyone else in the bar. The walnut stand, the detailed copper stems that lead up to a leather handle, the obsidian or the thoroughly crafted bottle and glasses; every part of The Tasocan is the pinnacle of design excellence.

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Ankodoki Sweet Bean Jelly

Ankodoki

This package was created for the yokan line launched by a long-established Japanese bean paste maker. While preserving the traditional value of yokan, it breaks away from the conventional heavy packaging style. The nostalgic yet casual design brings warmth and approachability, perfectly matching the organic and simple taste of the sweets. Welcomed even by those unfamiliar with wagashi, it has been highly acclaimed and has won numerous awards both in Japan and abroad.

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Cistanche Desertico Plant Beverage Packaging

Cistanche Desertico

Cistanche Desertico is a packaging design for a plant based beverage made with cistanche deserticola peptide. The package is a compact box that fits easily inside a bag. The structure is lightweight and modular, so the drink inside can be removed after a single opening step. The box is made of white cardboard with gold foil stamping, which supports a minimal and formal visual style. The design moves away from the heavy look of traditional tonic packaging and addresses the daily habits of young office workers.

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Dukang Soullink Liquor

Dukang Soullink

Dukang Soullink is a packaging design for a twin-bottle liquor gift set. The set holds 580 millilitres of Baijiu in two bottles of 322 and 258 millilitres, with an alcohol content of 52 percent. The gift box measures 125 by 96 by 160 millimetres. Sound wave ripples are carved into the crystal-textured bottles, and the two bottles form one complete pattern when placed side by side. Silicone pads inside the box absorb shock. The design translates the theme of close friendship into a visual language for social drinking and gifting.

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Nature Blend Plant Based Beverage

Nature Blend

Pinar Nature Blend is a packaging design for a family of plant based beverages. The design applies a simple, modern and holistic visual architecture to the herbal beverage category. Natural tones are combined with illustrative elements and photographic images of the contents. A clear hierarchy helps shoppers recognize each variant quickly. Sharp transitions are used instead of soft gradients, so printing on carton surfaces remains clean and consistent. The result reduces visual clutter and separates the product family from competing items on the shelf.

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