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

Golden Life Wine Packaging

Golden Life

Golden Life is a packaging design for green plum wine. The form is inspired by traditional Japanese architecture with Chinese elements, including temple and house profiles and the curves of Zen buildings. A golden color reflects the tone of the wine. The outer box is made of composite paper combined with polyethylene and foil, while the bottle is made of glass, a chemically stable material that is not corroded by alcohol or acids. An opening on the side saves material and production steps. A removable ring and a ribbon hold the package closed and make it easy to carry.

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Open Packaging Sleeves

Open

This project is called Open and includes six different photography magazines which are bundled in these custom-made sleeves. The sleeves are made of a thick, heavy, anthracite cardboard with an embossing and screen printed numbers 1-80 (the number of subscribers). The client personally stamped each box during the presentation which makes every box a unique one. The title on the boxes is quite literally open, because the cut-away in both boxes show the letter O when placed next to each other.

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Garden Essential Oil Packaging

Garden

Garden is a packaging design for plant essential oils. The structure combines a box with a pop-up mechanism, a technique usually found in interactive books. When the packaging is opened, chairs rise and a garden stage background unfolds, together with a swinging ballerina figure. The scene turns the act of opening into a short performance rather than a simple task. The packaging is made of degradable plant fiber paper. The pop-up structure enriches the interior space and supports the garden theme of the product. The overall size is 290 by 150 by 86 millimeters.

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I Classici Cherchi Wine labels design

I Classici Cherchi

For a historic winery in Sardinia, since 1970, it has been designed the restyling of labels for "The Classics" wines line. The study of new labels wanted to preserve the link with the tradition that the company is pursuing. Unlike previous labels it worked to give a touch of elegance that goes well with the high quality of the wines. For the labels has been working with the Braille technique that brings elegance and style without weighing. The floral pattern is based on a graphic elaboration of a pattern of the nearby church of Santa Croce in Usini, which is also the company logo.

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Stage Proposal Ring Box

Stage

Stage Ring Box is a proposal ring box designed to extend the moment when the ring is revealed. Instead of opening in an instant, the box raises the ring slowly as the base is rotated, and a small baffle moves aside. The gradual movement recalls a performer rising from the middle of a stage and lengthens the sense of expectation. The body is made of resin with a painted outer surface and a simple shape that is easy to form with a mold. The aim is to strengthen the ceremonial feeling of a marriage proposal.

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Wine Black Pyramid Limited Edition

Wine Black Pyramid

Wine Black Pyramid features a four wine bottle premium package greatly inspired in the ancient Egyptian culture with silhouettes resembling the figures of kings at the metal armor in the packaging resembling an pyramid. Each bottle type symbolizes one of the fourth primary elements: fire, earth, water and air. They are represented with luminescent symbols that shine in the darkness.

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Utobeera Fruitbeer

Utobeera

Utobeera is a packaging design for a fruit beer. The name Utobeera was inspired by the word Utopia, and it reflects the brand values of equality, human rights, diversity, uniqueness and love. Four well known figures from art history are reinterpreted in a psychedelic illustration style: the hat man by Rene Magritte, a girl in a Chinese dress, Bacchus, the god of wine, and the Chinese god of longevity. Each fruit in the original artworks is replaced by a digital fruit figure. The design refers to cyberpunk culture and uses Pantone colors and foil pressing.

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Hopapops Healthy Snack Food

Hopapops

Project tasks: Naming, brand creation and packaging design for popped water lily seeds, targeted at US consumers. The challenge was how to grab a market that hasn’t necessarily heard of the key ingredient, water lily seeds. The solution, to focus on shelf shout, simple information hierarchy and prominent ingredient visuals. The illustration, which makes up both the front and back of the packaging, drives home the product and flavor variant. The uneven nature of the Hopapops brand mark typography adds a cheeky bounce to the packs, complimenting the fun tone of voice created for the brand.

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Game Fuel Team Optic Champions Can Packaging

Game Fuel Team Optic Champions Can

Game Fuel Team Optic Champions Can is a limited edition beverage can created for the gaming community. The flagship packaging design was adapted to reflect the Optic Gaming team, whose members wear white during tournament play. White forms the background of the can, with accents of green. A custom illustration of each team member is presented as a photorealistic portrait. Direct printing, tactile varnish and a raised three dimensional finish emboss the entire body of the can. A matte ink finish in selected areas highlights the metallic tones.

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Lithuanian vodka Gold. Black Edition Bottle decor

Lithuanian vodka Gold. Black Edition

The gold-shining “Lithuanian vodka Gold. Black Edition” inherited its exclusive look from Lithuanian folk art. Rhombus and herringbones, combined from little squares, are very common patterns in Lithuanian folk art. Although reference to these national motifs gained more modern forms – mysterious past reflections were transformed into modern art. Predominant golden and black colours emphasize the exceptional vodka filtration process through coal and golden filters. This is what makes “Lithuanian vodka Gold. Black Edition” so delicate and crystal clear.

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Propeller Labels

Propeller

Propeller is a collection of spirits from various parts of the world, associated by air travel theme and a pilot traveller as a brand character. Features of each sort of beverage are exposed through numerous illustrations, inscriptions resembling aviation badges and sketches serving as cocktail recipes. Multifaceted design is complemented with various tones of coloured foil, different lacquers, patterns and embossing.

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Stumbro Starka Bottle design and labels

Stumbro Starka

The image of Stumbro Starka was changed in essence by creating a whole from its parts: from the new, uniquely-shaped, dark glass bottle adorned with raised calligraphy and the rich label which tells the legend of the beverage, to the bottle stopper decorated with an oak leaf wreath. The stork character appeared as a symbol of recognition. Caught in the unexpected role of a hospitable innkeeper, the stork became an intriguing and appealing narrator for the story.

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