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Luzhou Laojiao Chinese Baijiu

Manling Lin Chinese Baijiu Packaging

Luzhou Laojiao

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.

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Hao Prawns Seasoning Packaging

Jin Zhang Seasoning Packaging Packaging

Hao Prawns

Designers use a large area of white to distinguish themselves from other similar products, using a combination of familiar poker characters and crayfish to make consumers feel familiar; Because the Chinese characters of the brand name are easy to pronounce incorrectly, the designer designed the brand's English logo using Chinese pinyin annotations. Adding the tone makes it easier to pronounce the brand name correctly, and the tone shape is like a check mark, forming an auxiliary graphic for the brand.

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Alienergy Energy Drink Functional Beverages

Chi Forest Functional Beverages Packaging

Alienergy Energy Drink

Alienergy is packaging for a sugar free energy drink. The design uses a slim aluminium can measuring 58 mm in width, 58 mm in depth and 142 mm in height, holding 330 ml. Aluminium was chosen because it can be recycled and repurposed efficiently. An alien figure, drawn as an extension of the brand logo, forms the main graphic and is repeated across the product line. A clean colour palette, straight lines, geometric shapes and metallic accents give the can a strong shelf presence. The information hierarchy highlights the sugar free formula.

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Tazo Refresh Beverage

PepsiCo Design and Innovation Beverage Packaging

Tazo Refresh

Tazo Refresh is the packaging design for a line of ready to drink premium iced teas. The line is based on three established brand flavors, named Zen, Awake and Passion. The teas are certified organic and contain no artificial colors or sweeteners. The packaging is offered in 12 ounce single serve and 42 ounce multi serve bottles made of 100 percent post-consumer plastic. Bold ingredient colors are combined with white to express each fresh flavor clearly on the shelf. The design aims to keep current buyers and to attract a more adventurous audience.

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Randle Soda Water

Yang Bo Soda Water Packaging

Randle

The packaging design creativity represents people enjoying music with headphones. The product brings a sense of youthful fashion, health, and pleasure. It caters to the consumption psychology of young groups. Soda water can balance the body's acidity and alkalinity, achieving health goals. The pattern design overlays the circular bodies and heads of the characters, expressing balance. The English creative for Soda, with the letter A supporting the other three letters, resembles a balancing act, which is interesting and visually conveys the concept of acid base balance.

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Yukidoke Mitsu Fruits Package

SHINGO FURUSHO Fruits Package Packaging

Yukidoke Mitsu

Yukidoke Mitsu is a gift package for brand-name strawberries grown in Mizukami Village, Kumamoto Prefecture. The strawberries have a high sugar content and are harvested when the snow melts in the high altitude village, where the headstream of the Kuma River is found. The design covers a pasted paper box with textured white paper that suggests falling snow. A strawberry motif is applied in red foil stamping. The box measures 242 by 160 by 57 millimetres and has a lid on top. The solid box gives a sense of luxury suited to gift giving.

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Ten Years Planting Cycle Packaging

Jonny Wang Packaging Packaging

Ten Years Planting Cycle

Qinjianguo is a packaging design for iron stick yam powder. The product follows a ten-year planting cycle, in which the land rests and only one season of yam is grown every decade. Yam grown in such soil absorbs rich nutrients, and the pulp is made directly into powder. The box measures 120 by 120 by 150 millimeters. The graphics form a visual symbol of the number ten, built from swallows in spring, cicadas in summer, farming work in autumn, cedars in winter and plowing farmers. The imagery shows the seasons of the decade.

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Better for All Gift Box

ShenZhen XiShang Boutique Packing Co., Ltd Gift Box Packaging

Better for All

Better for All is a gift box designed for the Chinese New Year. The outer packaging is mainly red to echo the festive mood of the holiday. The box opens in a way that recalls a traditional Chinese double door. Once unfolded, an auspicious illustration combining dancing lions, flying fairies and lanterns is revealed. A magnetic sticker shaped like a dancing lion decorates and holds the box, and can later be used as a refrigerator sticker. Red packets, couplets and a calendar are placed inside, all sharing the same illustration elements. Eco-friendly paper and ink are used.

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Lay's Love Packaging

PepsiCo Design and Innovation Packaging Packaging

Lay's Love

Lay's Love is a packaging design created for two limited edition snack flavors in India, Lay's Herby Crush and Lay's Cheesy Love. Each pack shows a hand held in a half heart shape, so two packs placed side by side complete the heart and pair the two flavors. A bold script in the center of the bag names the flavor. Behind each hand illustration are silhouettes of couples walking on a beach, palm trees and soft clouds. The colorful design was made to mark friendship and love among young consumers.

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Ying Hua Qing Su Packaging

Jin Zhang Packaging Packaging

Ying Hua Qing Su

The front of the gift box is covered with cherry blossoms, matching with the landmark buildings in Wuhan, showing the vitality of spring and local characteristics. The swallow with love letter gives the picture romantic emotion, the characters in the 1990s add a sense of retro, highlighting the characteristics of the century old craftsmanship of the brand. The inner box design can be cleverly folded into the shape of cherry blossom, which matches with the blue bottom box of the lake, forming the aesthetic feeling of Cherry Blossom falling on the lake.

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Siela Cosmetic Packaging

Olha Takhtarova Cosmetic Packaging Packaging

Siela

Siela is a packaging design for a line of children's cosmetics. The design uses a white plastic tube of 75 ml, decorated by screen and pad printing. Stylized illustrations are placed at the center of the design, and a single character appears in different places and situations across the line. Color coding helps buyers tell the products apart. Text is reduced to a minimum, so the right product can be recognized quickly on the shelf. The white surface keeps the illustrations clear and easy to see.

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Sunboy Gift Box Sunflower Seeds Packaging

TIGER PAN Sunflower Seeds Packaging Packaging

Sunboy Gift Box

Sunboy Gift Box is a packaging design for sunflower seed snacks. The gift box holds cylindrical iron tins that can be reused. The outer box is made of corrugated paper, which strengthens the structure and makes recycling easier. The opening structure is redefined, so the box is simple to assemble and to separate. The tins buckle together to form modular sets of one, two or three layers, which enlarges the exposed product area and saves material. The printed scene uses a paper cut style and shows the Sunboy character running in a sunflower field.

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