Day of Design

Day of Design

Day of Design featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Dukang Liquor

Dukang Liquor is a packaging design for a Chinese baijiu. The bottle is shaped from top to bottom to form the abstract profile of Cao Cao, a historical military strategist and poet whose verse gave the brand its name. The cap recalls the headwear of officials of the period after the Han dynasty, and the body is carved like a gown, which also gives a steady grip. Glass is used instead of the ceramic common to similar brands, so the surface gains gloss and texture. The outer box is decorated with a vector painting of Luoyang, the ancient capital.

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Collection of Formosa Terroir

Taiwan agriculture has always been a source of pride for the nation, with high-quality products that carry moving tales behind them. To present their beauty, PH7 Creative Lab has brought together farmers' associations from central, west, south and east Taiwan and selected four products with local representation value that align with ESG around the theme of Collection of Formosa Terroir.

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Botchan Ressha

Miltos Botchan Ressha is a chocolate package created for a collaboration between a locomotive with more than 130 years of history and a chocolatier. The box is made of deep green fine paper, a color that refers to the train livery and to matcha chocolate. The locomotive is reproduced with matte black foil stamping, based on photographs of the actual train. The logo and the product name are stamped with matt gold foil. The chocolate is engraved with a route map drawn as a maze. An attached card explains each stop and the route.

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Green Light Tea Garden

Green Light Tea Garden is a packaging design for organic tea. The paper is made from used tea leaf residue and recycled tea bag paper. The handmade long fiber paper is printed with environmentally friendly ink. The illustrations show four native animals of Pinglin, Taiwan: the collared owlet, the Formosan muntjac, the Swinhoe pheasant and the emerald green tree frog. Each animal is placed in a local setting of cloud, mountain, forest and water. The packaging includes a gift box and a smaller bag, and explains the link between organic tea and the protection of nature.

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The Enchanted Forest

Label and packaging design for Blue Lagoon distillery, New Caledonia a small distillery of the islands, and their rum bottle, The Enchanted Forest. It is a uniquely crafted white rum characterized by gentle vanilla aromas, distilled from a variety of sugar cane produced by farmers in Southern Caledonia. The objective was to create a label design that conveys the quality of the brand and creates an emotional bond with the customers in a highly competitive market. The overall feeling of the packaging is about the intertwining of tradition and modernity.

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Logothetis

Mother Nature, the eternal inspiration, leads to an extraordinary design for a traditional way of doing. Logothetis Farm in Zakynthos, Greece, lets the values and importance of the legendary Greek heritage emerge in a dynamic way. The farm to table experience meets the magic of design, storytelling and branding. With a classic and clean identity, and a playful twist for today’s audience, the packaging gives a warm aura that welcomes all consumers to get it!

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