Day of Design

Day of Design

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

 

Moutai Prince

This packaging design focuses on aesthetic expression while exploring deep cultural connotations, infusing the product with rich cultural heritage and emotional value. The bottle presents an illustration named Timeless Heritage, meticulously embossed to enhance its 3D effect and visual layering. The golden hue of the liquor being poured by the deity symbolizes liquid gold, representing preciousness and refinement. The outer box features borders adorned with Ruyi motifs, cloud patterns, and an illustration of five cranes, collectively conveying wishes for longevity, prosperity, and health.

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Solid Order

Solid Order is a high end jewelry brand from China with a neutral aesthetic influenced by geometric shapes and architectural structures. The brand's visual language focuses on squares and circles, which inspired a packaging design that resembles installation art. This packaging balances form and function, making the box an integral part of the product experience, with the potential for continued use even after the jewelry is removed.

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Courage 2.0

The power of minimalism: stripping back to essentials. The use of clean lines, ample white space, and subtle typography creates a sense of clinical authority while enhancing legibility. A clutter-free layout allows key information to stand out: active ingredients, scientific benefits, and dermatological endorsements, fostering trust and clarity. Maximizing color dynamism: a new approach to vibrancy. The design packaging leverages fully maximized, dynamic, and vibrant colors while maintaining scientific credibility. Deep, rich tones such as navy or emerald convey dermatological expert.

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Gushu Jinzhu

Inspired by ancient wild longan trees, this design blends Eastern heritage with modern sustainability. The Heaven-Earth box showcases gold-foiled tree rings and Loong scale patterns, with engraved Twin Loong motifs. Inside, a vintage craft poster and Song Dynasty teacup pair with 4 reusable acrylic jars. By reimagining heritage elements like Celadon ceramics and Loong symbolism into modular reusable systems, the packaging balances aesthetics with circular design principles.

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Whispers of Ink

Whispers of Ink fragrance series includes scented candles, travel incense sticks and plaster diffuser stones, all of which are carefully crafted with traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage techniques. The packaging design incorporates the magnolia book element, with branches and leaves taken from the magnolia in Jiangnan gardens, and the flower shape is transformed into an open book page, creating a book with fragrance environment.

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Menhao Tea

Inspired by 19th-century botanical archives, this system reengineers tea evaluation through scientific visualization. A biological phylogenetic tree maps six tea categories with craft-tea terroir coordinates, processing timelines, and flavor matrices, establishing an academic archival framework. The archival case employs bronze hot foil stamping for botanical motifs and silver parameter indicators, while the cotton cord closure system recreates document retrieval rituals. Tactile interaction enhances historical research dimensions.

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