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Precious Pastries Packaging for a Healthcare Brand

Precious Pastries

Precious Pastries is a packaging design for Bazhen Cake, a traditional Chinese pastry that contains eight precious ingredients. The outer box and the paper handle combine to form the shape of a crane, a bird that represents health and longevity in Chinese Taoist culture. The construction is environmentally friendly and saves cost. When the box is opened, the top forms a complete image, and the different sides of four boxes join into one larger picture. The design connects the culture of a century-old brand with oriental aesthetics.

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Oliv Olive Oil

Oliv

Oliv is a packaging design for a Swedish extra virgin olive oil brand. The main bottle is made of borosilicate glass with a glossy finish that reveals the color of the oil. Olive oil is usually sold in tinted glass or in tins to limit exposure to sunlight. A patented glass combination was developed with a partner manufacturer to keep the oil visible and protect its quality. A second bottle, for a flavored oil, carries a hand printed matte label with blue textured foil. The black box is filled with shredded hinoki wood.

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Zhi Hou Chinese Baijiu Packaging

Zhi Hou

This is a citrus flavored Chinese Baijiu called "Zhi Hou". In Yunnan, China, people will turn good quality citrus brewing into baijiu. The raw material ratio of this product has reached the level of 20 pounds citrus brewing a pound Baijiu, so it can only be sold in limited quantity.in designed the bottle into a ball shape, and made irregular bulges at the shoulders of the bottle, so that the shape would not look so monotonous. The shape of the bottle cap, designer directly simulated the branches of citrus, when the bottle was put into the orange bag, the bottle cap would be exposed.

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Bama Elegant Meeting Tea Packaging

Bama Elegant Meeting

Bama Elegant Meeting is a tea packaging series created for a classic Chinese tea. The design is based on four plants, plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, which represent the four gentlemen in traditional Chinese culture. Each plant is linked to a different tea variety and its character. The tea can is round and full in shape, suggesting harmony. The top of the can takes its form from the Taihu stone used in Chinese gardens, a shape associated with elegance. The packaging is made of ceramic and paper and measures 230 by 230 by 210 millimeters.

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AEcht Nuernberger Kellerbier Bavarian Beer Packaging Design

AEcht Nuernberger Kellerbier

In medieval times, local breweries let their beer age in over 600 years old rock-cut cellars underneath the Nuremberg castle. Honoring this history, the packaging of the "AEcht Nuernberger Kellerbier" takes an authentic look back in time. The beer label shows a hand drawing of the castle sitting on rocks and a wooden barrel in the cellar, framed by vintage-style type fonts. The sealing label with the company’s “St. Mauritius” trademark and the copper-colored crown cork convey craftsmanship and trust.

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Kuniichi Food Package

Kuniichi

The traditional Japanese preserved food Tsukudani is not well known in the world. A soy sauce-based stewed dish combining various seafood and land ingredients. The new package includes nine labels designed to modernize traditional Japanese patterns and express the characteristics of ingredients. The new brand logo is designed with the expectation of continuing that tradition for the next 100 years.

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