Packaging Design News

Packaging Design News

Packaging Design News featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Xinjihao Bingdao

Xinjihao Bingdao is a packaging design for a Pu'er tea grown in the primitive forests of Yunnan Province in southwest China. The theme of the design is the harmony between forest residents and nature, where people, animals and plants coexist. The red box refers to the acidic red soil in which the tea grows. Chinese calligraphy characters are used to express the strong taste of the tea. The packaging is intended to convey the natural flavor of the tropical rain forest and to give the tea a clear oriental character.

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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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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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