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Li Beer

Li is a gift packaging design for beer. The glass bottle takes its shape from the Shuang-Er-Ni-Yu pottery bottle unearthed at the Yangshao cultural site. Carvings on the surface resemble traditional water ripples and fish stripes. An embossing technique is applied to the package, so the texture can be felt by touch. Elegant images and archaic fonts add a sense of history. The package is opened by tearing off the top seal. The design celebrates the early history of beer brewing in China and the traditional Chinese recipe used for the beer inside.

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The Pompadour

The Pompadour is a fragrance packaging design inspired by the classic English barbershop. The outer box uses a checkered pattern drawn from barbershop floors, and the leather box opens in a way that recalls sitting in a barber chair. The bottle is a clear glass cylinder with vertical grooves, and a red, white and blue helix rotates as the bottle is unscrewed. A printed sheet in a serif font presents product information in the style of an old newspaper. The bottle holds a refillable capsule, and the outer packaging is made of recyclable materials.

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Johnnie Walker Limited Edition

Johnnie Walker Limited Edition is a gift packaging design for a whisky bottle released for the Mid-Autumn Festival in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival is an important time for family reunion, so the themes are home, reunion and emotion. The design draws on the doors and windows of traditional Chinese architecture. The outer box opens as a double door, held closed by a magnet button in the centre, and reveals the bottle inside. Orchids, butterflies and auspicious clouds are depicted. Gilding and laser cutting are used on the box, and sandblasting is applied to the bottle.

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Lineage de La Foliole

Lineage de La Foliole is a packaging design for Pu'er tea essence. Pu'er tea normally requires up to nine manual steps, while the tea essence allows the taste to be enjoyed through a faster extraction method. The packaging carries a tea leaf shaped icon with a granular texture, which refers to the extraction of the essence from large Pu'er leaves. Chinese characters in the Song Ti font are arranged in different forms to give a classical tone. Lines and selected elements are gold stamped, and the illustrations are framed in gold.

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Ucon

Ucon is a bottle design for natural mineral water. The upper part of the bottle takes stone as the main visual symbol, while the lower part uses a faceted ore form based on a parametric triangular surface. The two parts create contrast and remain harmonious as a whole. The cut edges are kept smooth to give a comfortable grip. The label is printed with water-based ink to reduce emissions from the printing process, and a pearlized film shows black rock, white dot and gold stripe textures. The bottle measures 64 by 64 by 220 millimeters.

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Have a Nice Can

Have a Nice Can is a packaging design for a handmade canned seafood brand. The range includes an individual sleeve, a gift bag for three cans and gift boxes for six, nine and twelve cans. The gift bag handle uses a rope that recalls a fishing port. The gift boxes combine bright orange for the sun and blue for the sea. Fish illustrations are printed on both sides of the sleeve, so the pattern continues when packs are placed side by side to form a store display. Environmentally friendly certified paper is used, and the cans are left unlabeled so they can be recycled easily.

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