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Organic Wine Packaging

Ximena Ureta Wine Packaging Packaging Friday, 19 December 2025

Organic

Organic is a wine label design created for a certified organic and vegan wine brand. The label is inspired by the self-sustaining ecosystem of organic vineyards, which are grown without chemicals or synthetic products. That natural balance protects the vines from pests and diseases and supports the health of the grapes. The label is printed on recycled certified paper in four special colors, using digital offset with silkscreen finishes and a protective varnish. Printed reliefs replace metallic stamping, so metallised foils are avoided.

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Fck 2020 Calendar

Francesco Fallisi Calendar Graphic Thursday, 18 December 2025

Fck 2020

Fck 2020 is a table calendar for the year 2021. The calendar is produced as a leporello, a long sheet folded into twelve panels. It can be kept flat and browsed like a book, or placed on a desk in the shape of a circle or other forms. Each month carries a short wish for the new year, told through polychrome modernist graphics and minimal illustrations. The intent is to turn the page on a difficult year with humour and imagination. Printing is digital on 240 gram white paper. The folded size is 169 by 240 millimetres.

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The Enchanted Forest Packaging

Elena Gamalova Packaging Packaging Wednesday, 17 December 2025

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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Zhi Hou Chinese Baijiu Packaging

XIONGBO DENG Chinese Baijiu Packaging Packaging Tuesday, 16 December 2025

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

Tang Shengxing Tea Packaging Packaging Monday, 15 December 2025

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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Stacked Glyphs Characters Typography

Stack Glyphs Characters Typography Graphic Sunday, 14 December 2025

Stacked Glyphs

In Chinese culture, a special type of character called Stacked Character refers to the character formed by overlapped glyphs. Most of these superimposed characters are uncommon and are gradually replaced by commonly used characters nowadays. So that Stack Glyphs constructed the characters using graphical symbols, collected these lost chinese characters.

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