Yihe Dim Sum
Package Design for Beijing Jiaotong University
To showcase the essence of the Summer Palace, four of its most iconic sites have been selected to represent the four flavors of the packaging. The illustrations seamlessly blend traditional Chinese architecture with a pop art style, incorporating elements from traditional paintings in collage form. This approach creates a visually impactful impression, setting a new paradigm and trend in traditional Chinese pastry packaging that resonates aesthetically with the younger generation.
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Unique Properties
To showcase the essence of the Summer Palace, four of its most iconic sites have been selected to represent the four flavors of the packaging. The illustrations seamlessly blend traditional Chinese architecture with a pop art style, incorporating elements from traditional paintings in collage form. This approach creates a visually impactful impression, setting a new paradigm and trend in traditional Chinese pastry packaging that resonates aesthetically with the younger generation.
Tags
The Summer Palace, pop style, new Chinese style, oriental aesthetics, traditional renewal, packaging design, brand design.
Production Technology
The outer packaging box of "The Summer Palace Pastry " adopts UV technology and contains four small boxes. The box uses a special paper interlayer and a sulfuric acid paper compartment, the side text adopts the bronzing printing process, and the edge adopts the die-cutting process to ensure the hardness, durability and aesthetics of the box.
Design Challenge
The biggest challenge in the creative process is how to combine traditional architecture with pastry packaging in a modern style, how to increase the connection between traditional court pastries and young consumers, and at the same time enhance their attention and love for Traditional Chinese architectural culture.
Project Duration
The project started in Beijing in March 2023, completed in Beijing in December 2023, and was listed in the Summer Palace Scenic Area in Beijing in January 2024.
Operation Flow
The product is sold simultaneously in the Summer Palace's offline gift shop and official website, and visitors can also buy it in the park when they visit the Summer Palace, and can be used as a souvenir for their own consumption and gifts for relatives and friends.
Research
Type: Packaging design Goal: To design a pastry gift box with the traditional cultural characteristics and modern design style of the Summer Palace Methods: Fieldwork, questionnaire survey, brand research, hand-drawing, design software Ps, Ai were used to create. Result: The famous buildings of the Summer Palace and the elements in Chinese paintings were combined to create illustrations with national tide style and pop style, which were used as the main visual of pastry packaging, presenting a design with new Chinese and oriental aesthetics. Results/Impact: At present, this series of products have been listed in the Summer Palace Scenic Area in Beijing, which has received extensive social attention and good social evaluation, injected new cultural innovation vitality into the Summer Palace Scenic Area, and provided new ideas, new paradigms and new trends for traditional Chinese pastry packaging.
Inspiration
The Summer Palace has embraced the recent cultural trend of creative cuisine by introducing its Beijing-style pastry brand - YIHE DIM SUM. The brand aims to elevate the products' value and promote them through thoughtful design. Anticipating 20 million visitors in 2024, the Summer Palace envisions YIHE DIM SUM as a medium through which consumers can not only savor the elegance of the palace pastries but also visually and spiritually connect with the rich cultural heritage they represent.
Image Credits
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Project Overview
Yihe Dim Sum Package Design has been a Bronze winner in the Packaging Design award category in the year 2023 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Bronze Recognition
Beijing Jiaotong University was recognized with the coveted Bronze A' Design Award in 2024, a testament to excellence of their work Yihe Dim Sum Package Design.
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Beijing Jiaotong University Unveils YIHE DIM SUM Packaging Design Inspired by the Summer Palace
Beijing Jiaotong University introduces YIHE DIM SUM, a Beijing-style pastry brand, featuring packaging inspired by the Summer Palace, set to launch in 2024.
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