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Lumin Mechanical Pencil

Alexis Zapata Mechanical Pencil Art Supplies Monday, 1 December 2025

Lumin

Lumin is a design made 100 percent from alluminium. Without a mechanism, the elasticity of the material is used to hold the graphite. It is produced using different numerical control machining processes, with a manual finish in each one of them. Identified with its engraved serial number and accompanied by packaging that authenticates its originality. Its designer wanted to represent in Lumin the emotion of emptiness. A fragment of the brilliance that lives in each person, not perfect but authentic. In this way Lumin invites introspection and personal reflection.

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Luna Alpina Packaging

Arman Auzhanov Packaging Packaging Sunday, 30 November 2025

Luna Alpina

Arman Auzhanov, designer from Kazakhstan, created a complete vodka project for premium sector. He used images of Moon and Space as a clear semantic code based on modern technology materials. The positioning is based by two USP: emotional (vodka is produced in accordance with the phases of the Moon) and rational (it is cleaned using Moonstone filtration). The personal shaped bottle has debossing as lunar craters. For the label he used material with microcrystals making the dynamic image of the starry sky, and Lens Fresnel for the image of the Moon. Futuristic gift packaging completes the image.

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Kerloso Wine Packaging

Langcer Lee Packaging Packaging Saturday, 29 November 2025

Kerloso Wine

Kerloso Wine is a packaging design for a red wine from Chile. The label shows the scene sailors saw when they first landed on Easter Island, including stone statues, a volcano, flowers, a deer and birds. The bottle is wrapped in natural imitation rice paper, bound with straw rope and decorated with a piece of natural bluestone, the same material as the Moai statues. The top of the paper is burned by real flame, so each mark is unique. Different colors mark different grape types. The wrapped bottle stands about 35 centimeters high.

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Li Beer Packaging

China Resources Snow Breweries Packaging Packaging Friday, 28 November 2025

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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3D Embossed Book

Jesvin Yeo Book Print Thursday, 27 November 2025

3D Embossed

The book uses 3D embossing to document and highlight the intricate details of the works meticulously crafted by traditional Singaporean artisans, from paper dragon boats and Indian jewelry to Peranakan beaded shoes. The color pages symbolize the rise and fall of traditional crafts, as the industry begins its developmental period (dull) to its golden age (yellow) and gradually fades (white). A pastel chalk is attached for readers to shade the pages and discover the lost arts of this intangible cultural heritage of Singapore, as only we humans can safeguard, support and bring it back.

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MontGras Handcrafted Wine Packaging

Ximena Ureta Wine Packaging Packaging Wednesday, 26 November 2025

MontGras Handcrafted

MontGras Handcrafted is a wine label series created for five Chilean wines made from rare grape varieties harvested in 2020. Each label merges two pieces of art, the signature of the winemaker and a different typographic treatment of the vintage number, while a shared graphic line unites the five designs. The labels are printed on self-adhesive, uncoated, water-resistant paper that resists aging and ultraviolet light. Gold foil, die cutting, silkscreen varnish with relief and a matte protective varnish complete the finish. A wax capsule seals each bottle.

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