A\u2019 Design Award<\/a>, Wu\u2019s packaging for traditional Chinese mooncakes looks like your standard tin box. With cultural elements evoking the beauty of the Mid-Autumn festival, this box forms an integral part of a ritualistic gifting experience, where you visit your loved ones with mooncakes, wishing them good health and prosperity. The packaging for a mooncake plays a simple dual-purpose role \u2013 it encases the cakes for safe transport, but it also serves as a visual signifier of quality \u2013 a good packaging is indicative of a well-thought gift. However, that dual-purpose role ends once the moon-cakes are consumed. Wu\u2019s packaging, however, turns the lid of the mooncake box into a traditional paper lantern, giving it life even after you\u2019ve consumed the dessert.<\/p>\nDesigner: Yanlun Wu<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Lanterns form an integral part of the Mid-Autumn festival too. Apart from eating mooncakes, gazing at the moon, and bonding with family, people also light paper lanterns which are either hung outside houses, or sent cascading into the sky. Wu\u2019s design aligns with the former. Each food-safe tin box comes with a lid that has a foldable lantern pressed into it. Once you\u2019re done with the mooncakes, simply unfold the lantern and you\u2019ve got a traditional keepsake that allows you to enjoy Wu\u2019s packaging well beyond its original purpose.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the beauty of what Wu\u2019s trying to achieve here \u2013 giving the package a third purpose and a second life. Each lantern comes adorned with traditional Chinese motifs that represent the Mid-Autumn festival. \u201cThis innovative dual-lifecycle design combats waste by turning disposable packaging into a lasting decorative object, seamlessly blending traditional Chinese mid-autumn symbolism with modern sustainable practice,\u201d Wu says.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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