A Taiwanese design company has won several awards at this year’s Red Dot Communication Design Awards, including a “Best of the Best” title given only to the top designs.
Rice Cake the winner of the Best of the Best award was designed by Proad Identity. It features ornate prints of carp on two sides of a box that contains niangao — sticky rice cakes usually eaten during the Lunar New Year.
When the boxes are fully opened, “the carp look as if they are swimming,” Taiwanese designer and president of Proad Identity Jennifer Tsai said.
Instead of rendering the carp black or multicolored as is usually the case in Chinese ink paintings, Tsai used white and outlined them in gold to give the fish a new look.
Tsai said she chose fish as a symbol because fish, or yu (魚) in Chinese, is a homophone for abundance.
Tsai’s company also won six other Red Dot awards, including for a box containing a book written by former US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and a biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel that shows the profiles of the two women on the outside.
The other winning designs featured gift boxes for food items and other products. One is decorated with Chinese embroidery in the shape of a phoenix coronet and another has laser-engraved images of traditional Chinese door latches.
Among the 7,096 works from 49 countries competing in 16 categories in the awards, held in Germany, 101 were given the Best of the Best title, while another 569 won Red Dot awards, according to the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, the organization which hosts the competition.
The winners of the Best of the Best category qualify for the Red Dot Grand Prix, the highest individual award in the competition, at the Red Dot gala in Berlin on Oct. 24.
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