How to express the sense of taste in food packaging design

As for the strength of taste, that is, the richness and lightness of taste, designers mainly rely on the strength and brightness of color to express. Examples include the following: using crimson and red to express sweet foods, using crimson to express sweet foods, and orange to show less sweet foods.
There are also some foods or drinks that express their taste directly with the color of the product that people are accustomed to. For example, dark brown (commonly known as brown) is a special color for coffee and chocolate.

In summary, we can understand that color is the main method for designers to express food taste, but there are also some taste is not easy to use color to express, such as: bitter, salty, hemp, spicy and so on. Designers need to use a special font design and packaging atmosphere to render the design from the spiritual and cultural level to express these tastes, so that consumers can recognize the transmitted taste information at a glance.

Food taste performance is a product of human understanding of things and the transformation of the world. With the rapid development of the market economy and the rapid advancement of science and technology, the performance of food taste will become more and more abundant.

Shen Liang (Executive Director of Shanghai Business Planning Co., Ltd.)

Use "sense of feelings" to express "taste"

There is a kind of rhetoric in literature called "sense of feelings". The popular explanation is to state the unspeakable situation in another comparable form.

The reason why "sense of feeling" is mentioned is because in the field of packaging design, this phenomenon also exists in fact, and it can be used properly to promote the promotion of products. Especially in the field of food packaging, the use of such methods is even more apparent.

The biggest difference between food packaging and daily consumer goods packaging is that when food products express product attributes, they must fully express their appetite and perceptual association. If they only stay in the design expression, they are “what” without further deepening. How "how" is expressed, then this product is on the shelf, and sales can be imagined without advertising support.

If the company is carrying out food packaging design, it first considers the performance of two levels in the graphic design: the "mouthfeel" and the "tongue sensation," and on the basis of these two points, it will further proceed from the packaging structure and materials. Use, industry standards and other aspects continue to improve. The "mouthfeel" here refers to the chewing sensations, such as being soft, sticky, firm, crunchy, smooth, etc., all belonging to the category of taste; and the perceptual tastes such as sweetness, sourness, saltiness, and spicyness belong to the range of the sense of tongue. Most of the packaging's graphic design only pays attention to the tongue, but often ignores the taste. As a result, it has not been able to present the characteristics of the product and cannot be said to be a lack.

Through the rational use of color and the interrelationship of colors, it is easy to express the “tongue” of food. On this basis, continue to use the "sense of sensation" technique to express the taste as much as possible. To express the taste, not only through the use of color, more can be expressed through the special design of the form, material, and graphics of the packaging container. For example, cool colors can be used in combination with hard-edged graphics and broken lines to express crunchy foods. To fully express the taste and tongue of food, apart from relying on color and graphic elements, the role of photos is also very powerful, especially for foods with a relatively good form of their own products. Through detailed photographic images, product details are displayed to stimulate purchasers. Appetite.

There are many excellent cases on the market. Nihon Kirin launched two tea drinks last year and this year: raw tea and tea. The two tea beverages are completely different in terms of shelf performance. Looking at these two packages from a consumer perspective, you can feel that raw tea is a cool type of tea beverage, which can produce a refreshing drinking sensation and is more intense in taste than the smell of tea. The smell of tea is slightly sweet, but it is a taste of tea.

In fact, it is true that the two tea beverages presented completely different perception associations through packaging. From the bottle type and bottle body color of raw tea, its product attributes and performance performance points can be felt, and the smell of blue tea bottle bottle stickers design and transparent bottle body clearly means that consumers can have more room for taste. .

Rethinking China's liquor packaging is too vulgar and difficult to say. It is hard to come up with several packages for the purpose of entry. It seems that as long as it is a wine package, it has to be printed with gold cards, and then it runs out of hot stamping, spot colors, bumps, lasers, sandblasting, etc. Series printing process and then fast. In fact, even with the same liquor, the taste is not the same, some mellow, smooth entrance; some of the alcohol is not miscellaneous, the entrance is strong; some more after the entrance of the aftertaste; some of the more heavy wine of the specific. But now from the packaging, almost all of them are like one. In fact, in the packaging design of wine, it is entirely possible to change the concept and use the “sense of sensation” effect to fully express the characteristics of different flavors of wine.

In addition, the proper use of packaging containers can make products produce different visual effects. The sprite--crystal-brilliant, cool-sensing feeling stems from its smooth packaging container shape and the combination of grass green color and abstract water marks, which produced good results. It is much more difficult for mineral water with high product homogeneity to show differences in taste. However, the light blue bottle of the Nestle mineral water has a much higher grade than the normal white bottle. The pure and refreshing taste revealed by the refraction is undoubted.

Wang Ning (Shenzhen Chen Xiaoming Corporate Image Design Company)

Designing a "taste sense" with Chinese characteristics

The "taste sense" of a product should be a unified design of the designer's design of the product's visual and psychological effects to consumers.

A food package, first brought to the consumer is the first visual and psychological feelings - sense of taste, its quality directly affects the product sales market. Undoubtedly, packaging is an art that promotes goods to consumers. It is a bridge between goods and consumers. It transforms the external and intrinsic characteristics of food into a vivid design style in order to stand out in a wide range of shelves. Attract consumers' attention.

The special understanding of the specific taste and value of a product embodies the designer's aesthetic tendency and shows the designer's creativity in formal processing. The packaging design can be said to be the digestive agent that the product packaging brings to the consumer's first impression, combined with the characteristics of the product itself. Packaging design is actually a process of interaction with customers. To attract consumers, we must make products with a sense of taste! It is not a single design of art or design, but a composite discipline based on marketing, consumer mind, material technology, three-dimensional composition and plane composition. To make products with a sense of taste, we need to focus on changes in the market, changes in retail terminals, changes in consumer fashion, and changes in materials technology. These changes brought new space for packaging design to incorporate brand culture and make sense of the taste of the goods!

Packaging design is performed within a limited picture, which is a spatial limitation. At the same time, the packaging is sold to the buyer for a brief period of time. This is a limitation of time. This kind of space-time restrictions requires that packaging design cannot be blind and complete, and that everything should be equal to nothing. The design must be "simple but not simple, simple but not monotonous," and the key to the determination of the three aspects of the goods, consumption, and sales of relevant information to compare and refine, to improve the product's sense of taste and sales.

I think everyone should have seen some Japanese packaging. Their designs generally give people a purer and cleaner feeling. They use the essence of design and products to be artistic, and they are fashionable and practical. One thing they are worth learning is that they combine East and West cultures to design. As China's design should also have Chinese characteristics, it depends on how we use it flexibly. Learning is the way we need to go now. Only in this way can we design a fashionable packaging boutique with Chinese characteristics of “taste sense”!

Zhu Ning (Department of Design, School of Fine Arts, Hunan Normal University)

Food packaging causes visual taste hints by visual

When you walk into a supermarket and face a wide range of foods, what makes you buy this, not that? In addition to advertising, price and other factors, food packaging is also a very important factor. The color of many foods is not aesthetically appealing, but it must be represented by various techniques to make the shapes and colors more perfect and rich. Successful food packaging can not only quickly catch the eye of consumers, but also make people think that the food in the package is fresh and delicious, resulting in an immediate purchase impulse. This is where the taste of food packaging hints at work.

Psychology refers to the sensation in other areas caused by a feeling as a common feeling. It is based on this principle that the association and expectation of the taste of the food in the package caused by seeing a certain food package. What kind of food packaging can get people's good feelings and produce good taste hints?

Start with the color. Color is the most important part of food packaging design, and it is also the information that consumers can receive most quickly. It sets a tone for the whole package. When we see a certain color, we remind people of all kinds of things or think of things related to color. Some colors can give people a good taste hint, and some colors are just the opposite. For example, gray and black people seem to have a bitter feeling, dark blue, blue looks a bit salty, dark green gives a sour feeling ... These colors used in food packaging must be more cautious.

Of course, it doesn’t mean all food