Bronze Giftware · 2025
House of Smaragd Advent Box
by Rilind Hoxha and Haris Murich
- Bronze A' Design Award 2025 in Giftware
- CLIENT: Smaragd 1969 / Why Agency
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 23,813
- Verification code E3BBB4C764 · Verify this award
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About House of Smaragd Advent Box
House of Smaragd Advent Calendar is a structured countdown box made from ecological paper and sustainable materials, designed for repeated use. It contains four individually packaged jewelry pieces, each secured in separate compartments. Packaging is recyclable and reusable, reducing environmental impact. The box design allows for controlled access to each compartment, maintaining the element of surprise while keeping the items protected.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
House of Smaragd Advent Box is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. House of Smaragd Advent Box is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. House of Smaragd Advent Box splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- House of Smaragd Advent Calendar is a structured countdown box made from ecological paper and sustainable materials, designed for repeated use. It contains four individually packaged jewelry pieces, each secured in separate compartments. Packaging is recyclable and reusable, reducing environmental impact. The box design allows for controlled access to each compartment, maintaining the element of surprise while keeping the items protected.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 164x164x42mm, Gold plated & ecologically colored recycled paper.
- Tags
- Christmas, Advent, Gifts, Jewelry, Marketing, Packaging.
- Production Technology
- Sketched and Produced in Adobe Illustrator. Print execution done by hand.
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part was what the theme of the advent box was gonna be.
The first themes were including miracles and surprises, but then we opted for a royalty like direction, for example House of Tudor.
The second hardest part was creating an unique blueprint for the box, which was largely assisted by the production facility. - Research
- The research was mostly done online with some physical inspiration from vintage advent boxes found on flea markets.
- Inspiration
- The advent box takes inspiration from vintage advent boxes, incorporating a classic multi-compartment structure that enhances the anticipation of weekly reveals. Traditional advent calendars featured individually sealed sections, a concept replicated here with four separate compartments, each containing a unique jewelry piece.
- Project Duration
- The project piloted in 2023 for the 2024 season, and an initial prototype was released in limited quantities. The final presented version was produced in November 2024, and released on the 9th of December 2024. Production was primarily in Why Agency offices, while execution was done by AJ-Graf Matbaa in Skopje. The product was available for sale online and physically in the Smaragd stores in Skopje.
- Operation Flow
- The front part is opened and there are four boxes inside, which are removable. Each of the boxes contains a piece of jewelry.
- Image Credits
- Filip Shutarov
