Golden A' Design Award Winner 2025
PepsiCo Design and Innovation's Pepsi Electric 2024 Influencer Kit represents a distinguished achievement in experiential packaging design, elevating the conventional beverage container into an object of ritualized discovery and sensory engagement. The work demonstrates masterful understanding of theatrical presentation traditions, employing the trifold reveal structure that traces lineage through sacred triptych altarpieces and luxury case presentations, here reimagined for contemporary brand activation contexts. The chromatic commitment to saturated electric blue creates immediate visual impact while establishing unmistakable brand identification through color alone, a strategy that reflects sophisticated understanding of chromatic psychology and consumer memory formation. The central bottle's sculptural treatment merits particular attention, featuring flowing organic indentations that suggest liquid movement frozen in dimensional form, creating surfaces that interact dynamically with illumination and invite tactile exploration. The concentric circular motifs radiating from the bottle position function as visual amplification, suggesting energy emanation, sonic resonance, or ripple effects that metaphorically extend the product's influence outward into space. Technical execution demonstrates precision in material selection and finishing, with the interplay between matte exterior surfaces and luminous interior treatment creating dramatic contrast that heightens the unveiling experience. The reflective ground surface transforms the presentation into doubled spectacle, suggesting infinite extension and amplifying the ceremonial quality of the reveal moment. This work invites consideration of how contemporary packaging design transcends mere product protection to become narrative vehicle and experience architecture, transforming the act of receiving into memorable event that extends brand relationship beyond transaction into emotional territory.
Pepsi recently unveiled a new logo and visual identity system: the first update of the iconic Pepsi globe logo in 14 years. To mark the historic occasion and the brand's 125th anniversary, they released Pepsi Electric, a limited time only zero-sugar cola inspired by the new brand color of electric blue. The unexpected design centered on the iconic Pepsi Globe and Pulse, presented in a special box featuring a dramatic light-up label highlighting the unique blue color of Pepsi Electric. The bold design of Pepsi Electric reflects the challenger spirit and Thirsty for More attitude.