Each country has different customs and consumption characteristics, and if you want to select products for different countries and regions, you must first understand the local culture and pay attention to the preferences, taboos and religious beliefs of consumers in different countries. Combined with local customs, it is possible to find a good category. The following is a small editor for everyone to sort out some of the favorite and taboo product patterns of various countries, everyone claims Oh! In Saudi Arabia, it is strictly forbidden to print wine bottles, churches, cross patterns or shapes on stationery, and those who violate them will confiscate and destroy them. In Buddhist countries such as Thailand, white elephants are regarded as mascots and prefer elephant motifs. Packaging shape can be used in green plants or bright colors, not suitable
Each country has different customs and consumption characteristics, and if you want to select products for different countries and regions, you must first understand the local culture and pay attention to the preferences, taboos and religious beliefs of consumers in different countries. Combined with local customs, it is possible to find a good category.
The following is a small editor for everyone to sort out some of the favorite and taboo product patterns of various countries, everyone claims Oh!
In Saudi Arabia, it is strictly forbidden to print wine bottles, churches, cross patterns or shapes on stationery, and those who violate them will confiscate and destroy them.
In Buddhist countries such as Thailand, white elephants are regarded as mascots and prefer elephant motifs. Packaging shape can be used in green plants or bright colors, and it is not appropriate to use religious images such as Buddha as patterns.
Turks love green, white, and crimson, and purple and yellow are forbidden because yellow marks death. In Turkey, you should be cautious about using green triangle graphics, green triangle graphics are the symbol of free supplies, but also avoid pigs, cats, pandas as patterns.
Egyptians like pyramids, Islamic symbols, Persian art motifs, and can be designed on goods. But Egypt often used the lotus flower and the crocodile as sacred totems, and avoided using them commercially. Egypt avoids the use of panda motifs and regards blue as a symbol of the devil.
Malaysian Muslim consumers prefer the star and moon patterns, preferring bright colors such as red and orange, and yellow is used by the royal family and is not easily used in clothing and commercial packaging.
Indians regard cattle as holy relics, and when they walk on the road, they can also encounter the spectacle of "people giving the cow first", they cannot use cattle patterns in packaging and decoration, nor can they use pigs, roosters and palm trees, and roses are mourning supplies and taboos.
Japan is a country that has always been very demanding on design, and the packaging pattern design likes the patterns of cherry blossoms, pines, bamboo, plums, turtles, children and ducks, and it is not appropriate to use the royal pattern of 16-petal chrysanthemums. Japanese people appreciate Roman characters and like to use words to express packaging techniques on packaging. Lotus flowers are mourning flowers in Japan, japanese people regard it as unlucky, avoid using lotus flowers as design patterns, Japanese also taboo fox, badger, yellow-eyed cat pattern.
The British mean that the elephant is a stupid and useless burden, comparing the goat to an undeserved man, the rooster "COCK" as a "vulgar" explanation, thinking that the peacock is an obscene bird, daffodils have the meaning of "too much self-appreciation", so avoid the above mentioned style patterns, in addition, the United Kingdom also avoids the use of human portraits as design patterns. One of the most popular categories in the UK is crystals, which are related to feng shui horoscopes, and even the British will put one or two crystal skulls when they are buried.
The French believe that walnuts, green flowers, paper flowers, chrysanthemums, and azaleas are unlucky, that yellow flowers are disloyal, that peacocks are evil birds, that they hate crane motifs, and that spades are symbols of the dead, and that the styles mentioned above are taboo. In addition, French women love pink, men like blue, avoid using dark green (former Nazi military uniform color).
Germany avoided symbols similar to the Nazi "swastika" or its legions, as well as religious symbols and hammer and sickle motifs. Germans generally believe that black indicates generosity and composure, but the south prefers bright colors and avoids brown red.
Italy avoids chrysanthemums as trademark patterns, food and toy packaging prefer bright and eye-catching colors, clothing, cosmetics and high-end packaging often use light tones.
Romanians regard the circle as a symbol of beauty, and the triangle can express both the front and the reverse. In Romania, ring and triangle packaging is easy to attract consumers, and people mostly prefer white, red, green and other primary colors.
Czechs like red, white, blue, regard the red triangle pattern as a toxic sign, packaging design should not use this pattern.
Americans pay great attention to the pattern and color of commodity packaging, like the image of the animal image, especially like the eagle (national bird), lion, crocodile and other birds of prey and beasts, the dinosaur, monkey pattern is also quite good. But they avoid using the heads of precious animals as trademarks, which will lead to protests and boycotts from wildlife conservation societies. Food packaging using yellow and brown, there is a full, fresh meaning, generally do not use black packaging, seasonal strong gift packaging often refer to the month of the table color, 12 months are: gray, dark blue, silver, yellow, lilac, pink, azure blue, dark green, golden yellow, brown, red.
The sorrows and joys of people all over the world are not completely the same, and the designs that Chinese people love abroad may not be able to attract customers, and may even cause disgust. Therefore, before doing foreign trade selection, it is a very important thing to take a moment to grasp the local cultural customs, not only to be able to do what it likes, quickly integrate into the local market, but also avoid violating its taboos, causing unnecessary losses such as customer loss.