Awards Overview for Tiago Russo
| Award Type | Count |
|---|---|
| Platinum A' Design Award | 2 |
| Gold A' Design Award | 5 |
| Silver A' Design Award | 6 |
| Bronze A' Design Award | 1 |
| Iron A' Design Award | 1 |
| Runner-up A' Design Award | 0 |
| Total Awards | 15 |
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Career Highlights of Tiago Russo
Notable Achievements
- Total Awards: 15
- Total Score: 66
- Global Ranking: #26 Worldwide
- Top Award: Platinum ( 2 × )
Areas of Expertise
- Packaging Design
- Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Limited Edition and Custom Design
Top Designs
| Design Name | Category | Award | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mulong | Packaging Design | Gold | 2024 |
| The Storyteller | Packaging Design | Platinum | 2023 |
| The Niall | Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design | Silver | 2024 |
| The Maple 7 | Packaging Design | Silver | 2024 |
| Le Chateau XO | Packaging Design | Silver | 2024 |
Featured Designs by Tiago Russo
The Mulong
The Mulong brings together the Chinese Year of The Dragon values and immersion into a perfect merging of sensorial, intimate whiskey tasting experience, hidden away in a box that brings together the u...
Category: Packaging Design
Award: Gold (2024)
The Storyteller
The Storyteller goal is to become an augmented immersive and personal, intimist experience, through a vessel that must be held in one’s hand, fully appreciated upon glancing and handling, feeling th...
Category: Packaging Design
Award: Platinum (2023)
The Niall
The Niall was designed as the ultimate tasting glass for the cognac aficionado, where every element has been carefully conceived to allow the drinker to taste and nose the cognac. The stem allows the ...
Category: Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design
Award: Silver (2024)
The Maple 7
The Maple 7 brings together a design merger between the usual take on luxury and experiential elevation, joining and completing this unique experience with Canadian rye and maple, elements subtly tran...
Category: Packaging Design
Award: Silver (2024)
Le Chateau XO
Le Chateau XO brings together elegance, luxury, and an elevation of the cognac throughout bold, striking details that bring the user’s attention and highlights the liquid and the vessel itself at th...
Category: Packaging Design
Award: Silver (2024)
The Donn
The Donn symbolizes the youngest of The Craft Irish Whiskey Co. range; a gateway to the core values of the brand as of an immersive experience around this or any product that CIWC develops. No accesso...
Category: Packaging Design
Award: Gold (2023)
The Brollach
The Brollach is a disruptor. Born of tradition but unbound by convention, it is a whiskey that is at once a proud product of Irish history, yet charts a new path. It is the culmination of a long and p...
Category: Packaging Design
Award: Gold (2023)
The Emerald Isle
A timeless art statement and what is today the most luxurious and rarest Irish whiskey ever created. A record-breaking highly collectable set that brings together immersive, sensorial design and craft...
Category: Packaging Design
Award: Platinum (2022)
The Finn
The Finn was designed as the ultimate tasting glass for the whiskey aficionado, where every element has been carefully conceived to allow the drinker to taste and nose the whiskey. The stem allows the...
Category: Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design
Award: Silver (2023)
Farol
Created by Katia Martins and Tiago Russo, Farol is the materialization of years of studies and tests in order to achieve a great lighting solution, environment-friendly, and that could create the most...
Category: Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
Award: Silver (2023)
Shay Vsop
Crafted with Shannon Sharpe's input and inspired by Mary Porter's heritage, Shay Vsop enters the market as a product that is bold yet elegant, disruptive, a true statement piece for cognac l...
Category: Packaging Design
Award: Silver (2023)
The Taoscan
To stand out from the crowd you need to be extraordinary. And The Taoscan is no ordinary product: there is no whiskey on earth like it. Designed for the finest venues, stealing the limelight on the ba...
Category: Packaging Design
Award: Gold (2022)
The Devil's Keep
The inaugural release from The Craft Irish Whiskey Co., The Devil’s Keep Experience Box has been created with the most luxurious attention to every single detail, embodied by a dark stained oak fini...
Category: Packaging Design
Award: Gold (2021)
The Érimón
The Erimon was designed as the ultimate tasting glass for the whiskey aficionado, where every element has been carefully conceived to allow the drinker to taste and nose the whiskey. The stemless desi...
Category: Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design
Award: Iron (2023)
The Aodh
The Aodh inhabits a world of darkness and glamour, where lights are low and passions soar. Drawing on this mysticism, it tells of a time after dark, its form a mesmerising helix that bewitches and enc...
Category: Limited Edition and Custom Design
Award: Bronze (2022)
About Tiago Russo
Biography
Tiago Russo is the Chief Design Officer at The Craft Irish Whiskey Co., a premium & luxury Irish spirits brand that aims to elevate and return to Ireland its former glory and reputation as home of the best whiskies in the world. Building an empire with a global mind-set and Irish heart.
Over the last decade Russo has designed for some of the most respectable brands in the world. His impressive portfolio spans the luxury lifestyle domain from spirits to cosmetics, automotive to timepieces including: The Macallan, Dewar’s, The Dalmore, Craigellachie, Bacardi, Louis Vuitton, Patek Philippe, Coty Inc. and McLaren, to name a few.
Russo has been obsessed with detailed design for much of his career and holds a Master’s degree in Product Design with Automotive Design specialisation. With over a decade of experience implausibly dedicated to design, Russo is the ultimate perfectionist, always focused on making ideas a reality with a spirit of purpose, accuracy and finesse. Mastering the full design process from concept through to production, Russo is continuously immersing himself in culture and innovation to create pioneering, meaningful designs.
Revelation Designer of the Year in 2014 and collecting several awards and accolades over the last decade, Russo has been labelled one of the greatest luxury spirits and packaging designers of today. His design work for The Craft Irish Whiskey Co.; ‘The Devil’s Keep’ is an ultra-rare whiskey and has, since its launch in December 2020, attained the world record title for the most expensive inaugural whiskey bottle ever sold, and the overall winner of the Luxury Packaging Awards and the A’ Design Awards, marking another set of achievements on Russo’s creations within luxury product design, joined by the more recent record-breaking and award-winning creations The Brollach, The Emerald Isle, in collaboration with Fabergé, The Taoscán or The Aodh.
Areas of Expertise
- Packaging Design
- Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Limited Edition and Custom Design
Country
Portugal
Statistics and Insights
Performance Metrics
Key Statistics
- Total Score: 66
- Total Awards: 15
- Global Ranking: #26
- Performance Score: 10.00 / 10
Insights
Tiago Russo's performance score of 10.00 places them in the top tier of designers worldwide. This score, which ranges from 0 to 10, reflects not just the quantity but also the quality of awards received.
With a total of 15 awards and a global ranking of #26, Tiago Russo has demonstrated consistent excellence in Packaging Design, Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design, Lighting Products and Fixtures Design and other areas.
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