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Creative Tea Bag Designs
Monday, May 10, 2010 1:17:53 PM
I´m definitely a tea person. I love drinking it especially when it´s dark and cold outside, and I also drink it cold in summer.
Anyway, as a graphic designer, I always love it when a product has a creative and interesting package design, and in the last few years, there´s been a huge change in the tea industry. No more boring tea bags!!!!! Great branding is about making your product experience a memorable one.
Here are some of the best examples around the world:
TEA FORTÉ
Peter Hewitt, graphic designer founder of Tea Forte in 2003, created the company’s signature pyramid-shaped nylon bag. A very interesting combination of geometric and organic: tall polyhedral infuser packs, each with a disarmingly natural-looking leaf/sprout tag.
Simple, elegant and beautiful design. The web site is definitely worth visiting, not only because of the innovative packaging (gift sets, collections, and even cocktails!), but because of it´s design too.
DONKEY PRODUCTS
German design studio Donkey Products have new lines (Royal Tea, Sex, Tea & Rock n' Roll, Soccer Legends, Genious and InsaniTea, and lots more ), decorated with famous characters. You can have a “Tea Party” with you favorite characters. Very funny!
MAUM TEA BAGS
WDaru Studio has created a funny and innovative tea bag design called Maum Tea Bag. This collection contains several tea bags, each with a different character and personality.
ORIGAMI TEA BAGS
Here´s an interesting packaging concept by the Russian designer Natalia Ponomareva: Figured Tea Bags. These tea bags created guided by the principles of origami. While the tea infuses the bird or the shape gradually expands. The idea is so poetic! These tea bags are sadly not for sale.
TPOD
Tpod is a teabag design concept by Elisabeth Soos that adds fun to the tea making process. After removing a tpod tea bag from the box, you unfold the tag which then becomes a boat that floats on your soon-to-be-ready cup of delicious tea.
TEA FOR HEALTH
The House Cafe, one of the coolest chains of restaurants in Istanbul (in terms of interior design, food design and music design), tried to design packaging for herbal health-tea and associate it with a healthy life style. They placed cut-out images of people doing outdoor sports attached to the strings of their herbal tea-bags. These tea-bags were served at the House Cafés, but after the promotion, people loved them and wanted to buy them to take home. Designed by TBWA Istambul.
ITEA
Sugart's innovative iTea wand is a single serving tea package with a built in filter system. It´s designed to just drop into hot water and brew. The filtration system allows the tea leaves' flavor carrying fats and oils to be dispersed into hot water, allowing a more intense flavor than traditional oil absorbing tea bags. The design is simple, clean and quite nice.
HANGER TEA
Very creative and cute tea bags by Soon Mo Kang are shaped like T-shirts with a hanger that hangs on the tea cup, and color-coded for different varieties. I can’t think of a better or more obvious way to pack teabags than this hanger & T-shirt design! GREAT IDEA!!! Still a project, so I´m sorry to say you can´t buy them yet.
Anyway, as a graphic designer, I always love it when a product has a creative and interesting package design, and in the last few years, there´s been a huge change in the tea industry. No more boring tea bags!!!!! Great branding is about making your product experience a memorable one.
Here are some of the best examples around the world:
TEA FORTÉ
Peter Hewitt, graphic designer founder of Tea Forte in 2003, created the company’s signature pyramid-shaped nylon bag. A very interesting combination of geometric and organic: tall polyhedral infuser packs, each with a disarmingly natural-looking leaf/sprout tag.
Simple, elegant and beautiful design. The web site is definitely worth visiting, not only because of the innovative packaging (gift sets, collections, and even cocktails!), but because of it´s design too.
DONKEY PRODUCTS
German design studio Donkey Products have new lines (Royal Tea, Sex, Tea & Rock n' Roll, Soccer Legends, Genious and InsaniTea, and lots more ), decorated with famous characters. You can have a “Tea Party” with you favorite characters. Very funny!
MAUM TEA BAGS
WDaru Studio has created a funny and innovative tea bag design called Maum Tea Bag. This collection contains several tea bags, each with a different character and personality.
ORIGAMI TEA BAGS
Here´s an interesting packaging concept by the Russian designer Natalia Ponomareva: Figured Tea Bags. These tea bags created guided by the principles of origami. While the tea infuses the bird or the shape gradually expands. The idea is so poetic! These tea bags are sadly not for sale.
TPOD
Tpod is a teabag design concept by Elisabeth Soos that adds fun to the tea making process. After removing a tpod tea bag from the box, you unfold the tag which then becomes a boat that floats on your soon-to-be-ready cup of delicious tea.
TEA FOR HEALTH
The House Cafe, one of the coolest chains of restaurants in Istanbul (in terms of interior design, food design and music design), tried to design packaging for herbal health-tea and associate it with a healthy life style. They placed cut-out images of people doing outdoor sports attached to the strings of their herbal tea-bags. These tea-bags were served at the House Cafés, but after the promotion, people loved them and wanted to buy them to take home. Designed by TBWA Istambul.
ITEA
Sugart's innovative iTea wand is a single serving tea package with a built in filter system. It´s designed to just drop into hot water and brew. The filtration system allows the tea leaves' flavor carrying fats and oils to be dispersed into hot water, allowing a more intense flavor than traditional oil absorbing tea bags. The design is simple, clean and quite nice.
HANGER TEA
Very creative and cute tea bags by Soon Mo Kang are shaped like T-shirts with a hanger that hangs on the tea cup, and color-coded for different varieties. I can’t think of a better or more obvious way to pack teabags than this hanger & T-shirt design! GREAT IDEA!!! Still a project, so I´m sorry to say you can´t buy them yet.
So you need a Typeface...
Thursday, April 29, 2010 7:09:50 AM
With this diagram, designers will have it easier to choose a Typeface for their projects.
Funny way to show the difficulty designers usually have when they have to choose a Typeface.
In my opinion, there are a couple of reasons why this task is so hard:
1. Most of the designers don´t have a good knowledge of Typography, so it makes it quite difficult to work when you don´t really control the instruments you have.
2. There are soooooooo many different Typefaces you sometimes get lost trying to decide which one to use.
3. Some designers believe that if the Typeface is complex, weird and original, it will definitely look better. This is ALMOST NEVER the case.
4. Some designers don´t understand the importance of Typography, so they just use the first Typeface they find and, of course, destroy their work!
Here are some interesting web sites: I love Typography, We Love Typography, The elements of Typographic style applied to The Web.
Funny way to show the difficulty designers usually have when they have to choose a Typeface.
In my opinion, there are a couple of reasons why this task is so hard:
1. Most of the designers don´t have a good knowledge of Typography, so it makes it quite difficult to work when you don´t really control the instruments you have.
2. There are soooooooo many different Typefaces you sometimes get lost trying to decide which one to use.
3. Some designers believe that if the Typeface is complex, weird and original, it will definitely look better. This is ALMOST NEVER the case.
4. Some designers don´t understand the importance of Typography, so they just use the first Typeface they find and, of course, destroy their work!
Here are some interesting web sites: I love Typography, We Love Typography, The elements of Typographic style applied to The Web.
Beautiful stop-motion music video.
Friday, April 23, 2010 9:39:05 AM
This is a beautiful stop-motion music video for Fleet Foxes, by Grandchildren (director & animator Sean Pecknold in collaboration with some friends).
Mykonos from Grandchildren on Vimeo.
Check his very interesting Pictoblog, showing drawings, ideas, photos, and other stuff from his sketchbook.Design for a Magazine
Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:45:04 AM
Since February, I am in charge of designing the magazine for a Breast Cancer Research Group.
Usually, this type of magazines have a very dull design, serious and sometimes even sad, with old people on the cover, or other not too happy and nice images. I just wondered why most of the magazines dealing with sad or difficult matters, like Cancer, had to convey this feeling.
So, my first challenge was to design something which was nice to look at, even pretty. I wanted the cover to be powerful, with colours, not the usual bleak and depressing image.
This is the first cover I designed:
I am actually quite happy with the result, and so were they.
Usually, this type of magazines have a very dull design, serious and sometimes even sad, with old people on the cover, or other not too happy and nice images. I just wondered why most of the magazines dealing with sad or difficult matters, like Cancer, had to convey this feeling.
So, my first challenge was to design something which was nice to look at, even pretty. I wanted the cover to be powerful, with colours, not the usual bleak and depressing image.
This is the first cover I designed:
I am actually quite happy with the result, and so were they. Brochure Design
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 1:12:57 PM
A selection of some pages of the new Brochure I designed for a Company. Hope you like it!!!! 
Cool illustrator
Monday, February 22, 2010 7:32:35 PM
I just found an amazing illustrator, Nikki Farquharson, who makes experimental illustrations with coloured pens and photos or magazine cuttings. Some of them have been used by Missbehave Magazine.
I think they are absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! So colourful and carefree.
I think they are absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! So colourful and carefree.
Vintage Schweppes bottles
Friday, January 22, 2010 11:43:25 AM
Schweppes has new vintage limited edition bottles, beautiful design inspired by its history: Soda, Lemonade, Indian Tonic and Ginger Ale. Designed by the Australian Design Agency Di Donato, experts in product design, especially for different kinds of bottles. They have some really amazing bottle designs in their web site.
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