The Panda Themed Tea Set by Yan Luo and Jianan Yu

The Panda Themed Tea Set by Yan Luo and Jianan Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Competition Category.

IronKitchenware· 2021

The Panda Themed Tea Set

by Yan Luo and Jianan Yu

Client: Luo Yan Art Design Studio

A' Design Award Winner in Kitchenware Category

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The Design

About The Panda Themed Tea Set

The Panda Themed is a ceramic tea set inspired by the loveliness of pandas. The set includes a tea pot and tea cups. The panda ears on the pot lid serve as a handle, and the panda eyes serve as coasters for the tea cups. Glossy white and matt black surfaces are combined to create a pleasant handling experience. User trials and habit analysis guided the size and the component parts, so the set is intuitive to use and durable. The tea set can be used at home or during travel, and can also be placed as decoration on dinner tables or book shelves.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

The Panda Themed Tea Set is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. The Panda Themed Tea Set is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. The Panda Themed Tea Set is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: WarmSymmetry: VerticalBackground: Top and Bottom

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This panda-themed tea set brings joy and harmony into tea time.Through user trials and habit analysis the designer optimized the set’s component parts and overall size in ways that make the product exquisite in appearance, intuitive to use and durable. The panda ears on the pot’s lid serve as a handle, while the panda eyes as coasters of the tea cups. Overall, the tea set adds joy both at home and during travel. Further, they can be placed as decoration on dinner tables or book shelves.
Dimensions & Packaging: Tea pot : Width 170 mm x Depth 120 mm x Height 90 mm ;
One tea cup: Width 60 mm x Depth 60 mm x Height 40 mm.
Tags: Tea Set, Tea Pot, Tea Cup, Panda, Drinkware, Tableware, Ceramics
Production Technology: Ceramics
Design Challenge: The main technological challenge was to achieve a Proper surface of objects. As you know, it is quite difficult to get Uniform curvature in ceramics, and especially in porcelain. It was possible to solve this problem by selecting the computer 3D modeling and 3D printing, then mass production was carried out according to the 3D model.
Research: How to simplify the the essence of panda is a key element of the design language of this project. The designer extracted the essence of pandas, namely loveliness, into the design of this tea set, and simplified design elements to combine with the practical structure of the tea pot and cups. Through user trials and habit analysis the designer optimized the set’s component parts and overall size in ways that make the final product exquisite in appearance, intuitive to use and durable. As part of the design, study different types of materials were tested such as combines glossy white and matt black surfaces in order to create a pleasant handling experience. At last, the final
product covers functionality, aesthetics and technology together.
Inspiration: The designer want the tea set adds joy and relaxation for tea lovers both at home and during travel, and also hope they can be placed as decoration on dinner tables or book shelves. So, The designer extracted the essence of pandas, namely loveliness, into the design of this tea set. The panda ears on the pot’s lid serve as a handle, while the panda eyes as coasters of the tea cups. The tea set combines glossy white and matt black surfaces in order to create a pleasant handling experience.
Project Duration: The project started in February 2020 in ChongQing and finished in July 2020 in ChongQing.
Operation Flow: The Panda-Themed Tea Set adds joy and relaxation for tea lovers both at home and during travel. Further, the tea set can be placed as decoration on dinner tables or book shelves.
Team Members: Designer: Yan Luo
Designer: Jianan Yu
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Yan Luo, Jianan Yu, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer Yan Luo, Jianan Yu, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer Yan Luo, Jianan Yu, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer Yan Luo, Jianan Yu, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer Yan Luo, Jianan Yu, 2020.
Video Credits: Yan Luo, Jianan Yu, 2020.