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Menhao Tea Archival Collection Case by Chushan Design Wins the Golden A' Design Award in Packaging Design
Chushan Design honored for packaging design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Menhao Tea Archival Collection Case by Chushan Design, designed for Shenzhen Chushan Design Culture Group Co., Ltd., has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Packaging Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Menhao Tea Archival Collection Case
Menhao Tea is a packaging system for tea, shaped as an archival collection case. The design maps six tea categories on a phylogenetic tree, with origin coordinates, craft timelines and flavor scales. Each inner capsule states geographic coordinates, tree age and processing details, replacing vague tasting terms with measurable values. The case is made of washable kraft paper and closes with a cotton cord, so the box can be reused. Bronze and silver foil stamping marks tea branch motifs and parameters. Each box holds 66 sachets of 3.6 grams.
About Chushan Design
CSD Chushan Design is a full-stack product strategy service brand and one of China's most professional brand power innovation agencies. With "Growth Services" as its core driving force, we leverage Stanford University's Design Thinking methodology - the 7D Creation Method - to help enterprises achieve growth in brand power and product capabilities. Our comprehensive services encompass the entire value chain, including: Strategic Opportunity Insights, Product Pre-concept Exploration, User Empathy Research & Product Definition, Design Definition, Product Development & Implementation, and Brand Marketing.
Award Record
This recognition makes Chushan Design a winner of 7 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2023 - 2024 and the 2024 - 2025 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Packaging Design Award
The A' Packaging Design Award is an international packaging competition that recognizes outstanding packaging designs by talented packaging designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to packaging designers, graphic designers, branding agencies and product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include bottles, boxes, cans, pouches, tubes and cartons. The awarded packaging designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/packaging
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/170869
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/170869
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!170869
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/335258
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://e.tb.cn/h.TuQwFRqmL144mFQ?tk=jAxGeke0Pg1
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Menhao Tea Archival Collection Case
- Function
- Archival Collection Case
- Category
- Packaging Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Packaging & Retail, Branding & Advertising and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Saddle Brown, White Smoke, Sienna, Maroon and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Shenzhen Chushan Design Culture Group Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chushan Design
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #170869
Credits
- Team
- Yin Peng and Li Linlin
- Image Credits
- Image : Photographer Wang yue, Menhao Tea , 2024.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This innovative system visualizes tea cultivation through biological phylogenetic trees, mapping six major tea categories with terroir coordinates, craft evolution timelines, and flavor matrices. The archival case uses washable kraft paper for extended utility, resonating with academic aesthetics in study environments. Each inner capsule details geo-coordinates, tree age, and processing parameters, synchronized with a traceable quality DB to empower scientific tea selection for Menhao Tea.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by 19th-century botanical archives, this system decodes tea evaluation through scientific visual metrics. Chromatic scales, quantified flavor indicators , and origin traceability codes replace ambiguous descriptors like "mellow sweetness", constructing a verifiable decision-making framework for Menhao Tea selection.
- Research
- The research aims to establish a scientific decision-making model for tea consumption through dual approaches: visual semiotic translation and material lifecycle testing . By quantifying intangible heritage techniques into measurable craft parameters, this initiative demystifies tea culture while innovating an archival paradigm for consumer goods.
- Challenge
- By integrating archival design elements and heritage materials, this system transforms tea selection from sensory intuition to data-driven decisions, shifting Menghao Tea culture from ambiguous traditions to measurable quality benchmarks.
- Realization and Technology
- The closure system with cotton cord reinforcement and washable kraft paper enables sustainable reuse cycles. Bronze gold hot foil stamping creates tea-branch motifs as visual anchors, complemented by silver foil parameter indicators and tactile sticker overlays that enhance visual hierarchy - establishing an archival-grade gift system balancing academic rigor and modern aesthetics for Menhao Tea.
- Operation and Interaction
- The archival cord-sealed closure system transforms each unboxing into tactile document retrieval ritual. This material narrative bridges historical tea research with contemporary consumption scenarios, creating sensorial archive access points for Menhao Tea.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was launched in Shenzhen, China in November 2024 and fully implemented by January 2025.
- Specifications
- Each box contains 66 pre-measured sachets (3.6g/sachet) scientifically calibrated for dedicated teapots, achieving ideal infusion strength through single brew optimization for Menhao Tea.
- Keywords
- Archive, Tea, Pu'er, Philosophy, Theory
