Menhao Tea Afifiga o Lauti by Chushan Design

Menhao Tea Afifiga o Lauti by Chushan Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Auro in Mamanu Afifi Competition Category.

AuroAfifi· 2025

Menhao Tea Afifiga o Lauti

by Chushan Design

Client: Shenzhen Chushan Design Culture Group Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award Auro Winner in Afifi Category

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The Design

About Menhao Tea Afifiga o Lauti

O le Menhao Tea o se faiga afifiga mo lauti, ua faia i le foliga o se pusa e teu ai faamaumauga tāua. O le mamanu e faafanua ai vaega e ono o lauti i luga o se laau o gafa, faatasi ai ma faamaopoopoga o le mea na afua mai ai, faasologa o taimi o le gaosiga ma fua o le tofo. O capsule taitasi i totonu o loo taua ai faamaopoopoga faafanua, tausaga o le laau ma auiliiliga o le gaosiga, e sui ai faaupuga le mautinoa o le tofo i tulaga e mafai ona fuaina. O le pusa e faia i le pepa kraft e mafai ona fufuluina ma e tapunia i se maea vavae, ina ia mafai ona toe faaaogaina le pusa. O foil stamping apamemea ma ario e faailoga ai ata o lala o le lauti ma faamaumauga. O pusa taitasi e i ai le 66 taga laiti e taitasi le 3.6 karama.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Auro

O le A' Design Award Auro na manumalo ai Menhao Tea Afifiga o Lauti, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu o le tulaga muamua, matagofie ma maoaʻe. O ē manumalo i le Auro o galuega fou tele, matuā vaai i le lumanaʻi ma susulu e faaalia ai le atamai, le poto ma le tomai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Menhao Tea Afifiga o Lauti e avea ma mea fou e matuā vivii, e faatulaga ai uiga fou ma tetele, e tuuina mai ai se tau e leʻi iai muamua. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Auro o se galuega ofoofogia, ua faaaloalogia, e aogā tele ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Menhao Tea Afifiga o Lauti e fatuina ai lagona malosi o le manaʻo, faaosofia le tuinanau, faalauiloa le fatufatuaʻi ma faamalosia i tatou.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

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.
Dimensions & Packaging: 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.
Tags: Archive, Tea, Pu'er, Philosophy, Theory
Production 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.
Design 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.
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.
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.
Project Duration: The project was launched in Shenzhen, China in November 2024 and fully implemented by January 2025.
Operation Flow: 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.
Team Members: Yin Peng
Li Linlin
Image Credits: Image : Photographer Wang yue, Menhao Tea , 2024.