Yuchuan Ming Hộp Thiếc Trà by Jessica Zhengjia Hu

Yuchuan Ming Hộp Thiếc Trà by Jessica Zhengjia Hu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Sắt in Thiết kế Bao bì Competition Category.

SắtBao bì· 2021

Yuchuan Ming Hộp Thiếc Trà

by Jessica Zhengjia Hu

Client: No.72 Design Studio

A' Design Award Sắt Winner in Bao bì Category

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The Design

About Yuchuan Ming Hộp Thiếc Trà

Dự án này là một loạt các lon thiếc trắng xanh để đóng gói trà. Các trang trí chính ở hai bên là hình núi và mây giống phong cách tranh phong cảnh rửa mực của Trung Quốc. Bằng cách kết hợp các hoa văn truyền thống với các yếu tố đồ họa hiện đại, các đường nét trừu tượng và hình dạng hình học được pha trộn vào phong cách nghệ thuật truyền thống, mang lại nét mới mẻ cho các lon. Các tên trà trong thư pháp Xiaozhuan truyền thống của Trung Quốc được làm thành các con dấu chạm nổi trên tay cầm của nắp. Chúng là những điểm nổi bật làm cho những chiếc lon giống như những tác phẩm nghệ thuật thực sự theo một cách nào đó.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Sắt

Yuchuan Ming Hộp Thiếc Trà là người chiến thắng giải thưởng A' Design Award Sắt, một sự công nhận danh giá dành cho các thiết kế tốt đáp ứng các yêu cầu chuyên môn và công nghiệp được kỳ vọng từ các sáng tạo được thiết kế tốt. Những người chiến thắng giải Sắt thể hiện kỹ năng tuyệt vời, chuyên môn hóa cao, sự thấu hiểu chuyên gia và năng lực sáng tạo của người tạo ra chúng. Yuchuan Ming Hộp Thiếc Trà được kỳ vọng là một sáng tạo được đánh giá cao, ngưỡng mộ và trân trọng, thực tế và đổi mới. Thiết kế chiến thắng giải thưởng A' Design Award Sắt này tích hợp các thực hành tốt nhất của ngành và có các đặc tính kỹ thuật thành thạo gắn liền với bí quyết và tài năng. Yuchuan Ming Hộp Thiếc Trà được kính trọng vì sự kỹ lưỡng và được thiết kế để mang lại những cải thiện chất lượng cuộc sống giúp biến thế giới thành một nơi tốt đẹp hơn.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: In this project, the major designs are tin cans with blue and white colors and features resembling the Chinese traditional ink wash painting of landscapes. On top of the lid handles are embossed seals of the name of each tea. These seals are made of Xiaozhuan, a traditional calligraphy style from the Qin Dynasty. The major landscape images on the sides are mountains and clouds. With the ideas that tea grows in the mountains, and clouds express the peaceful and relaxing feelings that tea brings us. Traditional Chinese patterns and modern graphic elements are blended into the concept of ink wash painting. With abstract lines and geometric shapes, modern elements combine with traditional Chinese art styles, providing refreshing features for the packaging works. In addition to the tin cans, hexagonal outer boxes are designed under the same concept features and methods. The outer boxes are a set of external packages for the tin cans as well.
Dimensions & Packaging: The tin can body dimension is 85mm x 85mm x 120mm, and the dimension of the lid is 75mm x 75mm x 33mm. The handle is a 25mm cubic. The external outer hexagonal box's dimension is about 112mm x 112mm x150mm.
Tags: tea, tin can, tea canister, tea container, Blue-and-white porcelain, Chinese, tea culture, ink wash painking, traditional Chinese pattern, Chinese style
Production Technology: Blue-and-white porcelain and Chinese ink wash painting are two widely known representatives of Chinese art culture. Indeed, many ancient porcelain pieces were decorated with ink-wash style images. In this project, I am trying to interpret this traditional style in a more creative way. So I applied more abstract shapes and lines in the landscapes figures, while maintaining traditional styled patterns as supplemental details. In this way, I wish to find a balance between traditional arts and modern styles.
Design Challenge: Designing practical, functional, and artistic tea packaging is a basic purpose. The actual challenge of this project is the interaction between traditional art forms and modern creative styles. Combining different forms of traditional cultures is my first attempt. The important part is to make balance between all these art cultures so they will not be separated or taking over each other. Furthermore, I need solve these following questions. How to blend in modern elements smoothly? How to interpret these styles in more creative and appealing ways? How to build up relationships and connections between the past and the future? And finally how to transform these ideas into reality so people can get the essence and beauty of the tea, porcelain, ink wash painting, and modern graphic design from the products at the same time.
Research: Chinese Tea Culture has a history of thousands of years. I went through category of different types of tea and selected four popular ones as representatives for my projects: the West Lake Longjing, Tie Guanyin which is a type of Oolong tea, the Biluochun and the Puer Tea. Then I had to associate their origin, tastes and qualities with the shapes and features of ink wash landscape paintings. In addition, I also looked for interesting tea traditions and stories in Chinese history for inspirations. It is said that a scholar in Song Dynasty once compared tea to a friend called Mr Yuchuan in his book. The name Yuchuan was passed on since then. And that was how I came up with the idea of the project name.
Inspiration: As native Cantonese, tea drinking is a daily routine of my family. One day I saw a small Blue-and-white porcelain cup while I was trying to open the tea can and make some tea. The inspiration popped up and I thought it would be a good idea to design tea cans which had a Blue-and-white porcelain-liked appearance. They would still be tin cans, but using only blue and white colors and somehow resembling Chinese ink wash painting styles. The purpose is to mimic the look of Blue-and-white porcelain, so the cans can be used as decorative containers for other objects as well. Yuchuan is an alternative name of tea originated from the Song Dynasty in Chinese history. Ming means tea as well, and it is a common preferred name for modern Chinese people.
Project Duration: The project started in December 2020 and completed in February 2021 in Shenzhen China.
Operation Flow: How to draw customer attention when there are so many selections of the same type of tea products in the market? A classy and attractive package may help a lot in this way. Imitating a Blue-and-white porcelain-liked surface adds deluxe features to the external appearance of the tin cans. In addition, the landscape figures and traditional pattern decorations on the sides emphasize the artistic value of the cans. And the highlight is the traditional Xiaozhuan calligraphy embossed seal on top of the lid handle. This style of seals is frequently used in actual Chinese ink wash paintings and artworks by many traditional artists. Therefore the embossed seals make these tin cans more like real artworks when presenting to the customers. In China, tea is usually associated with art events and cultures. And I hope people can enjoy the beauty within all these Chinese traditional art cultures while relishing the mellow taste of Chinese tea.