Tea Pigs - Further Research

After sampling some Teapigs tea I bought from The smoothie company, I researched further into the company on their website to see some relievance to the designs.

Hand drawn illustrations aren't really my thing but work really well with the site, but the random little quotes that appear at the top don't really appeal. Why?
What I do like, if the .teas were going to screen, is to have a 'how are you feeling?' tab to help the consumer decide on a particular tea.
When you have chosen a tea, the inform process goes further and each tea is explained and how it is best drank.

Talk about pissing on my bonfire.

Scrolling through GE the other day and found an entire tea branding/identity on the site. A little miffed but thankfully nothing i have done to say ive copied or whatever. Nice placement of the leave of the 't' for tea, similar to the .tea I'm considering but gladly not the same.

What about a label/tag?

On a usual flick through ffffound.com, I came across this bottle of 'forest milk' which includes a little label tag around its neck on the bottle. There is a lot of information I want to put across to inform the target audience about tea, and a small guide of maybe a few sentences could help. I would apply them to the label/tag although they might not be as readable, or clutter the 'K.I.S.S.' intentions of the design. If a label/tag was included, I could also look further into different stocks and print processes on the label/tag, match the colours for different outputs and give a more desirable appeal to the product. This needs to be researched further.

YUM.

Strictly not related although I do feel the food relevance is enough reason to post on my blog. Isn't beautifull! Found on graphic-exchange of a restaurant identity by a group called transformer studio. Originally the cup caught my eye because of the definite cues from Chuck Anderson + the relation to my VL type face from the first year made of light.

Spot varnishes

Few examples of what I could find in the flat of spot varnish finishes, my particular favourite is the green and blacks cookbook. The spot varnish has been applied clear and not highlighting a particular area, making it really subtle. Spot varnish is applied as a spot colour (as the name suggests) separately after the initial print process has been completed. Really nice effect that would be great to consider with my tea designs.