CATEGORY

Mix

RANK


PRODUCTION DETAILS

Quantity

5,000

Page Count

Paper Stock

Lan Vy, Natural, 160gr/m2

Number of Colors

3

Dimensions

6.85 × 5

Binding

Special Techniques

Offset
Foil stamp
Emboss


ADDL. DESIGN CREDITS

Creative Directors

Chi-An De Leo, Joshua Breidenbach

Designers

Dinh Thi Thuy Truc, Huynh Tran Khanh Nguyen

Producer

Mai Ngoc Que Lan


ADDL. PRODUCTION CREDITS


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LINKS

Rice Creative
La Diplomate

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CLIENT

La Diplo­mate cel­e­brates tea by offer­ing 60+ teas from all over the world.


BRIEF

They need­ed a visu­al iden­ti­ty and pack­ag­ing solu­tions for the gor­geous 18th cen­tu­ry store­front which sits on a quaint pedes­tri­an lane in the cen­ter of Bor­deaux, France, a new­ly labeled UNESCO World Her­itage site.


APPROACH

We sought to cre­ate a bold­er look for tea as we found La Diplo­man­te’s offer­ing to be a head-spin­ning array of com­plex fla­vors. First a sto­ry was devel­oped about this mys­te­ri­ous Diplo­mate who once trav­eled the world in search of the rarest and finest teas. From here we cre­at­ed her like­ness in a sim­ple mark—we com­bined mod­ernist type with clas­sic detail­ing for a look which is not time specific.

PRODUCTION LESSONS

It was a five-step process using two printers. First we had to offset the base colors, then the second printer added the foil stamp and emboss. Finally the first printer added a layer of adhesive and cut it to shape. Since two of the three processes were done by hand we had to make sure the registration and detailing was perfect—this was challenging but made the result all the more pleasing.

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