Clever tea packaging and creative tea bag designs from all over the world.
Cigarette Tea Bags
Cigarettea are creative tea bags that look just like real cigarettes. [link]
Ineeka Tea Bags
Cool tea bags that have paper arms on the sides that fold out in order to make them into a single-use filter. [link]
tPod Tea Bags
Small paper boats attached to tea bags by Elisabeth Soós. [link]
Tea Forté
Tall polyhedral infuser tea packs by Peter Hewitt, each with a disarmingly natural-looking leaf/sprout tag. [link]
Tea Stick
Cool tea bags designed for people who do not make their tea in a kitchen: gardeners, builders and campers. [link]
T Bag
Example of literal design applied to a tea bag by Felix Reinki. [link]
Tea To Go Sticks
Tea bags are attached inside of the tea stick so there is no need to use the spoon for stirring. [link]
Maum Tea Bags
Cool tea bag designs look like people with different personalities. [link]
Tea Stick Stirrer
Designed by Lee Yun Qin, tea sticks can also act as a stirrer, allowing the user to enjoy the tea through stirring it easily. [link]
Lighting Tea Bag
Cool lighting concept by Wonsik Chae imitates the form of a tea bag. [link]
Hanger Tea
Creative tea bags by Soon Mo Kang are shaped like T-shirts with a hanger that hangs on the tea cup. [link]
Herbal Tea Bags
Clever tea bags designed to associate tea with a healthy lifestyle. [link]
Origami Tea Bags
Creative tea bags designed by Natalia Ponomareva from Russia. [link]
unDave
Neat, xcept for the hanging man, over all very creative.
-by unDave™
Jan 27th, 2010
Jasmyn
I love the creativity! Inspiration on a string.
Jan 27th, 2010
Chris
Now these are great! So many practical designs, especially the tea sticks!
Jan 27th, 2010
ajayjshah
Agreed, the practicality of these designs is definitely there. Some very creative and clever concepts. Overall, quite an amazing post.
Jan 28th, 2010
Megan
Love all of them!!! People should drink more tea instead of coffee.
Jan 28th, 2010
primi
Interesting… out of the box thinking…
Jan 28th, 2010
Sam
They need to have bunch of that last one at the Twitter HQ. haha ;)
Jan 28th, 2010
charlemagne
Some really excellent ideas, the tea sticks and the cigarettea are my favourites.
Jan 28th, 2010
BestofStumbleupon
Awesome. I love the cigarettea :) though..it would totally suck to confuse it with the real thing. :P
Jan 28th, 2010
M
I dont think the tea stick stirrer is going to work very well.
Jan 28th, 2010
Critical Eye
Lots of good stuff here. But the Cigarettea seems a little gross… the idea of drinking something a cigarette was in! (I know, it’s tea, but the visual is just off-putting.) The Hanger Tea is interesting, but the packaging is pretty impractical… there’s no way the tea bags would stay on the rod during shipping, and the box looks very fragile.
Jan 29th, 2010
Joas
WoW!!!!!
Jan 29th, 2010
Benoy Thapa
Wow such creativeness. The tea world is really getting innovative. Thanks for the share.
Jan 29th, 2010
Carol
All very cute - well almost all - agree with critical eye - cigarette one NOT for me. Still I love my whole leaf tea. I love watching them unfurl into a wonderful brew. With bags you don’t know what you are really getting.
Jan 29th, 2010
Jason Tweed
These are some fantastic packaging. I particularly like the origami swans. I’m a fan of packaging that reflects the culture of the place the tea is grown.
My tea company, Kungaloosh, has taken a different approach. Our tea bags are minimalist. We try to be earth friendly.
While the presentations here are terrific, I find some of them rather wasteful.
At our company we offer some unique containers with your first purchase of tea, then refill bags of loose leaf or tea bags.
We also tried to add value by teaching our customers about the tea and the culture from which it comes. There are other ways to add value besides creative packaging.
Jan 29th, 2010
mostafa
fantastic
Jan 29th, 2010
avisioncame
A bunch of stupid over the top concepts trying to improve the simplest of tried-and-true things.
Jan 29th, 2010
itsbrandnew
all of these are pretty cool!
Jan 30th, 2010
TuMama
This stuff is so pussified. Seriously, this stuff probably costs 5 times more than a regular ol’ teabag and you’re still getting the same damn thing. Get over yourselves.
Jan 31st, 2010
myles
any new product that produces more waste than an existing product is on my no-buy list. cute is nice. cute and green is better.
Jan 31st, 2010
Roland Petrov
I hope the tea is as exotic as the designs!
Jan 31st, 2010
Hashim
TuMama you stole my words lol, often in supermarket just look for those fancy ketchup bottles they cost more than regular ketchup bottles yet with less quantity. Don’t know who buys them, same thing applies here.
Jan 31st, 2010
Veronica
These ideas are creative and are targeting people who are bored with the same old thing all the time. There is always room for improvement on simple things to spice things up a bit. What flavor are the cigarette tea bags?
Jan 31st, 2010
Rinette
Totally love each one! Would love to have the opportunity to share some of these with my friends!!
Very cool!!
Jan 31st, 2010
Ve8
These concepts are targeting people who embrace creativity. Creative ideas gives us alternatives to the same old thing. Appreciate new ideas.
Jan 31st, 2010
Pieter
but… but……
I’m a coffee drinker. DAMN!!
Jan 31st, 2010
jeteye
OMG, these are so incredibly clever and creative. Wow, very cool uses for tea. I cannot determine which is my favorite, but NOW I have some cool gift ideas!!
Feb 1st, 2010
annie
There is much to be said for delight.
Feb 1st, 2010
Katrina Gibson
Very creative!
Feb 1st, 2010
Moa
Still waiting for teabags that look like tampons.
Feb 2nd, 2010
ScoJo
These are great. Now if someone would just do the one design we’re all thinking. OK, not all of us.
Feb 2nd, 2010
asma
so cute n clever ^_^
but where can i buy them from ? in Kuwait ?
Feb 2nd, 2010
crystal
MAKE TEA NOT WAR o SO AWESOME x
Feb 2nd, 2010
Julia A Apps
just love the imagination and awesome possibilities!
Feb 2nd, 2010
Ozonar
Wonderful! Yay!~
Feb 2nd, 2010
finnashe
Wow!!! LOVE those origami tea bags!!!How cool!
Feb 2nd, 2010
passang
I salute the creativeness…never seen such teas in my life…i wonder how they taste :P
Feb 2nd, 2010
Mandi Neill
Cute!. I want some.
Feb 2nd, 2010
Jordana
Cool concepts! The one that doubles as a spoon is very practical.
Feb 2nd, 2010
dot2822
Absolutely love these! “Beauty is in the details.”
Feb 2nd, 2010
Designzzz
Nice !!
Feb 2nd, 2010
Jude
Love it, especially love the tea whisk!
Feb 2nd, 2010
Joe
sooo… as someone pointed out earlier, most of these are rather wasteful, aren’t they?
i mean, with all that creativity at hand, you’d expect some more ideas for reusable… err… teabagging concepts…
Feb 2nd, 2010
kelly
WOW! that is sweeeeeet, i want all of them please!
Feb 2nd, 2010
dagi
everything looks interesting :) except this cigarette :| cigarette in water doesn’t smell good…
Feb 3rd, 2010
Bex
Loose leaf tea is much better than anything in a bag.
I agree they are very wasteful. They look nice but I would take a pot of good loose leaf tea any day!
Feb 3rd, 2010
G
the literal translation of smoking cigarettes from turkish is drinking cigarettes. sigara(cigarett) icmek(to drink)
overall very nice designs.
Feb 3rd, 2010
Lucia
I love creative people! And this designs are so nice!!
Feb 3rd, 2010
Dave
Cool stuff, made me thursday
Feb 4th, 2010
theodore conrad jr
even though my teeth are falling out lacking care i still have my evening tea and tv sugar,milk
Feb 4th, 2010
Funny
Really funny designs. Awesome…
Feb 4th, 2010
Susan Tate
M’k. Know how you’ll have a really crappy period in life? I looked at these and they made me happy. WTH? Being a designer, I relish the brilliance of other designers. Thanks, whomever, for the sunshine. VERY cool.
Feb 4th, 2010
basvn
hahahah great :D
Feb 4th, 2010
Zane
While they’re impractical for every day use, I could see these being used in little get-togethers with friends and family. What awesome designs, I love the creativity put into every day common objects to make them look as good as they taste.
Feb 4th, 2010
Cafe Racer
I love the little guys hangin’ off the side of the tea cup! Awesome!!
Feb 4th, 2010
Frances
where’s sharky??
Feb 4th, 2010
Lutfi
Those are very creative and great way to enjoy a cup of tea. like it!
Feb 4th, 2010
prinz
kinda unique n ori in approach … pretty cool
Feb 5th, 2010
pony
amusing ,i hope thea is as good as the design . i like the swan.
Feb 5th, 2010
Chris Martin
My wife loves this.
Chris
Feb 5th, 2010
Ricklb
Cigarettea! Funny stuff…. now I can do both at once…Haha!
Feb 5th, 2010
Merly
tea is cigarrete pretty bad i hate it ,take more teaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Feb 6th, 2010
Heloise
Nice, some are really practical :-)
Feb 6th, 2010
Murray
I think I have found exactly what I need for my next tea party.
Feb 7th, 2010
mrpooper
Creative stuff. I don’t drink tea, but might start walking around with a cup just to be seen.
Feb 7th, 2010
taner okutan
One more time.
I like tea !
Feb 7th, 2010
Denise
Love those tea bags, in particular the hanger and the origami… the cigarette, not so much
Feb 11th, 2010
Christina
Love the Ineeka! Makes loose leaf easier to brew!
Feb 11th, 2010
Valente
I think the ciggarette tea bag idea is awesome! It will probably make a smoker light up every time he has tea lol!
Feb 12th, 2010
Merav Cat Lover
Great designs. They would make wonderful little gifts for tea drinkers. Also they would all go over great in a small cafe that wants to be different. Of course for every day drinking it would be way to pricey. A one kilo box or a 100 bag box of tea is the thing to buy.
Feb 12th, 2010
tuby
loved it! hanger tea is my favorite…fabulous, who would have thought of thosee:)
Feb 12th, 2010
topcat
Why don’t you just put tea leaves in a creative vessel? Teabags are for jerks who think herbal tea is the same thing as Camellia sinensis.
That said, the cigarettes are certainly the coolest from a design perspective. Genuinely creative. The rest are just :blah:
Feb 13th, 2010
Max
where can i buy this over internet ?
Feb 19th, 2010
whiteb0ard
Interesting…if see it, i will buy it…
Feb 19th, 2010
Som
Some very creative ideas…and to think that I still drink tea in a traditional cup, steeped the traditional way.
Feb 24th, 2010
Kristi
My stepmother gave me tea bags that open like flowers. I haven’t wanted to use them yet. Maybe when Spring comes.
Feb 27th, 2010
Carlos
Clever tea packaging…my favorites are the lighting tea bags and the origami tea bags.
Mar 7th, 2010