All About Tea In The News

If you would like Andrew Gadsden to appear on a radio or television programme as a tea expert, or to interview him for a newspaper or magazine, please call the office on 02392 750122. Tea is a pleasant subject, and of constant interest to many people.

Mr Gadsden is also available, subject to diary commitments and a negotiable fee/expenses, for after-dinner speaking. He also occasionally speaks on the subject to local church and social groups in exchange for a token donation to the Tea Trade Benevolent Fund.

The Dieline

22 February 2011

The Dieline is "The world's #1 packaging design website".

The Dieline defines and promotes the world's best packaging design.

Established in early 2007, The Dieline is dedicated to the progress of the package design industry and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. Its purpose is to define and promote the world’s best packaging design, and provide a place where the package design community can review, critique and stay informed of the latest industry trends and design projects being created in the field.

The most visited website on package...

Design Hey

22 February 2011

Design Hey is an online magazine of arts and designs. We bring you the best designs and art works every day from all over the world. You can find most creative and interesting pieces and information of most talented designers and artists here. Inspiration is all our website about. Design Hey was founded by Zachary Chim in 2010.

"The results of the new All About Tea identity have been astonishing. Our feedback from the client was beyond what could be expected. A few quotes that express this sentiment: The firm has changed massively for the better since changing the packaging, labels, letterheads, etc. We are now able to feel proud of what we send out. It changes the way we think about the business and thus the way we present it and ourselves to the outside world. Everyone at All...

Fonts In Use

26 January 2011

A brand for those who take theirs without milk or sugar

In the mid ’90s Sandstrom Partners reinvented tea packaging with their work for Tazo. The warm hues and worn typography (set in Exocet, Nicolas Cochin, and Nuptial Script) were meant to evoke “ancient tea culture”, and customers drank it right up. The brand was so successful that most of Tazo’s competition hitched their wagon to that Przewalski’s Horse and went along for the ride, adorning their tea bags with brushed lettering and Asianesque motifs.

UK based All About Tea is a wholesaler, not a retail brand like Tazo, but their product appears in restaurants and cafes just like Tazo appears at Starbucks. The difference in the two looks is stark. Tasked with creating...

September Industry

26 January 2011

SeptemberIndustry is an online design journal/resource that showcases the very best in international graphic design & communication and everything in between every week. Having been established in early 2008, the site has since gained a large following of readers and has consequently gone on to receive much praise and support from industry professionals in and around the UK. This recognition has only been made possible as result of SeptemberIndustry’s dedication to the pursuit of good design.

A Stamp of Quality

The mark represents the process of making tea; the blending and the straining. The shape of the mark references a seal or stamp — an iconic industry standard — and is used in this way as a stamp of quality...