2026

Design Awards Silver Winner - Xiamen Greentrain Brand Management Co., Ltd.

Green Train Tea Tin for Tea Bags

Entrant

Xiamen Greentrain Brand Management Co., Ltd.

Category

Beverage - Tea & Coffee: Ready to Drink

Client's Name

Country / Region:

China

This tea packaging design takes vintage green trains as its narrative core. It transforms ordinary tea-drinking consumption into an immersive emotional journey through iconic symbols of a bygone era. It draws inspiration from classic vintage trains and forms the metal tea tin into an authentic carriage shape. Visually, it awakens shared generational memories of travels and encounters among older Chinese generations, while creating an immersive on-the-go atmosphere throughout usage.
Structurally, the tea tin adopts stackable carriage-unit construction. It creates a train-formation display effect via horizontal arrangement, boosting brand recognizability and scene expressiveness at retail shelves while enhancing serialized and collectible attributes. Functionally, it features multiple vintage-style window details on the tin body. It uses closed interfaces to symbolize distinct destinations, echoes the combination logic of multi-flavor inner tea bags, and improves overall interactivity and sense of exploration.
Visually, this tea packaging takes retro dark green as the main tone, complemented by off-white and bright yellow stripes. It integrates detailed elements such as serial numbers and signal lights to build a complete and unified nostalgic style. In terms of materials, it incorporates recyclable tinplate and food-grade inner coating. This choice maintains effective sealing and safety performance while meeting environmental protection requirements. Overall, this packaging can be repurposed as storage items or desktop ornaments after use, thus enhancing its product lifecycle value.

Credits

Huang Yushan
Xiamen Greentrain Brand Management Co., Ltd.
Wu Wei
Xiamen Greentrain Brand Management Co., Ltd.
Lu Weiming
Xiamen Greentrain Brand Management Co., Ltd.
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