Fold
Tests have shown that the effective ingredients concentration of ordinary hanging teabag liquid is only 40 percent of that when directly brewing medicine. This is because ordinary teabags wrap medicine inside, making it difficult for water to flow smoothly from the inside out. This design aims to increase the effective drug concentration and reduce medicine waste. We also hope to use origami technique to save more volume in the product to implement sustainable design concepts. When water is poured into it, it will unfold layer by layer from a flat folded shape, forming a barrel structure.
Fold Traditional Chinese Medicine Teabag by Mengzhen Xu was selected as an outstanding representation of communication design by the A' Design Award. Fold Traditional Chinese Medicine Teabag received the Silver A' Design Award in Packaging Design in 2024. The A' Packaging Design Award is an international, juried, academic and meritocratic design recognition program which rewards superior design of bottles, boxes, cans, pouches, tubes, cartons, wrappers, bags and more.
