Whistle Blower Tea Co.

Creative Agency: Black Squid Design
Creative Director: Derek Butler
Designer: Rowan Laubsch
Project Type: Produced, Commercial Work
Client: Whistle Blower Tea Co.
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Packaging Contents: Tea
Packaging Substrate / Materials: Cardboard
Printing Process: Digital Printed, Foil stamped

As a growing company in a saturated market, Whistle Blower Tea Co. wanted stand out as the premium tea, with a brand that represented their philosophy of honesty, quality and sustainability. To achieve this the brand had to be repositioned, starting with a more contemporary logo and retail packaging, to share a clearer more targeted message.

Taking inspiration from whistleblowers, code breaking, redacted documents and data leaks, we trialed many combinations of missing letters to achieve the most readable outcome, with the brain naturally filling in the gaps in the logo. A clean and minimal approach is employed across the brand and packaging, with a strong, commanding logo and a bold photographic style showing each individual ingredient in detail. In doing this, the brand strives to communicate the voice of the company as being open, honest and direct with the consumer.

What’s Unique?
To back up this ideology sustainable materials were sought out wherever possible, with a compostable internal bag and 100% recyclable carton, label and print collateral.

The logo was applied to front of pack as a large foil stamp to contrast the natural complexity of the photographed ingredients.