Tiny Steeping
I saw these tea bags (a serger stitch? let me see that!) on the desk of a co-worker today and commented on the interesting design. Upon examining, the beauty of the stitching being continued past the ‘bag’ and out to eventually be stitched through the tag. Very nice.
I inquired further about the packaging the bags came in, naturally assuming that it also was pretty awesome, textured, stitched or made of an unusual material. Considering the tea industry, and some of the boxes and containers I’ve seen, I figured it would be amazing.
Nope. Kinda plain jane.
What a missed opportunity. Considering the labor to sew the bags themselves, I would think that a box they put multiples of the bags in would have seen as much attention. Sure, a four-color tin is expensive, but so is hand sewing each and every tea bag.
This tin tell me so little, certainly not a package I have to pick up just to check out the texture, and no allusion to the neat little bags that lie within. It’s really disappointing.
And then, I thought, wait, are there things I’m missing like this with Tiny Run? I just changed my page theme drastically, am still messing with it, and I can’t help but wonder about some big things that I might be missing. Perhaps I’m missing something easy, a theme continuation that might just carry all the work already there forward just a little bit more. It’s not a new feeling.
To that end, and to try to develop things further, point out things that I’ve missed, and just keep pushing, I’ve enlisted Pam Slim from escapefromcubiclenation.com, for a brief coaching session next Wednesday. Hopes are running high for this to yield some interesting information; I’m very much look forward to an outsider looking in on things.
Tiny run visitors are notorious for not commenting, but anybody notice anything I’m missing?
I wonder the same thing about myself/my site. I just re-did the design and everything, using the downloadable wordpress.
i think from what i’ve seen, you’re doin great. I liked the old design a little better, but only because it’s a wider width and just felt nice. dig this one too, though.
do you take any in progress shots? maybe blog a little more about the processes, inspirations, anything of the sort? the cinnamon toast shirt is def. my favorite so far.
I miss the wide too, but having the sidebar content in the footer I think hurt things a little. There’s stuff going on in there, and if you don’t scroll down every time then you’d miss it. I might widen up the content column a little, but some other bits are in line to happen first…
I did photos (and a video!) for the glowing skull shirt, and was going to post as a tutorial, but wanted to make sure the ‘upgraded’ shirts were received first before I show them all. Definitely have plans to show more process and some vids.
You like the toast more than the bacon? What?
it’s true. i do. i’m intrigued but confused by this new fascination with bacon by many people. the guy that draws diesel sweeties made a shirt that has bacon coming out of a toaster. why is bacon the popular icon these days?
There is something about it. Something smokey. Something just illicit enough.
There are probably papers that have been written about it…
Internet! Deliver this information to me!