DESIGN SPECIFICATION
DESIGN CONCEPT
Bringing the teapot back into fashion for teabags
Tea was once a very expensive and valued commodity. There was a culture associated with tea drinking, tea acted as a centre for social gatherings. Now it seems mass production and the invention of tea bags and the need for convenience have undermined most tea's value and thus lowered the demand/appreciation for tea pots. My pot will try to satisfy highly critical tea drinkers by extracting the best possible tea from a tea bag (in the end the choice of tea bag, its material, shape and the size of the leaves inside will largely determine the taste quality). My pot will also try to encourage non tea-pot users to place their tea bag in a pot as well as a mug.
DESIGN EVALUATION CRITERIA
My perfect teapot will:
Bringing the teapot back into fashion for teabags
Tea was once a very expensive and valued commodity. There was a culture associated with tea drinking, tea acted as a centre for social gatherings. Now it seems mass production and the invention of tea bags and the need for convenience have undermined most tea's value and thus lowered the demand/appreciation for tea pots. My pot will try to satisfy highly critical tea drinkers by extracting the best possible tea from a tea bag (in the end the choice of tea bag, its material, shape and the size of the leaves inside will largely determine the taste quality). My pot will also try to encourage non tea-pot users to place their tea bag in a pot as well as a mug.
DESIGN EVALUATION CRITERIA
My perfect teapot will:
- Make better quality tea than usual from a teabag in a pot and a teabag in a mug, i.e. it enables more even brewing with the teabag so that the taste and smell are neither too weak nor too strong and the colour is neither too light nor too dark.
- Optimise temperature of the brew
- Enable easy placing and removal of the tea bag from the pot
- Be easier to clean than a pot with tea leaves
- Have an aesthetic that evokes both a traditional and innovative image for a teapot
- Make enough tea for one person (2 cups)
Will focus on black tea