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Traditional Chinese Medicine & Endangered Species

Amy Dunne
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This project focuses on the detrimental effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine on certain endangered species; the tiger, the seahorse and the pangolin. The set of objects is designed to be displayed as though it were a section in a medicine shop.
 
The first animal chosen was the tiger. As tigers are used primarily to create tonics and wines from their blood and bones, I made a range of bottle labels with facts about tigers and how TCM affects them.
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
This back label was designed so the illustration appears steeped in liquid, in reference to the information on the label.
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
Closeups of the labels
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
The next animal was the seahorse. Seahorses are boiled in water and drunk as a tea, so a teaset was designed. The tea boxes contain information on the inner lid. The hand-stitched seahorse teabags are filled with Chinese tea and each have a label with a fact about seahorses attached, and project sources. The fragility of the teabags helps convey how the species is now marked as vulnerable.
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
"The traditional Chinese medicine trade takes in excess of up to sixty million seahorses a year from the wild (saveourseahorses.org) Dried seahorses retail from $600 to $3000 per kilogram. In terms of value based on weight seahorses retail for almost the price of gold in Asia (UNEP, 2004)"
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
Gold foil details to allude to the price of seahorses.
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
The pattern from the teaboxes.
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
A cup and saucer was illustrated in a matching pattern to be displayed alongside the teaset.
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
The last animal is the pangolin. One of the main reasons pangolins are going extinct is that many people do not even know they exist. With this in mind, I chose to create a book of pangolin facts. This was a traditionally hand bound book, with a lasercut card cover. It featured several graphite and Photoshop illustrations to accompany the facts.
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
Selected pangolin drawings
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
Lastly, a small Sculpey baby pangolin was made and installed into a jar in order to look like a wet specimen. This displays how pangolins are sold.
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
Project sources;

worldwildlife.org
onca.org
IUCN.org
tigersincrisis.org
CITES.org
TRAFFIC.org
saveourseahorses.org
projectseahorse.org
pangolins.org
endangered species animals bottles labels label design box tea teabag tea design chinese medicine sculpey book hand bound book
This project was selected as a semifinalist in the Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2016
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