Art of Tea Display Wins First Place in Local Contest

By Melissa Chua at 10:50 am on Thursday, December 6, 2012

FIDM students design award winning display in the 3rd Annual Pasadena Magazine Design Competition

Pasadena, CA (December 5, 2012) – A giant store display featuring Art of Tea products won first place in the third annual Pasadena Magazine 2012 FIDM Visual Communications Competition. The beautifully constructed display stands at 6 feet high and stretches 8 feet across, at the Whole Foods- Arroyo Parkway store in Pasadena. Art of Tea was selected to be the star of the display because of its brand recognition and alignment with the competition’s sub-theme, “Mind, Body, Soul.”

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“We love Art of Tea,” says Eunise Luna, the Whole Body team leader at Whole Foods. “It’s local, has great flavor, and they are beautiful teas. My personal favorite is Earl Grey Crème. There really is nothing else like it.”

The display highlights some of the store’s bestsellers such as Earl Grey Crème, Green Pear, French Lemon Ginger and a Breakfast Blend custom blended exclusively for Whole Foods. The Art of Tea display will be up in the store until Monday, December 10th.

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Groups of three Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) students were challenged by Pasadena Magazine to create displays in four Pasadena locations: Barnes & Noble, Macy’s, Whole Foods and the Pasadena Convention Center. The students constructed displays using in-store merchandise with the theme, “Reasons to love Pasadena.”

Last Wednesday, first place winners Brittney McCourtney, Taylor Jane Breidenstein and Phoebe Hoang received the “Best Design” award, $1500 in cash and prizes, and a magazine feature in the upcoming January issue at Pasadena Magazine’s December Hot-Off-The-Press party, showcasing a fashion show starring the 2013 Tournament of Roses Rose Queen and Royal Court. The competition’s judges were: Daryn-Reid Goodall, an Emmy nominated set decorator, Kim Helgeson, a Manager of Visual Merchandising at Mattel, Inc. and an award winning designer of retail stores and visual programs for major retailers, and Jill Tennent, Anthropologie’s Regional Recruiter.

Art of Tea is located in Los Angeles, CA and is a leading importer and wholesaler of organic and specialty teas in North America. In addition to some of LA’s finest resorts and restaurants, Art of Tea services hotels, cafes, spas and many other hot spots from the Hawaiian Islands to New York City, complete with staff training.

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Pin it to Win it! – Fair Trade Giveaway

By Linda at 9:36 am on Thursday, October 18, 2012

Fair Trade Month is an exciting time to celebrate and remind ourselves to get motivated about what we can do to make a difference. Let us know what your favorite fair trade teas are by posting them onto your Pinterest page by Oct 31st for a chance to win our Fair Trade Giveaway, which includes our signature Art of Tea Fair Trade Sampler, a Stainless Steel Travel Mug and a Limited Edition, Black Art of T-Shirt!*Gift Set Giveaway - Web

Here’s how to enter:

§ Follow Art of Tea on Pinterest  (http://pinterest.com/artoftea/)

§ Create a Pinterest board showing 10 of your favorite Art of Tea fair trade teas (you can find all of our teas on our Website or you can simply repin existing pins from our Pinterest page!)

§ Please add #pintowintea @artoftea to the description of each pin on your Art of Tea board so that we can count and track your entries!

On Wednesday October 31st, we’ll pick a random winner* out of a teapot and notify them by commenting on the winning pin, so please make sure you have your email notifications set to get alerts when you receive a comment on a pin! If we don’t hear back from the winner within a week, we will have to go back to our teapot!

Happy pinning and thanks for supporting the fair trade movement!

*Open to US residents only

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Art of Tea’s Pin It To Win It Contest

By Katie Kirby at 2:40 pm on Friday, September 28, 2012

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We have an Art of Tea Stainless Steel Tea Tumbler with a Fall Tea Sampler up for grabs! All you have to do is get pinning on Pinterest!

Here’s how to enter:

§ Follow Art of Tea on Pinterest  (http://pinterest.com/artoftea/)

§ Create a Pinterest board showing 10 of your all time favorite teas (you can find all of our teas on our Website or you can simply repin existing pins from our Pinterest page!)

§ Please add #pintowintea @artoftea to the description of each pin on your Art of Tea board so that we can count and track your entries!

On Friday October 5th, we’ll pick a random winner out of a hat and notify them by commenting on the winning pin, so please make sure you have your email notifications set to get alerts when you receive a comment on a pin! If we don’t hear back from the winner within a week, we will have to go back to our hat!

*Open to US residents only

Happy Pinning!

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Enter to win a NewLeaf Glass Teapot + 2oz of Butterscotch Tea!

By Linda at 12:22 pm on Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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“Like” us on Facebook and you’ll be entered to win our win a NewLeaf Glass Teapot and 2oz of our Butterscotch dessert tea! Just click on the sweepstakes tab located on the left side of our facebook page. Good luck!

Rules & Restrictions:

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

To Enter: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. To be eligible you must provide the sponsor of this contest, Art of Tea, LLC (the “Sponsor”), with your name, email address, zip code and date of birth. Sponsor will not be responsible for entries lost, delayed, incomplete or misdirected. Entries will become the sole property of Sponsor and by entering, you expressly consent to adding your name to receive future promotional offers, and using your name for advertising, publicity or any other purposes whatsoever, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, without compensation and with or without attribution to you, as Sponsor elects.

Eligibility: Contest is open to legal residents of United States only. Must be 13 years of age or older. You are not eligible if you are an employee of Sponsor or a member of the immediate family (defined as parents, children, siblings or spouse, regardless of where they reside) or household of any of the above persons. By entering, you agree to abide by these rules and all decisions of Sponsor and the independent contest organization, which are final in all matters relating to this contest. This contest commences on December 20th 2011 and one (1) NewLeaf glass teapot + 2oz of Butterscotch tea will be awarded to the winner. The winner will be selected on February 2nd 2012: At the conclusion of contest, Sponsor will select the names of the winner from all eligible entries received during the life of the contest. The odds of being selected as a potential winner depend on the number of eligible entries received during the entry period. A potential winner will be contacted through a submitted email address. The potential winner will be asked to provide their full name and mailing address within a specified time period. If a potential winner is contacted by email for verification purposes, he/she will have three (3) business days within which to respond to the notification email, or he/she will be disqualified and his/her prize forfeited, and an alternate potential winner may be selected. If a participant changes his/her email address or other contact information after he/she registers, it is his/her sole responsibility to update his/her registration information by logging in and making changes in his/her Sponsor website account. Failure to update such registration information may affect a potential winner’s ability to receive a prize. If a potential winner cannot be reached after a reasonable effort has been exerted, he/she is found to be ineligible, he/she cannot or does not comply with these official rules, or if a prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, such potential winner will be disqualified, and an alternate potential winner may be selected at Sponsor’s sole discretion.

Prize: One (1) winner will be chosen, subject to Sponsor’s sole discretion. There will be one NewLeaf glass teapot + one 2oz bag of Butterscotch tea from Sponsor. Prize is non-transferable and must be accepted as awarded, without substitution. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to substitute a prize with another prize of equivalent or greater value if necessary for any reason.

Disclaimers: Sponsor and its affiliated entities are not responsible or liable for contest entries that are entered by other than human means (such as by an automated computer program or any non-human mechanism, entity, or device), in excess of the stated limit, or for entries that are illegible, late, destroyed, lost, misplaced, stolen, misdirected, tampered with, incomplete, deleted, damaged, incomplete, or otherwise not in compliance with these official rules, and all such entries will be disqualified. By participating in the contest, each registrant/entrant agrees and acknowledges to be bound by these official rules, all Sponsor-related terms and conditions, as well as the decisions of Sponsor which are final and binding in all respects; to waive any rights to claim ambiguity with the official rules, and that Sponsor and its affiliated entities shall have no responsibility or liability (including, but not limited to, liability for any property loss, damage, personal injury or death) in connection with: participation in contest; acceptance/possession (including, but not limited to, delays by shipping companies), defects, and/or use/misuse of a prize; discontinued prizes; human error; incorrect or inaccurate transcription of registration and/or account information; any technical malfunctions of the telephone network, computer online system, computer dating mechanism, computer equipment, software, or internet service provider utilized by Sponsor; interruption or inability to access Sponsor, its affiliated entities and their respective websites, or any online service via the internet due to hardware or software compatibility problems; any damage to participant’s (or any third person’s) computer and/or its contents related to or resulting from any part of the contest; any lost/delayed data transmissions, omissions, interruptions, defects; and/or any other errors or malfunctions, even if caused by the negligence of Sponsor or any one of its affiliated entities. Each participant further agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Sponsor and its affiliated entities from and against any and all liability resulting or arising from the contest and to release all rights to bring any claim, action or proceeding against Sponsor or its affiliated entities, and hereby acknowledge that Sponsor and its affiliated entities have neither made nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation or guarantee, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to a prize, including express warranties provided exclusively by a prize supplier that may be sent along with a prize. Sponsor and/or its affiliated entities shall in no event be liable for any injury, damage, loss, expense, accident, delay, inconvenience or irregularity that may be caused or contributed to (1) by any wrongful, negligent or unauthorized act or omission on the part of any of the prize suppliers or any of their agents, servants, employees or independent contractors, (2) by any wrongful, negligent or unauthorized act or omission on the part of any other person or entity not an employee of Sponsor, or (3) by any other cause, condition or event whatsoever beyond the control of Sponsor or its parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies. Title of this contest may change during the contest. ANY ATTEMPT BY A PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSORS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK ALL LEGAL AND EQUITABLE REMEDIES FROM AND AGAINST ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Additionally, any attempt to cheat the contest, as determined at the sole discretion of the Sponsor, may result in immediate disqualification of the entrant, as well as other possible consequences, including disqualification from any and all existing and future contests. In the event of a dispute, entries made by Internet will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the username submitted at time of entry. “Authorized account holder” is defined as the natural person who is assigned to a username in the Sponsor website system.

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Earth Day Giveaway

By Linda at 6:38 pm on Tuesday, April 12, 2011

EARTH DAY GIVEAWAY! What are you doing to make the world a better place? Share your story, accompanied by a photo or video about your contribution to the world in our online contest to win a year supply of tea + a gift basket valued at over $500, containing tea goodies from Art of Tea & all natural beauty products from Planet Botanicals! Click Here to Join the Yummy Fun.

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