In this blog post, I’ll showcase my coffee-based models: a mug, a take-out cup, and a coffee bean bag. I used Blender for this. My venue idea combines a coffee house and nature. The design of these products will heavily involve flowers and plants. The name of this coffee house is Petaldrip.
I have little experience making models other than spheres in Blender, so I learned many new skills during this assignment.
Petaldrip Mug
For the mug, I planned to go for a handcrafted style. I considered making it a flower, but I liked how this model came out. I aimed for soft and wavy shapes to correspond to the brand. I modelled this mainly using shapes and tools in Blender, but I also used sculpting to add the wavy element to the top of the rim of the mug. This gives a subtle imagery of a flower and achieves that handcrafted look.
I took inspiration from the mugs photographed above, with their bumpiness and short size. I later used a similar style for my final mug design.
Petaldrip Takeaway Cup
Modelling the takeaway cup was more of a challenge than the mug. Making the cup was easy, but making the lid with all its details caused me to make mistakes that I had to fix afterwards. I wanted the cup to be simple so I could easily design the branding later in UV wrapping.
Petaldrip Coffee Beans
The coffee bean bag model was easy to achieve. I wanted to keep in theme with rounded edges, so I added a few modifiers in Blender to achieve this look. This bag model is a simpler redesign of the first bag I modelled. The first one had more details; however, later on, I realised it made it very difficult to UV unwrap and apply my branding design. So, I remade it much simpler but kept it with the same structure.
Petaldrip Coffee Bottle
For the design of the coffee bottle, I aimed to shape it to resemble a glass milk bottle. The material will be glass, and I plan for the label to be see-through and not fully wrapped around the bottle. The soft curves and edges correlate to the branding and shape theory.
References
Ebay (undated) Ceramic Irregular Flower 4Colors Coffee Cups Drinkware Kitchen*. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315458694946?norover=1&siteid=3&mkevt=1&mkcid=16&chn=psoc [10/05/25].