Oliver Weiss Illustration Blog

I have created my first tableware design for Ritzenhoff – a coffee mug in the My Darling series.

Ritzenhoff is a leading producer of tableware and glassware in Germany, turning around over 30 million items a year. I first crossed their path back in the early Nineties when they brought designers’ collections on the market, and artists like James Rizzi and Philippe Petit-Roulet supplied unique designs for beverage products.

Today, some 300 designers from across the globe are contributing for Ritzenhoff. Needless to say, I am truly happy to have my own mug with the company now.

My design shows the faces of a man and a woman, intertwined in a pretty complex setup using bright colors, and suggesting love, summer, travel, food, nature, and fun. The cylinder-shaped packaging design shows the man’s torso as he is floating. >MORE

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I have created a great variety of packaging designs for empty tin boxes that (blush) have turned out almost too cool to bear :-) (And they feel good, too!)

The designs come in different shapes and sizes – for coffee, tea, sugar, flour, rice, pasta, cookies, bread, cereal, pet food, toys, gifts and bottles.

Each box design uses geometrical shapes for the background, and hand-drawn illustrations that visualize its content. The boxes are currently being sold in selected toom stores, a retail chain and a division of REWE, Germany’s second largest food retailer. >more