Illustration for brands & business products
FAVERSHAM
HOP FESTIVAL
EXCLUSIVE CUP DESIGN
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Design, produce, and deliver custom illustrated drinkware and products to your customers.
​Designer Yaiza Gardner creates products that embody your brand, builds loyalty, and makes sustainability part of the experience using hand drawn illustration, and digital processes for sustainable products such as eco cups.
Fed up of paying for waste collection and cleaning up cups after hours?
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​Single-use cups are wasteful, flimsy, and pollute our towns and seas. Bioplastics don’t solve the problem — they still linger with unknown risks to our environment. ​
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Eco cups are made from sturdy recycled plastic, they won't blow away outside, can be used multiple times and recycled at end of life.
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We can use a deposit system, offer promotions and collaborate with sponsors to help fund the scheme.
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Branded reusable drinkware puts your identity directly into their hands — every sip becomes a reminder of your brand with an improved drinking experience. Don't let this opportunity blow away!
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Contact me to create your own branded product
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1 CUP. 4 DRINKS MEASURES.
Launched in 7 venues in Faversham for the Hop Festival weekend. A single cup with four drinks measurements to cater for beer, spirits and wines.
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A modern reinterpretation of heraldic crests, featuring hand-drawn floral and leaf motifs that blend tradition with contemporary design.​
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These cups will be reused for the festival each year.
DESIGN. BUILD. DELIVER
Illustration and product delivery managed by Yaiza.
Finished products from 50p including design & manufacture
(based on quantity)
Cups are shatterproof with nucleated bases keeps drinks fresher for longer
Customise the cup size and add drinks measurements
Backed by 20 years in design, we’ll craft a product that captures your brand’s story.
Reusable product and added value with good design.
A £1 deposit scheme pays for the initial cost of the eco cup set-up and Easy to reorder more with the same design or an amended version.
They can be used in pub glass washers, and stacked once dry
40cl cups
HARBOUR GIN
​Designing for reusable illustrated drinkware stemmed from working in a New Zealand bar where bespoke glassware was part of the drinking experience. In outdoor events bringing your own cup was the norm. If you didn't have your own cup, you couldn't get a drink. The cup epitomised design, individuality and sustainability, single-use cups were not as prominent as they are here.
Back in the UK, seeing drinks in single-use cups was commonplace and so was the waste. The cups are so flimsy the drink gets spilt or they topple over.
If a group of four drink three pints, this equates to 12 cups that are thrown away. We should be encouraging re-fill. I approached local pubs to understand the waste issues, and see if there was an opportunity to create a better product.
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Single-use cups are wasteful, flimsy, and pollute our oceans. Bioplastics don’t solve the problem — they still linger in the environment. So why are we still accepting this?
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Combining great design with an eco cup produces a unique sustainable drinking product. Transform your business space and help change user behaviour, the natural world all from a single cup.
MY STORY
What about biodegradable plastic cups?
Bio plastics cups are greenwashing a wider issue. They have caused an influx of waste that doesn't biodegrade without commercial composting, and they add waste bulk to our soils with unknown long-term risks to our environment.
A pub client orders 30,000 biodegradable plastic cups in a season. Multiply this across venues in the UK and the waste problem escalates. Worldwide it is a global problem. The production of takeaways still consumes vast energy and resources, worsening the problem.
The plastic-looking cup referred to as PLA or TPLA based compostable plastics needs additional heat for long periods or it won’t break down and confused users dispose them with other plastic products that contaminate the recycling poly process. A high number of councils won't accept them in compost bins so they end up in landfill.
…or worse in our seas.
Contributing to another waste stream is not the answer and the extra waste is a responsibility the hospitality sector has to pay to remove, but as a lot of these cups are take-away who knows where they end up.
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From October 2025, a new UK law – Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) will require all businesses using packaging to pay government-set recycling fees. This means every takeaway cup, lid, greaseproof paper, napkins and paper bags will carry an extra cost.
Time to design systems that make it easier to re-use and reduce waste.
Offering a refillable cup system, reduces the quantity of cup waste and promotes your business and raises awareness of waste.
Decorate your drinkware with an illustration that personalises your venue.
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DESIGN FOR:
a circular future
Full design
& production service
Circular economy through the re-fill & £1 deposit scheme system.
A space to promote, add sponsors!
Zero plastic waste
affecting wildlife
Improved drinking experience
Easy to reorder with the new design or update with new elements.. Happier fish all round.
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THE PEARSON'S
ARMS
Bespoke design catered for your product.
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SAY NO
TO SINGLE-USE CUPS
THE OLD NEPTUNE
Ask for reusable cups at the bar and help drive change.
SOUTH
QUAY
SHED
A commission to produce an illustration that encompasses the harbour scenery, and the facilities of the South Quay Shed in Whitstable, incorporating sponsorship logos from their partners.
Manufactured in pint and half pint cups, a positive move to reduce their single-use plastic waste.
ADD SOME SUNSHINE
Fancy a drink?
Bespoke design
Outdoor events
Unique products
Pubs, parks & beer gardens
