Over the years, our coffee box has had many shapes and looks, like a child growing up. From our flat, one size fits all tasting box to our renewed and more diverse coffee box, our boxes have always been about more than just the delicious coffees we feature every month. At the same time, we’ve been looking at ways to reduce packaging waste, decrease shipping costs and make our boxes less bulky while still staying true to our commitment to work with local artists who add that extra touch.

Starting with our recently shipped December ’17 box, we began rolling out our much improved large box that is more lightweight and slimmer than its predecessor with brand new artwork from our longtime collaborator Ren Phillips who designed a beautiful space themed sticker to seal our box with.

Ren is an American artist who is based in Amsterdamn and whose work can be found in spectacular design hotels, in private homes, on the walls of cafés and on our coffee box. He previously designed our Los Angeles inspired pink sleeve and has now returned with a custom design that is both intricate and fun.

We recently sat down with him for a little retrospective of our collaboration and to pick his brains about his creative process.

The Coffeevine: This is your second artwork for The Coffeevine. How did it feel to know that your work traveled to thousands of coffee lovers all over the world this last year?

…the idea that astronauts could possibly get their Coffeevine boxes delivered to, say, the ISS is pretty cool.