Concept work, an invented brand

HIYA, sparkling tea shot like a friend had the camera

A cold-brewed sparkling tea for people who stopped drinking soda but still want something cold and fizzy at the table. Three flavours: jasmine, hibiscus and smoky lapsang. The can is a plain slim aluminium can; the brand lives in one loose brush wordmark and a single stroke of flavour colour. The photography is candid on purpose: direct flash at night, hard sun by day, half-eaten plates and real hands, the way a friend would shoot it, not a studio.

Toolset: Nano Banana 2 for the can design (eight graphic directions, one picked, then locked as a master reference) and every shot around it, with the three flavours made by editing only the stroke colour and the name. Kling 3 for the pour, an ElevenLabs crack and hiss for the opening, ffmpeg for the edit, and a 2× upscale on every final.

The pour, with sound.

The crack, cut on the sound.

At the table, after dark

Three sparkling tea cans in jasmine, hibiscus and lapsang on a late dinner table with half-eaten plates, a hand reaching in — Three flavours, one late dinner. Direct flash, 35mm grain.

Three HIYA cans pushed into a steel bucket of crushed ice at a house party with confetti — House party: the ice bucket.

A hand with silver rings holding up a hibiscus can at a crowded bar in flash — At the bar.

A freshly opened can with the tab up and a curl of cold mist rising from the mouth — Just opened, cold mist rising.

Out in the sun

A hand pouring sparkling jasmine tea from the can into a glass of ice on a sunlit cafe table — The pour, hard afternoon sun.

Three cans in a canvas tote on a sunlit park bench beside a newspaper and sunglasses — Park bench, all three flavours.

A woman in a white linen shirt and jeans walking with a leather tote, holding a jasmine can — On the street.

Macro of black brush lettering reading HiYA and a burnt amber stroke on a cold wet can — The wordmark, up close.

HIYA is an invented brand, designed for this portfolio. The product, the photography and the sound are all original work.