Chinese tea · one disc, one gold, white ground
One circle is enough to hold a tea
A red disc, a flat gold, a white page and nothing else. Thirty-four Chinese teas each reduced to a single emblem with the leaf at its centre.
Chinese tea · one disc, one gold, white ground
A red disc, a flat gold, a white page and nothing else. Thirty-four Chinese teas each reduced to a single emblem with the leaf at its centre.
3 teas · 3 categories
A circle is the shape that survives being made small, so an emblem built from one disc still works at the size of a stamp on the bottom of a tin. Red and gold are used flat, at full strength, with no gradient and no outline, because the moment either one is shaded it stops being a mark and starts being an illustration. The leaf is placed at the centre of the geometry rather than beside it, which makes the photograph part of the emblem instead of a picture the emblem sits on. White space around the disc is left wide, since a mark needs air to read as a mark. Chinese tea is already sold under a great many seals and stamps, and this shop asks what happens when there is only one. Type stays small, low and quiet so nothing argues with the circle.