Chrome drip

Chinese tea · shop 07

Liquid metal with an oil slick edge

No house name on this shopfront, only a surface: thick poured chrome, one amber drop of brewed tea falling out of it.

Chinese and latin lettering modelled as thick poured chrome with iridescent pink and green edges, over dark pressed tea clumps, with an amber drop below

Seven categories, cast in metal

34 teas · 7 categories

Green teaGreen tea5 teasOolongOolong14 teasRed tea (hongcha)Red tea (hongcha)6 teasPu-erhPu-erh4 teasWhite teaWhite tea2 teasTea paste (chagao)Tea paste (chagao)2 teasBuckwheat (not a tea)Buckwheat (not a tea)1 tea

The mark on cotton

All tees and hoodies →

Wear — Ālǐshān Zhū Lù CháĀlǐshān Zhū Lù CháWear — Bái JiānBái JiānWear — Passion-Fruit OolongPassion-Fruit OolongWear — Raw Pu-erh PasteRaw Pu-erh PasteWear — Ripe Pu-erh PasteRipe Pu-erh PasteWear — Dà Hóng PáoDà Hóng Páo

Why everything looks cast

There is no name over this shop, only a surface: chrome, poured thick, with an oil slick of pink and green along every edge. The lettering is modelled rather than drawn, so characters swell into blobs and the highlights do the work colour usually does. It sits on near white so the metal has something to reflect, and a single amber drop of brewed tea falls out of the bottom of the mark. Dark pressed Chinese teas are the reason for the treatment: their knotted, glossy clumps already look cast rather than grown. Around the mark the shop stays quiet, in plain grotesque and mono, because one loud object per page is the whole method.