Chinese tea · acid yellow, magenta, chrome
The leaf sits in the eye of the burst
Thirty-four Chinese teas shot straight, then dropped into a black field of drawn rays, halftone and loose hardware. The graphics are loud, the leaf is untouched.
Chinese tea · acid yellow, magenta, chrome
Thirty-four Chinese teas shot straight, then dropped into a black field of drawn rays, halftone and loose hardware. The graphics are loud, the leaf is untouched.
7 teas · 5 categories
The palette is three flats and nothing else — black ground, acid yellow, magenta — with chrome standing in as a fourth. Everything ornamental here is drawn: rays, dots, spikes, bolts, so the single photographic thing on the page is the tea, and the eye lands there by default. Hardware is treated as decoration, the way metal is treated on a garment, which is where the visual reference comes from. Loud graphics usually flatten whatever they surround, so the burst is kept strictly behind the product and never crosses it. Chinese tea survives that treatment because the material is already high contrast on its own — pressed black blocks, gold buds, jade blades — and it needs no soft backdrop to read as itself. Under the noise the words stay small and factual: type, origin, fermentation, nothing more.