Chinese tea · stickers and syrup
Serious leaf, unserious page
Thirty-four Chinese teas cut out as stickers and dropped onto pink and mint, with bubble lettering, cartoon bees and donuts around the edges. The tea is the only photograph in the frame.
Chinese tea · stickers and syrup
Thirty-four Chinese teas cut out as stickers and dropped onto pink and mint, with bubble lettering, cartoon bees and donuts around the edges. The tea is the only photograph in the frame.
7 teas · 5 categories
Chinese tea is usually sold with a lowered voice — wood, ink, mist, a long silence — and that tone quietly tells a lot of people this is not for them. This shop takes the opposite bet: bubble letters, four colours at full saturation, a bee eating a donut. Nothing about the tea is dumbed down in the process, because the leaf stays a real photograph at real scale and keeps its own name in pinyin and characters; only the packaging around it is loud. The cutout outline is doing structural work, not just decoration, since it lets a pile of dark twisted leaf sit on a hot pink field without disappearing into it. Drips and halftone give the flat colour a printed feel, so the page reads as a sticker sheet rather than a screen. If a first cup of Da Hong Pao arrives with a cartoon bee attached, that is a fair trade for someone trying it at all.