Chinese tea · four steps, no words
Brewing, drawn as an assembly step
Thirty-four Chinese teas shown as flat-pack instructions — the gaiwan exploded on dashed lines, four numbered steps, an allen key that has nothing to do with tea.
Chinese tea · four steps, no words
Thirty-four Chinese teas shown as flat-pack instructions — the gaiwan exploded on dashed lines, four numbered steps, an allen key that has nothing to do with tea.
3 teas · 3 categories
The whole grammar is wordless on purpose: outline drawings, dashed lines that show where a part travels, numbered steps and a figure with no face, so the same sheet works in any language. Gongfu brewing is exactly the kind of thing that survives translation badly and demonstration well — rinse, steep short, pour off completely, repeat. Drawing the gaiwan exploded also makes an honest point about the equipment: it is three simple parts, and the lid does the straining. Keeping the tea as the only photograph on a page of line art means the leaf is the one thing you are asked to look at closely. The allen key is a joke and is left in as one. Nothing here is styled to look difficult, because the method is not difficult.