Chinese tea · dots set like keys
Everything on the page keeps a beat
Thirty-four Chinese teas laid on cream board between flat red and blue blocks and grids of dots spaced like typewriter keys, with the leaf left unframed in the middle.
Chinese tea · dots set like keys
Thirty-four Chinese teas laid on cream board between flat red and blue blocks and grids of dots spaced like typewriter keys, with the leaf left unframed in the middle.
3 teas · 3 categories
The device that runs this language is repetition at a fixed interval — dots, ticks and rules spaced evenly enough that the eye reads them as rhythm rather than as marks. It came from machines that struck one character at a time, and it stays useful because it fills a page without adding a single image. Chinese tea is made the same way: the same motion repeated over a leaf, rolled, fired, rolled again, until the shape holds. Cream board keeps the whole thing warm so the red and blue read as ink rather than as brand colour. Leaving the photograph unframed lets the irregular outline of the leaf sit against all that regularity, which is the only contrast the layout needs. The Italian service lines stay small, because the studio note is not the message.