Chinese tea · club crests and jersey print
A crest, an arched ribbon, a lot number
Thirty-four Chinese teas printed as club graphics: bottle green and rust, arched banner type, a ghosted number behind, and the leaf inside the crest window.
Chinese tea · club crests and jersey print
Thirty-four Chinese teas printed as club graphics: bottle green and rust, arched banner type, a ghosted number behind, and the leaf inside the crest window.
7 teas · 5 categories
Club graphics are made to be recognised from a distance and to wear badly on purpose. That is the whole grammar here: an arched ribbon, a condensed face bent to the arch, a crest window, a year, a lot number, all printed heavy enough to crack. Bottle green with rust and cream is a kit palette rather than a luxury one, and it happens to sit well against dark twisted leaf and golden tips. Chinese tea has its own version of this loyalty — people argue about mountains, harvest years and roast levels the way they argue about seasons and squads. Putting a rock oolong inside a crest states that allegiance plainly instead of dressing it in ceremony. The distressed print also tells the truth about age: a crest that has been washed fifty times reads like a tea that has been kept fifteen years. Nothing here is precious, and the leaf is still the thing in the middle of the badge.