Chinese tea · checkerboard and one red
The name comes in on a red sticker banner
Thirty-four Chinese teas on cream paper with a checkerboard band across the diagonal, a red sidestripe under it and the name brushed into a die-cut banner.
Chinese tea · checkerboard and one red
Thirty-four Chinese teas on cream paper with a checkerboard band across the diagonal, a red sidestripe under it and the name brushed into a die-cut banner.
3 teas · 3 categories
Skate graphics are made to be layered, scuffed and covered over, which means they are designed to survive being partly hidden. That is a useful model for tea, which is also handled, poured over and used up rather than kept. The checkerboard is a grid put in on the diagonal so it functions as a baseline for a heap of leaf that has no straight edges of its own. One red does all the emphasis, and it goes into the banner and the sidestripe so the name reads first and everything else reads second. The scribbled notes are set by hand because a board gets written on, and printing them cleanly would remove the only human mark on the sheet. The house-safe version keeps the band, the stripe and the script alone, which is enough to hold a page.