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Top-down art-directed flat-lay: the real loose tea

Top-down art-directed flat-lay: the real loose tea. The same setup for every tea in the catalogue, so the difference you see is the tea.

A teamotea tea photographed in a editorial setting: top-down art-directed flat-lay: the real loose tea

The catalogue, category by category

34 teas · 7 categories

Why the treatment never varies

Every one of the 34 teas is photographed the same way in this shop: top-down art-directed flat-lay: the real loose tea. The frame keeps a cup, minimal props, refined grid. What changes between teas is the tea, not the treatment — loose tea in the frame carries the difference. The set was built to work as magazine credibility; scannable. Nothing in these frames is a stock photograph: the tin is our own 100 g tin, printed with our own labels, and the tea inside it is the tea being sold. One visual language across a whole catalogue is harder than one striking image, and it is the part that makes a shelf look like a brand.