Chinese tea · one black ink
Letters taken apart around the leaf
One black ink on warm paper, writing broken into strokes and dots, and the tea photographed straight from above in the middle of it. Thirty-four Chinese teas, one composition rule.
Chinese tea · one black ink
One black ink on warm paper, writing broken into strokes and dots, and the tea photographed straight from above in the middle of it. Thirty-four Chinese teas, one composition rule.
34 teas · 7 categories
Every design here breaks writing into parts and lets the parts stand around the tea. Strokes, hooks, dots and halftone patches are placed like a page set by hand and never straightened afterwards. The paper is warm, the ink is one black, and a small red seal with a single rust coloured chip are the only other marks on the sheet. That suits leaf photographed flat from above, because the loose characters give it a field to sit in without a frame. The name of the tea stays readable in every design, in hanzi and in pinyin, however far the rest of the page travels.