Chinese tea · torn paper issue
Type torn open around the leaf
The headline runs off the page, torn paper stacks up in layers, and the tea sits in the gap left between them. Dark ground, cream ink, one red mark per sheet.
Chinese tea · torn paper issue
The headline runs off the page, torn paper stacks up in layers, and the tea sits in the gap left between them. Dark ground, cream ink, one red mark per sheet.
34 teas · 7 categories
Hierarchy here comes from scale and damage rather than from order: the name is blown up until it leaves the frame, the small print stays small, and the reader assembles the page. Everything is built from torn edges, tape and paper grain, so a sheet looks handled instead of laid out. The ground is near-black with cream ink, and a single brick red is spent on one word, one dot or one chop, never more. The leaf is not illustrated; it is a photograph dropped into the paper stack, the one clean thing in the composition. Dense fermented teas take the treatment best, and the rest of the catalogue gets it anyway.