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Streamline moderne

Chinese tea · shop 34

Dark tea drawn at speed

Winged emblems, a red lozenge badge and speed lines pulled across warm cream. The shop borrows the drawing habits of mid-century industrial design and applies them to leaf.

Warm cream poster with a winged R emblem, steel blue and red streamline swooshes, halftone speed lines, and a red lozenge badge beneath three dark pu-erh clumps

Seven categories on the timetable

34 teas · 7 categories

Green teaGreen tea5 teasOolongOolong14 teasRed tea (hongcha)Red tea (hongcha)6 teasPu-erhPu-erh4 teasWhite teaWhite tea2 teasTea paste (chagao)Tea paste (chagao)2 teasBuckwheat (not a tea)Buckwheat (not a tea)1 tea

Wear with the wing badge

All tees and hoodies →

Wear — Ālǐshān Zhū Lù CháĀlǐshān Zhū Lù CháWear — Bái JiānBái JiānWear — Passion-Fruit OolongPassion-Fruit OolongWear — Raw Pu-erh PasteRaw Pu-erh PasteWear — Ripe Pu-erh PasteRipe Pu-erh PasteWear — Dà Hóng PáoDà Hóng Páo

Why everything here is moving

Mid-century industrial design gave every object a slipstream, whether it moved or not: a pencil sharpener got the same wings as a locomotive. We took that habit and pointed it at tea. The product sits on warm cream with halftone speed lines behind it, a lozenge badge under it and a winged roundel in the corner, so a handful of pressed leaf reads as chrome-era hardware. Pill shapes and steel blue against red keep the whole shop to three inks plus paper. It stays a joke about motion applied to a tea that spends years standing perfectly still.