KoffieTcacao editorial illustration.

Seven years of bringing coffee, tea and cacao origins to life. One region at a time.

Scope

Editorial illustration that helps readers connect more easily with origin, landscape and production.

Editorial illustration that helps readers connect more easily with origin, landscape and production.

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Client

KoffieTcacao

KoffieTcacao

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Year

2018 - 2025

2018 - 2025

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Challenge

How do you show where coffee begins, without making it literal or distant?

KoffieTcacao is a magazine for people who want to understand what's behind their cup. Not just the flavour, the place, the process, the hands involved.

Since 2018 I've been making the illustrations that accompany those stories. Each one is rooted in a specific origin, a region, a landscape, a way of growing and the job is always the same: make somewhere far away feel worth caring about.

The visual language had to be warm without being romantic. Specific without being documentary. Close enough that a reader in the Netherlands feels something about a harvest in Ethiopia or a plantation in Java, without ever having been there.

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Outcome

Stronger connection between reader, story and product