KoffieTcacao editorial illustration.
For seven years I’ve illustrated coffee, tea and cacao stories for KoffieTcacao. Each illustration starts with a place, but the goal is always bigger than showing where something comes from. It is about making readers feel curious, connected and closer to the product in their cup.
For seven years I’ve illustrated coffee, tea and cacao stories for KoffieTcacao. Each illustration starts with a place, but the goal is always bigger than showing where something comes from. It is about making readers feel curious, connected and closer to the product in their cup.
For seven years I’ve illustrated coffee, tea and cacao stories for KoffieTcacao. Each illustration starts with a place, but the goal is always bigger than showing where something comes from. It is about making readers feel curious, connected and closer to the product in their cup.
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.
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
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