Client

Café Beistegui

Location

Mar del Plata, Argentina

year

2021

Family of three coffee beans from Vietnam, Bourbon Amarillo from Brazil and Colombia with illustrated labels

line illustration of badminton Vietnamese female players, red white and blue

Badminton is one of the most popular sports in Vietnam and this coffee is especially good for athletes so one thought led to the other and this pattern-like action scene came together very effortlessly.

photo of the Vietnam coffee beans bag with an illustrated label with illustration of badminton Vietnamese female players

The Bourbon Amarillo label is inspired by a painting of Queen Elizabeth,1585 “Ermine” portrait by Nicholas Hilliard. It depicts a Brazilian woman dressed in a typical traditional costume elegantly sitting like the queen of Bourbon Amarillo and wearing the coffee beans like gems in her jewelry accompanied by her capuchin monkey friend called Cafezinho.

Illustration of a Brazilian woman with a typical white puffy dress and jewelry and a coffee plant
photo of a coffee bag with an illustrated label with an illustration of a Brazilian woman with a typical white puffy dress and jewelry and a coffee plant
illustration in blue, white and red, of a Colombian woman between coffee plants drinking a cup of hot coffee

The last piece of the set is inspired by a quote by a Pope in the1600 that after first tasting coffee -a drink accused of being a work of the devil- was so ecstatic that ended up baptizing it. It goes “This Satan’s drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it.” — Pope Clement VIII.