Tea Lion 茶狮 (Китайский чай и танец льва) - logo design

Logo design for a Russian Lion Dance crew and their Chinese teahouse. From the start I had a challenge to combine several absolutely different symbols in one logo, first of all the client wanted to see a steam of freshly brewed tea that coming out of Gaiwan (Chinese tea brewing bowl). Besides that the logo should somehow represent the Lion Dance as well. Challenge accepted!

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As usual I want to share with you my logo development process. First I started with some tea.

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Tea + steam + Gaiwan

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The Lion

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Rough sketch of the idea.

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Trying to combine both elements in one design.

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