Spill the Quarantea!
The etymology of the English phrase "Spill the Tea" comes from the middle of the 90's. The phrase comes from "Spill the T," where the "T" stands for "truth" and it's typically used by females who love to gossip and want to know every dirty detail of other people's lives. Over time the "T" took the form of "tea" because tea is something that you can actually spill but also still sounds the same as if you were just saying the letter "T".
For this poster I used the phrase "spill the tea", experimenting with it, and the result was to become "spill the quarantea". The word quarantine helped a lot for the synthesis of the two words, quarantine and tea.
That's how the idea was born, to design a cup with tea spilling out of it with a group of apartment buildings. The buildings symbolise the new routine in the quaratine, the routine of us staying at home and staying healthy. But when we stay at home for a long time, cut off from the outside world, the desire to know the news becomes bigger. The desire to gossip. The desire to know to truth!
A Covid-19 poster.
