Ministerio del Café

Dragon Rouge

Small gestures create great coffees

Ministerio del Café is a specialty coffee brand from Nicaragua. It advocates fair compensation for all actors in its supply chain.

The brand is built on a simple idea: small gestures create great coffees. From the farm to the cup, every action matters. Without careful work, daily attention, and the natural ecosystem that makes cultivation possible, there is no great coffee.

Through its visual identity, Ministerio del Café highlights everyone involved in production, including the most invisible contributors. Insects, essential for pollination, become the first symbols of this chain.

This conviction is expressed visually through pointillism: each illustration is made of thousands of tiny dots, like the many gestures that come together to create a great coffee. A simple and direct way to express the brand’s founding idea: the smallest actors and the smallest actions make excellence possible.

 

Dragon Rouge

Credits:
Illustrator: Steeven Salvat
Client:
MINISTERIO DEL CAFÉ