Art direction for a specialized trading company that primarily deals in Taiwanese tea, Taiwanese food, and miscellaneous goods.
The company name, "Cypressimo" is a combination of the English word "Cypress" and the Italian word "-issimo" which means the highest quality. It embodies the founder's desire to achieve a prosperous society by delivering the best products to the world, and to be a presence that is as widely loved as the cypress tree.
The logo icon incorporates a cypress tree motif with a design that resembles two overlapping initial "C" The image of a cypress tree growing toward the sky represents the company's desire for business growth, and a sun motif is used as an design accent. The logo font uses a lowercase "i" to create a design that links with the sun motif of the logo icon. The corporate color was chosen from the traditional Japanese color "Chitose Midori" which is inspired by the color image of the evergreen cypress tree and represents "immutability" and "a green that will remain unchanged for a thousand years," in the hope of perpetuating the business.