A single black route marker sits centred on a white field, reading SP 894 in bold capitals.
Visual Elements & Composition
The design is flat and vector-clean, built from just two colours: solid black and bare white. The dominant shape is a pentagon with a double outline, the classic silhouette of a road-shield marker. Inside it, the letters SP sit above the number 894, both set in the same heavy black weight so the sign reads at a glance. Nothing competes with the shield, so the white space around it does most of the work and the composition stays calm and balanced.
Meaning & Symbolism
SP is the designation used for state highways in São Paulo, the most populous state in Brazil, and the number that follows identifies an individual route on that network. Road markers like this one are the everyday signs that guide drivers across a country, so the artwork turns a piece of practical infrastructure into a graphic emblem of Brazilian travel and place.
Life on the Ceramic Mug
A mug is turned slowly in the hand, so the shield rotates as you drink, with the pentagon and its lettering passing across your line of sight with each turn. The high-contrast black on white reads clearly from arm's length on the desk, and the mug's curved wall carries the sign around its full circumference, like a marker set on a roadside post.
