Longbottom Coffee and Tea commissioned Steven Noble to create custom illustrations for their logomark. This ship illustration symbolizes a tradition that has connected virtually all parts of the world in trade, commerce and shared enjoyment since the 16th century. The legendary story goes that a French naval officer, Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu, in 1723 embarked for Martinique with a 5 foot tall coffee plant. He protected the plant from a jealous fellow officer, fought off Tunisian pirates and sacrificed his water rations to bring his coffee plant to Martinique. This plant that would yield 19 million coffee trees in Martinique by 1777 and become the progenitor of the majority of coffee in the Americas.
