Black belt & pine needles

This work is a typography poster about Shotokan Karate, which sport I use to practice for 9 years. I designed the traditional japanese symbols for 'karate-do' and 'shotokankju', inspired by teh iconic black belt and from the literal meaning of the characters. "Shoto" stans for pine-waves, the movements of japanese pine needles, "kara" means empty, and "te" means hand