The making of the Demilie creamed honey packaging

Overview• Process

Starting to work on packaging design.

Suggesting glass relief but it turns out to be too expensive to manufacture.

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Creating a series of bright stickers of various shapes.

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Drawing colored stripes with bright pictures representing flavors.

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Showing flowers and berries growing from underneath the lid.

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Rendering this idea in different styles.

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The client chooses the stripes. It is a popular design which means we need to add something unique. The result is packaging with a series of patterns.

A design with active geometry. Unflavored honey jars have stripes, strawberry and cherry honey has berry-shaped patterns and so on.

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Another design with mixed hand-made graphics.

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A perfectly edible packaging with an active lid.

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The client chooses the mixed pattern design. Elaborating, adding a window to show the contents.

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Creating a series of patterns and deciding how to separate the flavors.

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Receiving labels from the designer. Choosing the style of the text on the packaging.

Making the first approach.

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And the second.

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The art director chooses lettering. Asking the type designer to write Creamed Honey in the style of the bottom label.

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Looking at samples in real size.

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Sending the final layout to the artistic director, preparing files for printing.

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Putting together a presentation box in the same style.

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Fine-tuning the location of spots and the text according to the art-director’s comments.

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Making sure to assemble the boxes and test them both opened and closed as we go.

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The dimensions change slightly. Retypesetting and reassembling.

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Preparing the file for printing.