The making of the Demilie creamed honey packaging
Starting to work on packaging design.
Suggesting glass relief but it turns out to be too expensive to manufacture.
![demilie package process 1](demilie-package-process-1.jpg)
Creating a series of bright stickers of various shapes.
![demilie package process 2](demilie-package-process-2.jpg)
Drawing colored stripes with bright pictures representing flavors.
![demilie package process 3](demilie-package-process-3.jpg)
Showing flowers and berries growing from underneath the lid.
![demilie package process 4](demilie-package-process-4.jpg)
Rendering this idea in different styles.
![demilie package process 5](demilie-package-process-5.jpg)
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.
![demilie package process 6](demilie-package-process-6.jpg)
Another design with mixed hand-made graphics.
![demilie package process 7](demilie-package-process-7.jpg)
A perfectly edible packaging with an active lid.
![demilie package process 8](demilie-package-process-8.jpg)
The client chooses the mixed pattern design. Elaborating, adding a window to show the contents.
![demilie package process 9](demilie-package-process-9.jpg)
Creating a series of patterns and deciding how to separate the flavors.
![demilie package process 10](demilie-package-process-10.jpg)
Receiving labels from the designer. Choosing the style of the text on the packaging.
Making the first approach.
![demilie package process 11](demilie-package-process-11.jpg)
And the second.
![demilie package process 12](demilie-package-process-12.jpg)
The art director chooses lettering. Asking the type designer to write Creamed Honey in the style of the bottom label.
![demilie package process lettering](demilie-package-process-lettering.gif)
Looking at samples in real size.
![demilie package process 14](demilie-package-process-14.jpg)
Sending the final layout to the artistic director, preparing files for printing.
![demilie package process 13](demilie-package-process-13.jpg)
Putting together a presentation box in the same style.
![demilie package process 15](demilie-package-process-15.jpg)
![demilie package process 16](demilie-package-process-16.jpg)
Fine-tuning the location of spots and the text according to the art-director’s comments.
![demilie package process 17](demilie-package-process-17.jpg)
![demilie package process 18](demilie-package-process-18.jpg)
Making sure to assemble the boxes and test them both opened and closed as we go.
![demilie package process 19](demilie-package-process-19.jpg)
![demilie package process 20](demilie-package-process-20.jpg)
The dimensions change slightly. Retypesetting and reassembling.
![demilie package process 21](demilie-package-process-21.jpg)
![demilie package process 22](demilie-package-process-22.jpg)
![demilie package process 23](demilie-package-process-23.jpg)
![demilie package process 24](demilie-package-process-24.jpg)
Preparing the file for printing.