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"Clever Curry" soup label

"Hot Blends" Soup

Botanica's "Hot Blends" were a line of powdered soups already on the market when I started working with the company. As my second project for Botanica back in 2000 I was asked to design new labels for the soups based on photographic collages.

Packaging label for chocolate-covered frozen bananas

Chocolate-Covered Frozen Fruit

This label is for one of two chocolate-covered frozen fruit products. The cocoa plant in the upper-left is watercolor pencil on heavy paper. The design in the middle is a combination of scanned pencil graphics and a digitally fabricated brick of chocolate with Botanica's logo stamped on it. The bag in the upper-right was built using partial images of a burlap bag with the text superimposed digitally. The chocolate covering the bananas in the lower-right was drawn by hand in Photoshop using a digital tablet.

First draft of loose leaf black tea label

Black Tea

In early 2004 I finished my last project for Botanica and Caffe D'Amore, consisting of two labels for loose leaf tea products. This design wasn't selected for use on the product label, but standing on its own it's my favorite. The snowflake and flames were built using photos of simple ink drawings and overlaying multiple copies about the center of the image. The image in the background was created by hand in Photoshop. The leaves around the border were picked and photographed outside my dorm at Stanford.

Tropical black tea label

Tropical Black Tea

Part of the same project as the draft above, this was a later revision of the label for the "tropical" black tea product. The fruit was photographed under my halogen desk lamp in my dorm room. The coconut halves were prepared by compositing two photographs, one which captured contrasts in the husk and another which captured contrast in the meat. The milk of the coconut was drawn by hand. The background image below the fruit collage is an altered photograph of the skin of a mango and the waterfall image on the right-hand side is taken from a photograph I took in a park in Paris while studying overseas in Spring 2003.

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