BumbleBlooms Wildflower Seedballs - and their New Bumblebee Watercolour Logo

 I’m excited to share BumbleBlooms’ new packaging now features one of my bumblebee illustrations. BumbleBlooms are a small business based in Edinburgh, who make mindfully-produced wildflower seed balls which grow flowers that bees absolutely love. This simple product makes it easy to help bees and other pollinators.

“As the world faces a climate crisis and mass extinction of the critical insects that most plants rely on for survival, there has never been a greater need for products that make a real difference. BumbleBlooms does just that!”

They are also proudly vegan and their packaging is fantastically plastic free. I am overjoyed to support and help promote such a wonderful business.

Check out the BumbleBlooms website HERE

H2EAU LONDON // Packaging Labels & Product Samples

During late 2017 through to early 2018 I had the utmost pleasure in working with company "GBBB aka Great British Beauty Brands", to help brand their new beauty product range, H2EAU London. I worked together with a talented graphic designer to produce a series of vibrant illustrations to adorn their Daily Rituals product labels.

The fragrances are: acai & blueberry, coconut & pineapple, cucumber & mint, watermelon & orange and pink grapefruit & cranberry,

When the products were complete, GBBB were wonderfully kind and sent me a box full of full-sized "samples" to try for myself! It was amazing to see my work on the finished products, in situ, and in real life, as opposed to in a photo on a screen. I am thrilled with how they turned out.

H2EAU is a new brand from a long-standing British company. They aim to use only high quality ingredients, and currently have a range of size products in five different fragrances. All of which have a very luxurious feel and smell INCREDIBLE! They are all free from animal ingredients and not tested on animals, making this initial range completely vegan friendly. Personally, I would compare the quality of the Daily Rituals range as similar to that of Bodyshop in the UK.

Their range currently includes: indulgent body butter, soothing body lotion, aromatic body mist, luxurious body wash, gentle body scrub and luxurious hand wash.


To see my previous post showing the development of the illustrations, click here!

H2EAU Daily Rituals range is (C) H2EAU London 2019

www.h2eaulondon.com

Artwork (C) Amy Holliday 2019

www.amyholliday.co.uk

H2EAU LONDON // Beauty Packaging Illustrations

During late 2017 through to early 2018 I had the utmost pleasure in working with company "GBBB aka Great British Beauty Brands", to help brand their new beauty product range, H2EAU London. I worked together with a talented graphic designer to produce a series of vibrant illustrations to adorn their Daily Rituals product labels.

I actually worked on and produced the whole series of illustrations twice. I first completed concept pieces to be displayed at an exhibition show. After receiving feedback from the customers/guests at the show, we were able to use the comments to develop the designs further into the most effective, eye-catching designs possible. In total, I produced a set of seven final ingredient illustrations. The following are some stages of development...

 

From initial sketches, the designs then developed to the rough colour stage. These became the concept illustrations used at the show. Here are two designs that later changed quite a bit.

The final stage was to refine each design further, including shape and colours, and then redo from scratch at a higher quality.

Grapefruit & Cranberry:

Mint & Cucumber: 

Watermelon & Orange: 

Pineapple & Coconut:

Acai & Blueberry: 

When the products were complete, GBBB were wonderfully kind and sent me a box full of full-sized "samples" to try for myself! See my post showing finished product samples here!

H2EAU is a new brand from a long-standing British company. They aim to use only high quality ingredients, and currently have a range of size products in five different fragrances. They are all free from animal ingredients and not tested on animals, making this initial range completely vegan friendly.

H2EAU Daily Rituals range is (C) H2EAU London 2019

www.h2eaulondon.com

Artwork (C) Amy Holliday 2019

www.amyholliday.co.uk

POWER SAUCE by Essentis Berlin // Packaging Illustration for Organic Chilli Sauce

This week I had the pleasure of working with lovely people behind "Essentis" - a new brand created by chef Nicolas Petrucci. The brand "Essentis" shares its name with the popular biohotel in Berlin where Nicolas is head chef. Their first product is a pro-biotic and organic chilli-based sauce named "Power Sauce" and I was asked to create some vibrant chilli and mango-inspired 

artwork to adorn the product labels.

The initial inspiration came from my own chilli pepper painting, which I used as a base to add more colourful watercolour splashes to make it that little bit more exciting(!) and painted new mango slices to match. As you can probably tell, this was a lot of fun to paint - 

bold colour and abstract splashes? Right up my street.    

The first concept labels: 

I love how the typography works with the artwork. Here are the simplified labels on the first wave of packaging, ready to go: 

And finally, a wonderfully designed Power Sauce poster using my artwork:

Essentis Biohotel - http://essentisbiohotel.de/en/

 Artwork (C) Amy Holliday 2016

Photography (C) Essentis by Nicolas Petrucci 2016

Twinings Infusions Packaging // My Watercolours!

These little mock-ups are a personal experiment I did earlier this year but silly me forgot to post them! I wanted to see how my style would look gracing the front of the lovely Twinings tea packaging. These fruits and herbs are from my November 2013 project: (here) and I added my own watercolour wash for the backgrounds.

I think the Twinings range kind of suits my watercolours...what do you think?
 

Artwork (C) Amy Holliday 2014. Please do not use without permission.

Tea Packaging // Appetizing Ingredients: Juicy Strawberries

I was recently thrilled to be approached by a prestigious client with the prospect to provide the new illustrations for a certain rather large tea brand's new range of packaging...

See previous post for the full story here. Previously posted ingredients:

Spicy Ginger

Refreshing Mint

...here is my final series of the three; juicy, rosy strawberries...

These are my favourites from the three series...I love strawberries! It was torture having the ripe, juicy strawberries in front of my nose while I worked on them. I have painted strawberries before although it was a long time ago (2011) so it was great to have a fresh attempt at them using new techniques.

All images are (C) Amy Holliday. Please do not use without permission. 

Tea Packaging // Appetizing Ingredients: Refreshing Mint

I was recently thrilled to be approached by a prestigious client with the prospect to provide the new illustrations for a certain rather large tea brand's new range of packaging...

See previous post for the full story here. Other ingredients:

Spicy Ginger

...here is the second series of the three; cool, refreshing mint.

All images are (C) Amy Holliday and are not to be used without permission.

Tea Packaging // Appetizing Ingredients: Spicy Ginger

I was recently thrilled to be approached by a prestigious client with the prospect to provide the new illustrations for a certain rather large tea brand's new range of packaging...

I was interviewed at two stages and was asked to complete a trial brief. I made it though to the final stages although sadly, in the end I was not chosen as the final illustrator for the project.

However! Completing this brief was very exciting for me as it was an utter dream-come-true to be considered for such a wonderful project with such an amazing client. It has left me feeling very optimistic for the future.     

I was asked to complete three series of fresh, juicy, appetizing ingredients shown at various angles, similar to my previous lemon studies.

Here are the first of my ingredients. Warm, spicy root ginger...

 Two more ingredient studies coming very soon...

Images are (C) Amy Holliday. Please do not use without permission.