Space NK Shimmering Spice Candle

This project was for the renowned Space NK brand. They wanted a candle produced for their Christmas range using a ‘bauble’ pattern, of which was repeated throughout the range that year. The starting point of the project was providing us with an image of the baubles that wanted to use on the pattern. A special request from the client was that the light of the candle flame would gently shine through the baubles on the candle glass.

 

  • Packaging & Labels

  • Visual Mock-ups

  • Pattern Development

 

The baubles they provided us with were 4 metallic colours. A red, purple, green and blue colour. They wanted these baubles patterned around the packaging and the candle maintaining the metallic finish.

We started by evaluating the best approach to achieve the metallic finish on both the carton and candle glass, as well as establishing a pattern layout the client wanted achieve.

 

The Carton

The pattern on the carton needed to highlight the metallic baubles however the rest of the carton was to be an opaque matt finish. The metallic baubles were achieved by the carton material being a metallic card. This allowed colours printed directly onto the mirror side of the board to shine through. The areas without metallic are printed in black which blocks out the mirror shine on the board. A matte varnish was then applied to the non-metallic areas.

 

Glass Decoration Label

It was decided a label was the best option in terms of practicality and cost for the client to decorate the glass.

It was difficult because we initially wanted to use 4 different coloured foils to match the colour of the baubles. This however was impractical as the registration of the 4 different foils would be extremely difficult for the printers. We therefore decided to foil onto the label using a single silver foil, and then print on top of that using 4 colour process and white. This achieved a really nice finish, and when the candle burnt the flame lit up the baubles.