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Custom colourful illustrations for an annual chocolate Advent Calendar

Illustration depicting a colourful, winter scene of people ice skating surrounded by trees and holiday lights. In the background is a cityscape.

Client: The Violet chocolate Company

Category: Packaging, Graphic Design, Illustration

Scope: Illustration, Packaging Design, Hand Lettering

Additional Credits: Printing by NexGen Graphix & The Finish Line. Exterior box packaging printed by Georgette Packaging

The Violet Chocolate Company is an award-winning boutique chocolatier based out of Edmonton, Alberta. They use old-world chocolate crafting techniques to produce adventurous and unique flavoured bars. Along with their bars, they are well known for their yearly advent calendar which features bar bites, meltaways and truffles in a variety of unique flavours.

We’ve had the pleasure of designing their annual holiday advent calendar since they launched their first one in 2016. Every year we are tasked with creating a new scene or setting to highlight the yearly holiday theme. Two of our favourite custom illustrations were for the 2018 Holiday Sweetness calendar and the 2020 Cozy at Home calendar. The Violet Chocolate Company also commissioned us to design the 2019 and 2020 Valentine’s themed calendar, which features fun notes and puns behind each window.

Illustration depicting a colourful, winter scene of people ice skating surrounded by trees and holiday lights. In the background is a cityscape.
Advent Calendar illustration depicting colourful homes, Christmas trees and anthropomorphic animals.
Advent calendar illustration showing the text 2020 in large stacked text. The numbers are surrounded by festive, decorative elements and illustrations of people and woodland animals.
Advent calendar illustration showing people in a city park, surrounded by a border of flowers and trees. In the right corner, handlettered text says "You're My Favourite".
Advent calendar illustration. Handlettered cursive text reads "Holiday Sweetness for the Season" surrounded by fine line illustrations of festive elements.
Photograph showing flat, unfolded printed versions of three advent calendars
Photograph showing several printed cards.
Photograph of printed advent calendar in box.
Close up photograph of advent calendar. First day of the calendar is open and the chocolate is next to the open flap.
Photograph of printed advent calendar.
Photograph of a printed advent calendar.
Photograph of a sketchbook page with the original handlettering sketch for advent calendar.
Photograph of advent calendar.
Photograph of branded boxes for advent calendars.
Photograph of advent calendar.
“Working with Lianne over the last four years has been an incredible experience! From initial concept discussions to the first draft through to the final artwork she has always ensured that our business or creative goals are kept balanced with budget and production restrictions. Her insights and knowledge of printing techniques have become a valuable expert opinion we are lucky to have in our roster. Working with a fellow entrepreneur you know she has the understanding of what it takes to make the most of a budget and help you to stand out from the competition. In every project we have done with Lianne, she has made the process fun, engaging, and effortless!”
— Maryanne & Rebecca - The Violet Chocolate Company

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