The Crystal Age of Packaging: AI Coca-Cola Bottles

The Crystal Age names an imagined historical era, like the Bronze Age: Coca-Cola for Vikings as an artefact from a past that never existed.

I once collected Coca-Cola bottles. In 2023, that interest became one of my first explorations of packaging design through AI-generated imagery. I imagined Coca-Cola for Vikings: familiar bottle silhouettes transformed into richly ornamented vessels, with carved patterns and the appearance of cut crystal.

The series invents a past that never existed. A recognisable contemporary brand meets an imagined northern world, turning the bottle into an object of fantasy. These images explore form, texture and visual character; they are conceptual visualisations, not manufactured packaging.