Embossed Direct Printing on 50 Glass Bottles

A birthday brief with one clear instruction: every drink served that night should arrive in a bottle carrying artwork from the game he plays.

Sun Studio printed 50 glass bottles direct — a skull threaded with glowing veins, built up in relief so you can feel it under your fingers.

Glass bottle printed direct with a skull design built up in relief so it can be felt

Project snapshot

Client: A private commission
Location: Dubai
Material: Glass bottles
Printing service: Cylindrical & 360° printing
Application: Bottles served at a private party
Quantity: 50 bottles
Production: Direct UV printing with artwork built up in relief

The brief

The artwork was the point of the evening, and the design had to feel physical rather than read as a picture on a bottle.

One of the finished bottles with its cap fitted, the blue skull and cracked red lava artwork printed onto the clear glass

Our approach

The bottles were printed direct rather than labelled, so the artwork belongs to the glass.

The design was built up in layers to give actual relief, so the raised veins can be felt as well as seen.

Production detail

Fifty bottles is a quantity most print houses will not quote. Screen printing glass needs a screen for every colour, and on artwork like this the setup alone costs more than the whole job at that volume — which is how a minimum order quantity gets invented.

A label was the obvious fallback and the wrong answer: it announces itself as a sticker the moment a guest picks the bottle up.