The Oberoi Sukhvilas
The Nectar of Punjab, a summer cocktail menu. The client had AI-generated photos of each drink and wanted something old-school and luxurious. I turned the photos into one etched illustration set, generated every ingredient in the same style, and designed the printed menu around them.
What I was given.
The client sent AI-generated photos of the seven cocktails, with each drink’s name, ingredients and story. They wanted the menu to feel old-school and luxurious.
Finding the style.
I screenshotted only the drink from each image and gave ChatGPT references for the style I was after. I made a few illustration styles, and once we locked one, I made every drink in it from its original image.
Client image
Drink only
Etched style
Eight drinks, one style.
The same etched line, light and paper for every glass. Here each one is shown at its real relative size, so a rocks glass sits shorter than a highball.
The cover.
The menu opens on the cover and two short story pages before the drinks.
The cover and The Nectar of Punjab, the menu’s opening story.
Every drink, taken apart.
For each cocktail I generated its ingredients separately, in the same style, and set them beside the glass with fine leader lines, so a guest can read the drink at a glance.
One structure, seven pages.
Every page follows the same layout, so seven very different drinks read as one menu.
I kept it slightly art deco, minimal and quiet: a fine gold frame, Nocturne Serif for names and labels, Switzer Light for the story, and room around each drawing.
The Maharaja Highball and Rooh.
Building a page.
Each page came together in the same order. Gulnar shows it: frame, name and mood, story, drink, then its ingredients.
- Frame
- Name and mood
- Story
- Drink
- Ingredients
Cocktail creation and supplied narrative: Khushnaz Raghina, Brand Ambassador for Moët Hennessy India.