A five-scene visual retrospective.
Five new illustrations revisit the historical subject and period of the original Flash presentation.
Coca-Cola’s Atlanta origins provide the historical setting. This newly illustrated street scene evokes the carriages and period atmosphere recalled from the presentation.
The soda-fountain era supplies a second visual setting: a period counter, glassware, and the drink served by the glass.
Horse-drawn transport is part of the visual language remembered by the project lead. This newly illustrated wagon suggests the period of expanding bottling and distribution.
The contour bottle brings a different silhouette into the sequence. Coca-Cola’s published history places its design and adoption in the mid-1910s.
The project was assembled in Flash in the early 2000s. This newly illustrated workstation evokes the period; it is not a screenshot of the missing original file.
A brand history told through Flash.
In the early 2000s, the team created a Flash presentation for Coca-Cola about the history of Coke, using old Atlanta imagery, carriages, and a sense of the brand’s early years.
The work brought historical storytelling and visual design together in a presentation assembled in Flash, before the Zyel brand.
Atlanta, soda fountains, bottling, and the bottle.
Coca-Cola’s own history traces its origins to Atlanta in 1886. Its account of the Asa Candler era describes the growth of soda-fountain sales, the expansion of bottling, and the later adoption of the contour bottle.
Coca-Cola’s published history provides background for the Atlanta, soda-fountain, bottling, and bottle scenes.
- Coca-Cola: company history — Official historical context.
- Coca-Cola: the Asa Candler era — Soda fountains, bottling, distribution, and the contour bottle.