The challenge was to create a logo that can print very small and still be legible. For the website we used a large amount of copy to become part of the layout/design, we ended up doing a newspaper vibe with big text and halftone sepia images.
Cool wine labels coming soon in 2012…
Check it out: http://www.alheitvineyards.co.za/
Sounds a lot like Phoenix, but still such a gees band.
Beau Constantia featured nicely on The Dieline:
http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2011/10/28/beau-constantia.html
The De Kleine Wijn Koöp is a circle of friends, made up of sommeliers and graphic artists. As we deal with wine on a daily basis, every now and then we stumble upon a wine too small to fit into a particular winemaker’s series or simply too strange and unique to suit the commercial market. We then buy in these wines and dress it in a more ‘flip-flops and boardshorts’ than ‘black-tie’ fashion.
De Kleine Wijn Koöp is a playground for our creative expression, outside of the conventions of the wine-shop’s shelf. Unique and once-off wine offerings…
Website and label design we did for the good guys from Eric Todd - Homemade Sauces: http://www.erictodd.co.za/
Cool products page: http://www.erictodd.co.za/products/
Featured on the Fatpack blog: http://fatpack.co.za/?p=575
“Eric Todd’s products are produced in the picturesque Elgin Valley by a passionate food lover and farmer, using only the best fruit and chillies from his own crop. The idea for the manufacturing of these sauces was inspired by dear friends and great food connoisseurs, Eric and Winsome Todd from Nelspruit.”
De Kleine Wijn Koöp’s first wine made its way onto The Dieline:
http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2011/10/5/debutant.html
Who is this legend waving a WP rugby flag at a Mumford and Sons show in Glastonbury? Much respect!
Watch the video here: http://youtu.be/PA_JkaOtdbg (on 3:36 to be exact)
And no… the guitarist is not black.
The Bollinger Exceptional Wine Service Award has been established to bring focus and recognition of achievement to the growing group of professional wine waiters in South Africa.
View website: http://www.wineserviceaward.co.za/
We added 4 new bar codes to our collection:
http://www.fanakalo.co.za/bar-codes/ more coming soon…
<- This one is for Hijke yogurt tubs.
Just after 12pm on 31 June 2011, Sequillo launched its site with new ‘look’ for the year: http://www.sequillo.com/
And the labels came out sweet: http://www.fanakalo.co.za/sequillo/
“So how do you choose wine when faced with a wall of bottles in your supermarket or liquor outlet? If you’re not simply grabbing the cheapest bottle you can find (or, conversely, the most expensive, with the misconception that price equals quality), do you go with the tried-and-tested brands, perhaps even the ones your parents drank? Or the brands that advertise widely?”
Read the post.
A good friend’s family owns Yonder Hill wine farm. He took the pics and we built the site: http://www.yonderhill.co.za/
“The cellar was built in 1993, but greatly modernised four years later. The barrels, of French oak, are kept underground to allow for gravity-feeding and the cellar can house up to 800 of these containers, each with a capacity of 225 litres. All three red wines produced at Yonder Hill - the Inanda and Merlot - are matured here.”
After going on for 2 years, our studio would have never imagined that we’d be here by now. We really attribute a lot of our success to being featured on The Dieline.
Opstal’s new label for Sixpence made it’s way to the Dieline: http://wine.thedieline.com/blog/2011/5/30/sixpence.html
Check the foot moves at 1:50min!
We created an online store for Boer & Brit (only in SA) via the guys from Thisarmy who also owns Withtank. They’re online app store is called Ammo.
Have a look at the Boer & Brit online store: http://store.boerandbrit.com/ and buy some wine.
We build websites Withtank to help us get our/client’s designs on the net in a simple and clean way.
Tank is a content-management system that really cares about your content. Legible text. Big photos. Explorable navigation. All hooked up to solid information architecture principles. It’s a site-builder that is accessible from anywhere, updateable anytime - it couldn’t be easier or more efficient.
Here are some of the sites we’ve done:
http://www.epicofeverlasting.withtank.com/
http://www.sequillo.com/
http://www.stephanusrabie.com/
http://www.tokaradelicatessen.co.za/
http://www.opstal.co.za/
http://www.boerandbrit.com/
http://www.fanakalo.co.za/
http://www.goodvalueguru.withtank.com/
http://www.hijke.co.za/
http://www.thehearthfair.co.za/
http://www.amazink.co.za/
http://coralwetsuits.withtank.com/
http://vinovarsity.withtank.com/
This is what Tank is: http://withtank.com/support/general-questions/what-is-tank/
And their friendly hosting fees: http://withtank.com/pricing/
“Nestled in the “Long Street of Kayamandi”, AmaZink Eatery and the iKhaya Trust are housed in fresh, modest buildings that give hope to this Stellenbosch community.”
Click here to read the post.
WORDS: Remy Raitt | PHOTOS: Jac De Villiers
We did not even know about this post!
http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2011/3/23/zinkplaat-scratch-off-cd.html
Domain Gayda in the South of France asked us to re-design a label for them. It was so un-French that they decided it works! Figure Libre means Freestyle. Pack-shots coming soon…
The Dieline featured Trans-Karoo! Very happy indeed…
Awesome 80’s song, enjoy.
A nice tjune to kick-start the new year!
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