January 25th, 2012
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Inspired by acorn-induced headaches, slumbering students and slowtown camaraderie, City of Oaks is an exhibition where Fanakalo, a design and illustration studio just up the road from the Slee Gallery in Dorp Street, pays homage to their humble, yet historic surroundings with limited edition prints, lasercuts and designs. With the aid of some hyperactive squirrels, caffeine from the various local coffee shops….. and hopefully some aircon by the time that you read this, Fanakalo will let you see the Eikestad through their never-too-serious eyes.
Join us at 18:30 on the 1st of March at 101 Dorp Street for a glass of wine (…duh) and some nuts… Ends 14 March.
January 22nd, 2012
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Heston Blumenthal
The great wines help — many of them on a par with top international labels. Over the years I’ve seen how South African wine-making has changed; for a while, some of the more earthy vintages lost a bit of character as they chased international markets, but they are back to producing really interesting wines. It’s well worth dropping in to some of the boutique wineries for a tasting. I’m a particular fan of what is happening with the chenin blanc grape at Badenhorst in Swartland. I also like the distinctive and characterful labels coming from Eben Sadie’s winery in Swartland, and those of Boekenhoutskloof.
Read it here.
November 24th, 2011
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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/
October 25th, 2011
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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…
October 10th, 2011
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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.”
August 18th, 2011
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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/
July 1st, 2011
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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/
June 23rd, 2011
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How much do wine bottle labels really influence which wines you buy?
“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.
June 14th, 2011
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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.”
June 4th, 2011
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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.
Keep reading →
May 14th, 2011
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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.
April 8th, 2011
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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.co.za/
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.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/
April 4th, 2011
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“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
March 15th, 2011
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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…
March 12th, 2011
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The Dieline featured Trans-Karoo! Very happy indeed…
November 29th, 2010
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Fanakalo Visual Communication Studio in Stellenbosch took to task and came up with a wraparound label that serves its purpose well. The label had to be visually striking, as well as tactile.
Read more
November 19th, 2010
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The Dieline featured Helderberg Wijnmakerij:
http://wine.thedieline.com/blog/2010/11/18/helderberg-wijnmakerij.html
We designed a complete “wrap-around” label for Helderberg Wijnmakerij. Everything flows out of the barcode and creates this wood-cut feel. Check their website for a nice intro.
August 29th, 2010
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Bob got featured on the Lovely Package site:
http://lovelypackage.com/bobs-your-uncle/
August 4th, 2010
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We did some changes to the site, all the images are bigger and crisper and ideal for a big screen, enjoy!
March 12th, 2010
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New book coming out soon that we created with Neil Pendock.
Check the website for a preview…
February 26th, 2010
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2 new labels will be showing up sum-time in March.
Keep watching their website for news and updates.
November 25th, 2009
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There are 3 forest designs to choose from, pricing at R699 each.
Check them out.
October 13th, 2009
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It’s here!
All the way from Hybrid and looking shhhiny. The scratch-off ink came out nicely and works 100%.
Go try it out for yourself or check it here.
October 8th, 2009
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Funny and quirky wine label that’s linked with South African heritage.
Pack-shots coming soon…
With the body of a Boer and the nose of an Englishman – you can’t go wrong.
September 16th, 2009
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Nearly done with a nice corporate ID and interesting business card for a new deli opening in Stellenbosch.
September 11th, 2009
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We’re busy with a new CD design for Zinkplaat and definitely sure that nothing like this has been done in SA or the world for that matter!
Watch this space to see how it all comes together.
August 6th, 2009
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Check it out - we recently got our visual diary featured on this website.
April 28th, 2009
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Very cool marketing campaign for Allan Gray. 7 campusses nation wide.
Check it out in our portfolio section.
