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City of Oaks - Exhibition

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.


The Sunday Times - Cape of good food

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.

Alheit Vineyards - logo and website

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/

Beau Constantia featured on The Dieline

Beau Constantia featured nicely on The Dieline:
http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2011/10/28/beau-constantia.html

De Kleine Wijn Koöp - website

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…

Check the website: http://www.dekleinewijnkoop.co.za/



Eric Todd - website

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.”

Debutant’s debut on The Dieline

De Kleine Wijn Koöp’s first wine made its way onto The Dieline:
http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2011/10/5/debutant.html

Gilga on the Dieline

Gilga Wine: http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2011/9/1/gilga-wine.html

Wine Service Award - logo and website

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/

Sequillo on the Dieline

Let’s go: http://wine.thedieline.com/blog/2011/7/1/sequillo-eben-sadie.html

Sequillo labels and website launch

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/

House and Leisure - Label Love

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.

Yonder Hill website

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.”

Studio Spotlight on The Dieline

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 →

Sixpence 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

Boer & Brit online store

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.

Websites built Withtank

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/

AmaZink on the VISI website

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

Zinkplaat on The Dieline

We did not even know about this post!
http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2011/3/23/zinkplaat-scratch-off-cd.html

Our first French label

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…

Trans-Karoo on the Dieline

The Dieline featured Trans-Karoo! Very happy indeed…

Helderberg Wijnmakerij on Design Indaba site

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

Helderberg Wijnmakerij on the Dieline

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.

Blog’s Your Uncle!

Lots of blogs have picked up the hype so we gathered them all so you can check it out, blog’s your uncle:

  1. http://lovelypackage.com/bobs-your-uncle/
  2. http://blog.lightninglabels.com/2010/wine-labels/bobs-your-uncle/
  3. http://www.seriousaboutwine.co.za/?p=4394
  4. http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2010/8/30/bobs-your-uncle.html
  5. http://www.spill.co.za/niblets/wine-in-a-beer-bottle-the-boer-and-brit-team-innovate/2755/ (Great story)
  6. http://10and5.com/2010/08/bobs-your-uncle/#more-12962
  7. http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/bobs-your-uncle-wine/
  8. http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bobs-your-uncle
  9. http://www.lostateminor.com/2010/09/02/wine-in-a-beer-bottle/
  10. http://www.theurbangrocer.com/2010/09/02/with-bobs-your-uncle-bobs-your-uncle/
  11. http://michaelolivier.co.za/2010/09/11/bob’s-your-uncle/
  12. http://imod.co.za/2010/09/28/bobs-your-uncle/
  13. http://www.packagingoftheworld.com/2010/10/bobs-your-uncle.html
  14. http://winetimes.co.za/2010/09/22/beer-bottled-wine-bobs-your-uncle/
  15. http://www.designindaba.com/news-snippet/bobs-your-uncle

Bob’s on the Dieline

The Dieline featured BOB!
http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2010/8/30/bobs-your-uncle.html

Bob’s on Lovely Package

Bob got featured on the Lovely Package site:
http://lovelypackage.com/bobs-your-uncle/

Cool tweaks on our site

We did some changes to the site, all the images are bigger and crisper and ideal for a big screen, enjoy!

Boer & Brit on 10 and 5

Click here to read more…

The Good Value Guru

New book coming out soon that we created with Neil Pendock.

Check the website for a preview…

New Boer & Brit labels

2 new labels will be showing up sum-time in March.

Keep watching their website for news and updates.

Fabiani shirts now in store

There are 3 forest designs to choose from, pricing at R699 each.

Check them out.

Zinkplaat CD’s have arrived…

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.

Boer & Brit - Wine label

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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.

Deli design

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Nearly done with a nice corporate ID and interesting business card for a new deli opening in Stellenbosch.

Zinkplaat - Mooi Besoedling

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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.

Book By Its Cover

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Check it out - we recently got our visual diary featured on this website.

Allan Gray Orbis Foundation

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Very cool marketing campaign for Allan Gray. 7 campusses nation wide.

Check it out in our portfolio section.