Is your wine label helping or hurting your brand?
I was at a wine conference earlier this year and a presenter mentioned to the whole conference that this region had very high-quality wine, but the labels needed improvement. When the second presenter mentioned it you could hear the rumblings that th
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Wine in a can: Attracting Millennials while keeping your brand classy
Canned wine is a hot trend in the wine industry, and it shouldn’t be ignored.
“Sales of cans increased 69 percent in 2018, with volume up 47 percent over the previous year, according to Beverage Media, citing Nielsen statistics.”
Nearly twenty years ago, Oskar Blues did something bold: They pu
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Why Millennials love wine packaging that is not in a bottle
If you follow me on Twitter, than you know I have been in a bit of Millennial tweeting frenzy this month. Why? Millennials are the next big wine consumer and more and more wine brands are taking steps to target this demographic. The better you understand your consumer, the easier it is to create &am
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Millennial Wine Consumers: Profiles and Responses towards Alternative Wine Packaging
Texas Wine Marketing Institute presented their research study at the #TWGGA17 conference. As a packaging designer, I love reading this type of research and love passing it along to winery owners.
This past weekend I was a speaker on Content Marketing at the Annual Texas Wine and Grape Growers Ass
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How a small winery used a contest to pick their new wine label
We know every customer has an opinion, here is how one winery involved their customers.
Earlier this year we worked with Susina Plantation Winery on their brand strategy, logo design and wine label design. Susina Plantation Winery is a micro winery in Thomasville, Georgia, near Tallahassee,
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KC Wineworks: branding for Kansas City, Missouri winery
What happens when Baby Boomers and Millennials come together to create a wine brand? KC Wineworks just opened in the Crossroads Arts district of Kansas City, Missouri, and a few brand elements from our recent collaboration are highlighted below.
If you were at the Annual Texas Wine & Grape Growe
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Muddy Arch: Wine logo, Label & Package Design
Muddy Arch has officially launched! Bauerhaus Design a full service branding, packaging and web development agency located in the Midwest, created the packaging for Leonard Wine Company. This wine company is made up of Tom Leonard, who is located in St. Louis, and his son, Chris Leonard, a winemake
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4 strategic tips for your “back” wine label design
We talk about the front wine label design all the time, but the back is often a hugely overlooked piece of marketing material. In the presentation I have given to several different wine associations, “How wine label design can increase your retail sales,” I talk about how important the back is
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Texas Winery Logo & wine label design: Bingham Family Vineyards
Earlier this year, we worked with Bingham Family Vineyards, an adventure of music, children, grapes, and organic crops on the High Plains of Texas. They are opening their doors on April 24, 2015 in Grapevine, Texas.
A little more about their family:
“Cliff Bingham, a fourth generation farmer in Te
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5 tips to increase perceived value of your wine label
When I give presentations on wine label design and wine branding, I often show the above photo and ask “which wine costs more?” In other words, “which wine is of higher quality?” It’s impossible to know the quality or taste of the wine by staring at the photo, but at EVERY
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