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Wine Label Studies.

A self-initiated wine-label series, 'Matisse in a bottle': testing how far a label can lean on painting and typography before the shelf stops reading it.

Year
2019
Tools
Packaging Design, Typography, Adobe Creative Suite
A tall wine label study with a painterly illustration and typographic composition.

This self-initiated series asked one question: how painterly can a wine label be — Matisse in a bottle, as the original notes put it — before the practical duties of the genre (varietal, vintage, legibility at arm's length across a store aisle) stop working?

The studies push illustration and typography to carry the entire brand, with the label's mandatory information composed as part of the artwork rather than appended to it. Packaging is typography with physics: curvature, glass, condensation, and shelf light all edit your type for you.

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