Wines of Substance

Lots of wine posts lately but I couldn’t pass up the chance to share this piece from the Dieline. This crisp modern look is from Wines of Substance of Walla Walla. Their website is also quite a treat and completes the “elemental” look of this product. I can’t wait to get my hands on a bottle and see if what’s inside is as good as what’s outside.

Elk & Wolf Chardonnay

Make it two in a row from The Dieline. These Elk & Wolf bottles are just too beautiful to ignore. Using a brushed aluminum wine bottle Social UK was able to create something truly out of the ordinary. You can imagine how these would stand out on a wall of dark glass bottles with various color labels.

Tapio Spirits

The Dieline has a post on Tapio which is an all-natural blended spirit from the UK. The design is simple yet elegant and manages to maintain the feel of a health drink at the same time. I love how clean the design is and that it allows what’s in the bottles to take center stage instead of wrapping the whole bottle with graphics and images.

Sennheiser’s Eco-Friendly Packaging

The Dieline posted this yesterday (Looks like they found it from the Design Muse) and I had to share with all of you as well. It just goes to show that eco-friendly packaging can also be beautiful. From Design Muse: The packaging is made from cardboard and is 100% recyclable – no nasty plastic clam shell to clog up land fills. Nice work all around. More Images after the jump

Wine – Never Forget

The Dieline had a great little post this morning showing this awesome idea applied to a wine label that allowed for easy remembering without having to resort to scribbles on a napkin. As an amateur wine aficionado myself, it’s tough to always remember that one wine you got from that restaurant that was really good, ya know the one, it was dry with hints of berry and toffee and it had that name, started with a B… I think… maybe a P?

A simple innovation like the above not only looks smashing, but is also functional. If a wine maker doesn’t want to throw this on the front of a bottle, they can easily apply it too the back label (as above.) Props to Oxford Landing for the method. Form and function for the win.

Vintage Condom Packaging

Found this today on Aleksey Belyalov’s blog via Under Consideration’s Quipsologies who I guess got it from NOTCOT (how’s that for some refrences) anyway, figured I’d share. What is it? It’ vintage paper-based condom packaging from the 1930’s and 40’s. Some real gems in here. My fav is the featured above, DEVIL SKIN. I can only imagine the subtle paper envelope hiding a rubber of purely evil design. See more HERE.

Wine Bottle by Pentagram’s Justus Oehler

I am obsessed with Pentagram. They are probably my favorite brand house hands down, someday I aspire to be as great, thats the goal at least. Between the Sak’s redesign or the recent Ruby Tuesday cleanup there work never fails to impress. I saw this wine bottle design by Pentagram’s Justus Oehler on their blog and I had to share.

From the Pentagram blog:

Justus Oehler has designed a wine label for Message on the Bottle, a wine bottle and label design exhibition held as part of Design Festival Hamburg 2007, one of the highlights of Germany’s design calendar which is now in its 50th Year. In total there were 70 contributions to the exhibition from designers in 16 countries. Message on the bottle ran from the 5th to 20th of October 2007.

The CD Cover Game

This Flicker Group has been created to celebrate the internet meme CD Cover Game. Some really awesome stuff there, click on through and join the fun. Hit the jump to see the rules taken from the Flickr group page, it’ll show you  how it works.

Drinking Out Of Cups

I am a big fan of the packaging design blog The Dieline it’s chock full of design goodness delivered to my RSS reader daily. Few days ago they posted the packaging for 1Litre water. It seems you ladies like Drinking Out Of Cups and thus one of the coolest bottle + nested cup packaging was designed.

If you want to get your hands on some 1Litre it is available HERE case of 12 will run you about thirty bucks.