Need versatile artist for CC inspired wine labels

[Solenoidclock]

I'm making some wine and mead, 15 and 5 gallons at the moment, but I plan to continue making mead until the next grape harvest.

As anyone who brews things in the states knows, it is illegal to sell alcoholic beverages without a license, meaning that a good brewer is either an amazing drunk or a great gift giver. I'm a little of both, but mostly a cunning neither. I have a deal with a local upper-crusty restaurant that allows me to showcase my best product to diners while getting a pitifully small and grey-area legal blind pig sponsorship to cover my cost. The wines and meads I make are offered free with the meals, as is every wine, as I think the restaurant doesn't want to buy a license either.

So anyway, I have full control of what I put on the labels so long as they're informative as to what is behind them. What a great opportunity to spam the real world?

I'll be needing an artist that can pull off making the label look authentic and uncluttered, yet intricate. It'd be a big plus if I could get someone who could roll information about the flavors, smells, and other properties of specific wines and meads around in their head to help inspire the design. To get a connoisseur is not what I ask, an artistic foodie is all I need.

Edit: Oh, and I also have a deal with a local fraternity to brew a non-alcoholic energy drink. I haven't all of the ingredients yet, but I'll eventually need labels for that too.

[HeinekenClock]

By rolling information about the flavors, smells and other properties you mean bullshit like "This sweet and aromatic mead is one of Solenoid's finest products, distilled from grade-A honey purchased from a select group of beekeepers" or am I mistaking. Because if I sit down to try I can make one that doesn't sound too pretentious.

[LeekClock]

That's very exciting. I'd love to give it a shot but I'm away from home for a few weeks -- no tablet, no photoshop. Good luck with your project though it sounds like fun.

[Solenoidclock]

By rolling information about the flavors, smells and other properties you mean bullshit like "This sweet and aromatic mead is one of Solenoid's finest products, distilled from grade-A honey purchased from a select group of beekeepers" or am I mistaking. Because if I sit down to try I can make one that doesn't sound too pretentious.

Hahaha no, I'm not looking to sound pretentious. I just want to communicate information about ingredients, process, clarity, intensity, color, sugar and acid balances and content, bouquet, alcohol content, and all manner of smells to inform you of what is to be bottled.

The reason I want you to roll this around in your head is because I want you to get an idea of the personality of the mead or wine. e.g. I wouldn't want a mellow and flowery mead's bottle to look as if it had a raging bull inside it, nor would I want a hefty 35 proof braggot's design to feature rolling meadows and swirly calligraphy.


Leek: Sorry to hear you can't help, but this is only the first round. Have a nice trip!

[Loki Clock]

Do you want it to be graphical or more respectable and simplistic? Yellow Tail or Wren Oaks? Either way, I'd like to try my hand at it.

EDIT: I see that's dependent upon the character!

[Solenoidclock]

Awesome, I'll be chatting with you both to figure out some designs. I have a special one I'm giving a Victorian theme, so if anyone wants to volunteer for that be my guest.

[Topcatyo]

I'd love to help too, but without my computer I can't
If I get it fixed and you still need a design, I'd love to help.

[TequilaClock]

What a sponsorship it would be.

[Solenoidclock]

Anyone who wants to do something needs to catch me online or drop a PM. I want to keep things kind of hush on the individual designs until I actually have them glued on the bottle.

[AbsintheClock]

Send me some and I'll do it. For the record I'm of drinking age.

[HeinekenClock]

Send me some and I'll do it. For the record I'm of drinking age.

So am I, and I'm seventeen. My country rocks

[DigitalLemonClock]

So am I, and I'm seventeen. My country rocks

SHUT UP

[AbsintheClock]

So am I, and I'm seventeen. My country rocks

Yeah but everybody still hates you.

[AstronautClock]

I'm 18 and I also live in holland. I can buy weed legal woop die doo

[AbsintheClock]

You also grew pubes. Heineken lost those in a wheelchair accident.

[HeinekenClock]

You also grew pubes. Heineken lost those in a wheelchair accident.

They got caught in the wheels of a wheelchair, damn fucking cripples.