Just as we often buy books for their covers, we usually choose our wines according to their bottles. We chose this 2009 Y Series Viognier because we liked the texture, embossing and overall look of its label. The illustration shows vine shoots found in a vineyard . . . → Read More: The Y Series – wine bottle label]]>

Yalumba - The Y Series (+ Steve The Cat's nose)

Just as we often buy books for their covers, we usually choose our wines according to their bottles. We chose this 2009 Y Series Viognier because we liked the texture, embossing and overall look of its label. The illustration shows vine shoots found in a vineyard and the font is a nice and classy semi-serif similar to Century Schoolbook . Only once the bottle was empty and on its way to the recycle bin did we noticed this nice little feature: a handy tag that can be torn off and put in your wallet to remember the wine’s name next time you’re at the SAQ/LCBO/wherever you buy your wine! It’s a great example of function + design… We’ll be keeping an eye out to see if it’s used by other wineries to compare how they’ve designed the little tag to keep it in line with the rest of the label as it’s the first time that we, personally, have seen it. If you’ve seen it done before, please leave a comment below to let us know what wine it was and we’ll try get a bottle to check its design – even if it means having to drink it after!

Viognier 2009

]]> http://yellowcardesign.com/blog/2010/08/23/the-y-series-wine-bottle-label/feed/ 0 http://yellowcardesign.com/blog/2009/12/31/amsterdam-beer-nice-packaging-and-taste/ http://yellowcardesign.com/blog/2009/12/31/amsterdam-beer-nice-packaging-and-taste/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:38:14 +0000 ycd http://yellowcardesign.com/blog/?p=680 Amsterdam Beer

Amsterdam is a locally brewed beer. It is conveniently located just around the corner from us so it’s a great alternative to the Oh-So-Stinky-And-Far-Away Beer Store. There’s definitely something special about buying beer directly at the brewery: not only are we doing something good by buying a local product, but the beer even seems . . . → Read More: Amsterdam Beer – Nice packaging (and taste!)]]>

Amsterdam Beer

Amsterdam is a locally brewed beer. It is conveniently located just around the corner from us so it’s a great alternative to the Oh-So-Stinky-And-Far-Away Beer Store. There’s definitely something special about buying beer directly at the brewery: not only are we doing something good by buying a local product, but the beer even seems fresher and tastier. The brewery shop isn’t just a plain refrigerator. It’s a cool warehouse where we can see the beer-making process and the staff, if often not overly friendly, is at least authentic and far from the corporate ‘fakeness’ that we get in other places.

Anyways, the purpose of this post is to show you that Amsterdam recently changed its packaging. It used to be a paper label glued to the bottle, but now they’ve changed it so the label is directly printed on the bottle. It gives it a nice, clean look and makes it easier for the brewery to reuse the bottle in an eco-friendly manner. We also like the box in which the 25 bottles came: it’s minimalist, a bit rough-looking and very different from the overly decorated and colourful box that other beers come in… We give it two thumbs up, and on that note, we’re off to drink a beer – it’s New Year’s Eve after all!

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Amsterdam – Bière au bel emballage (et bon goût!)

Amsterdam est une bière brassée ici, à Toronto. La brasserie est située juste au coin de notre rue, donc c’est pratique et nous permet d’éviter la puanteur du Beer Store. Il y a définitivement des avantages à acheter de la bière directement à la brasserie: non seulement encourageons-nous une entreprise locale, mais la bière semble être plus “fraîche” et semble également avoir meilleur goût. Le magasin de la brasserie n’est pas qu’un simple réfrigérateur… C’est plutôt un genre d’entrepôt qui permet de voir comment la bière est faite et les employés, même s’ils ne sont pas toujours extrêmement sympatiques, sont authentiques.

Récemment, Amsterdam a changé l’emballage de ses bouteilles de bière. Au lieu d’avoir une étiquette en papier collée sur la bouteille, l’étiquette est désormais directement imprimée sur celle-ci. En plus d’être écologique, ça modernise l’image de la marque. On aime beaucoup la simplicité de la boîte dans laquelle venaient les 25 bières…Ça fait changement des autres caisses de bières aux couleurs et designs un peu trop dynamiques! Parlant de bières…C’est l’heure d’aller en prendre une. Après-tout, c’est la veille du Nouvel An!