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NewTre Acini – Identity and wine labels

Tre Acini – Identity and wine labels

Tre Acini is the synthesis of the bond between land, vine and people. For more than twenty years, Dino and Elia have farmed organically as a life choice, respecting a natural balance that has always guided them. Family is the heart of everything, where every harvest becomes a moment of togetherness and every bottle holds a piece of their story. The label design aims to reflect this simplicity.

This Wine Cooler Scans the Label and Sets Its Own Temperature for You

This Wine Cooler Scans the Label and Sets Its Own Temperature for You

Wine culture has never been more accessible, with good bottles showing up at rooftop dinners, backyard gatherings, and weekend trips just as often as they do at restaurant tables. What hasn’t quite kept up, though, is how we actually serve them once we’re there. Temperature is the detail that most people overlook, and it’s arguably one of the most important variables in how a wine actually tastes. That’s the gap that Porta is designed to fill. It’s a smart, portable wine cooler that keeps a bottle at the right serving temperature without ice, without a power outlet, and without any of the fuss that usually comes with trying to manage these things outside of a dedicated wine space. It’s compact, rechargeable, and built for the kind of drinking occasions that happen well beyond the kitchen. Designer: Metaproi Click Here to Buy Now: $249 $599 (58% off). Hurry, only 363/500 off. Raised over $57,000. A bottle can come from a great producer, be stored perfectly, and still taste flat if it’s poured too warm or too cold. Serve a red too warm, and the alcohol starts to overwhelm everything else. Too cold, and the aromas shut down. There’s a narrow window where the flavors actually show up the way they were intended, and that window closes faster than most people realize. Cellars and wine fridges solve the storage part just fine. But once the bottle comes out and ends up on the dinner table, or worse, goes into an ice bucket, the situation changes pretty quickly. An ice bucket drops the temperature too far and strips the wine of the very character you chose it for. Porta addresses that moment specifically, which is where it actually matters. The companion app is where Porta’s smarter side comes in. Pair it with your phone, point the camera at the label, and the app identifies the grape variety and sets the chiller to an appropriate temperature automatically. You can also adjust manually, log wines, add tasting notes, and build a personal wine list, making it quite useful for something that just sits quietly on your table. There’s also a decanting timer built into the workflow, a small detail that makes a real difference. Once you open the bottle and let it breathe, Porta tracks the time and lets you know when it’s ready to pour. It removes the guesswork from a process that casual drinkers tend to skip entirely, adding a bit of structure to the ritual without making it feel like homework. What makes Porta genuinely interesting as a design object, though, is how cordless it actually is. It runs on an internal 10,000 mAh battery good for up to eight hours of sustained cooling, and charges via USB in about three and a half hours. That makes it as useful on a terrace or a picnic blanket as it is at a formal dinner table. The cooling itself is handled by a thermoelectric system that operates without any mechanical movement, which keeps things quiet and vibration-free. The interior circulates chilled air around the bottle while a cork-filled insulating frame holds the temperature steady, even when the ambient conditions outside change. It can bring wine down to 46°F and sustain those conditions throughout a meal without needing you to fuss over it. The design itself is worth noting separately. Porta comes in Champagne Gold and Matte Black, with a faceted, geometric silhouette that tends to draw attention at the table. That’s intentional. The front window keeps the label visible while the bottle chills, turning it into part of the setting rather than something to be tucked away. It’s the kind of object that actually belongs where the drinking happens. Click Here to Buy Now: $249 $599 (58% off). Hurry, only 363/500 off. Raised over $57,000.The post This Wine Cooler Scans the Label and Sets Its Own Temperature for You first appeared on Yanko Design.

Anniversary Packaging for Coffee Brand | Label Design

Anniversary Packaging for Coffee Brand | Label Design

A real-life packaging project for 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸, a specialty coffee brand celebrating 𝟭𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸: to design four labels for four coffee origins within a brand identity built on gradients and cinematic storytelling. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: I used a line graph as a narrative device — each label maps the brand's journey through its highs, lows, and turning points, with its own color palette and gradient. Place all four jars together and the graphs connect into a single continuous timeline. Fifteen years of history, told across four jars of coffee.

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Discarded Packaging and Labels Find New Life in Kelly Kozma’s Vibrant Patchworks

Discarded Packaging and Labels Find New Life in Kelly Kozma’s Vibrant Patchworks

From dozens of Chiquita banana labels to toothpaste packaging to color-coded quality control stickers, Kelly Kozma finds beauty in everyday ephemera. “Piece by piece, she saves any colorful or textured box that she encounters, even though most are expected to be discarded after their original use,” says Paradigm Gallery + Studio, which opens the artist’s solo exhibition Watch Me Backflip this weekend. Kozma takes an archival and interdisciplinary approach to working with numerous found materials, combining a variety of media into two-dimensional wall works, expansive textile-inspired assemblages, and voluminous suspended installations. “Watch Me Backflip embraces ideas of reusing material, interconnectedness, and the significance of the smallest interaction on a much larger environment,” says an exhibition statement. Installation view of ‘Watch Me Backflip’ at Paradigm Gallery + Studio “Iguana & Myrrh” and “Magma & Reef” mark the largest compositions Kozma has created. The former spans 22 feet in circumference and comprises more than 30,000 hand-stitched circles cut from a wide variety of greeting cards, found packaging, and other colorful materials. Committed to a minimal-waste practice, the artist incorporates scraps and loose threads into a number of accompanying works in Watch Me Backflip. “As she stitches these lovingly collected pieces, Kozma creates connections between the people in her life and the objects she interacts with, inspiring mindfulness against overconsumption and emotional apathy,” the gallery says. Watch Me Backflip opens today and continues through June 1 in Philadelphia. See more on the artist’s Instagram. “I See Your Beauty” (2025), process control patches and acrylic on panel Installation view of ‘Watch Me Backflip’ at Paradigm Gallery + Studio Detail of “Iguana & Myrrh” Installation view of ‘Watch Me Backflip’ at Paradigm Gallery + Studio “Peels So Good” (2025), banana stickers and acrylic on panel Detail of “Iguana & Myrrh” The artist working on the installation of “Magma & Reef” Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Discarded Packaging and Labels Find New Life in Kelly Kozma’s Vibrant Patchworks appeared first on Colossal.

NewChurch & State | Wine Label Lettering

Church & State | Wine Label Lettering

A series of custom calligraphic lettering styles created in collaboration with Vancouver-based Brandever for Canadian winery Church & State Wines. Each lettering style reflects the unique personality of a wine varietal, combining traditional craftsmanship with digital refinement to create a distinctive yet cohesive packaging collection.

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THE LABEL LAB, FEDRIGONI - Packaging Experience

THE LABEL LAB, FEDRIGONI - Packaging Experience

THE LABEL LAB opens its doors to showcase a necessary collision between raw material purity and technical sophistication. Vantablack Studio takes its place as one of the seven premier Argentine design houses summoned to hack the visual codes of wine and spirits. In a symbiotic alliance with @labelsolutions @manterbyfedrigoni @fs.print we explore the exact tension where paper stops being a medium and starts being a language. We’ve stripped away the concessions of the traditional brief, diving into a radical execution where creative freedom and printing precision converge into a singular, unique piece. What we project in this laboratory isn’t seeking today’s consensus; it’s setting the pulse for what’s next.

What that new ‘U.S. Farmed’ label means on your favorite beer

What that new ‘U.S. Farmed’ label means on your favorite beer

Beer cans from Anheuser-Busch will soon feature a new label that says “U.S. Farmed.” The American Farmland Trust, a nonprofit that advocates for farmers and farming, launched the label. Its hopes are that it will someday become the equivalent of a “Made in USA” label, but for packaged food products. Cans of Busch Light, Budweiser, Bud Light, and Michelob Ultra will be the first products to use the label beginning next month. To get the label, at least 95% of the weight of food products must be farmed in the U.S., excluding water, packaging, and labeling, and the claims must be verified by American Farmland Trust’s certification board. [Photo: Anheuser-Busch] “We source nearly all the ingredients in our iconic American beers from hard-working U.S. farmers—many of whom we have worked with for generations,” Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth said in a statement. “The U.S. Farmed certification takes our commitment to the next level, and we are proud to lead the industry in rallying behind American farmers to ensure the future of U.S. agriculture, which is crucial to our country’s economy.” Labeling products as made in the U.S. can boost sales, and products sometimes include the labeling fraudulently. The Federal Trade Commission has described bogus country-of-origin labeling as “rampant.” Researchers at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business found that after four products were forced to drop “Made in USA” labels, weekly sales for three of the four fell. In a follow-up experiment that involved selling screen protectors for phones and watches on eBay, they found that those carrying the “Made in USA” label sold for 7 cents more. American Farmland Trust says it will use the revenue generated through its “U.S. Farmed” certification program to “support American farmers navigating succession planning and provide American farmers with farmland protection tools for their operations.” The group says that over the next 15 years more than 30% of U.S. agricultural land could be “in transition” as farmers prepare to retire.

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What makes product label design both legally compliant and visually compelling?

Label design operates under constraints that few other design disciplines face: mandatory regulatory fields, tiny physical printing surfaces, and the requirement to compete for attention on crowded retail shelves while being applied to curved or irregular 3D surfaces. The best label designers treat the constraints as the creative brief — designing within tight restrictions produces more inventive outcomes than designing freely and retrofitting requirements afterward.

What are the key technical constraints in product label design?

Minimum text size on labels varies by product category and market: food labeling in the EU requires a minimum x-height of 1.2mm for standard labels. Ingredients lists, allergen information, nutritional data, and country of origin have mandatory placement requirements that must be established before visual design begins. Spot colors (Pantone matching) are strongly preferable to CMYK for label printing — CMYK conversion of brand colors produces significant color drift, particularly in greens, purples, and oranges. Bleed requirements, safe zones, and barcode placement with mandatory quiet zones should all be defined in the design template before artwork begins.

How do you design a label system that works across a product family?

Family label design requires identifying what varies (flavor, variety, size, strength) and what stays constant (brand elements, layout architecture, typography hierarchy). The variable element typically drives the most visible differentiation — color is the most common family differentiator, but pattern, photography, or illustration variation also work well for premium positioning. Design the most complex SKU first, then validate that the system simplifies cleanly to the simplest variant.

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