One of the strange things or timely things about this years' efforts was that I was actually trying to be ahead of the game and had already done most of the artwork on two labels, one for the red wine and the other for the white wine to be. Then Linda passed on.
Talking with my brother later on it was decided to dedicate the white wine label to Linda.
So with great respect and love this is the label for her.
I hope she can rest now in peace.
And now WhutsmattaU.
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| Whutsamatta U varsity letters |
If you have read any of the other blog entries for the Campbell Brothers Winery you will know that we always make up a stupid story about the bumbling brothers and their failed schemes. We make copies of the story and they accompany the wine that we give away to friends and family as Christmas gifts. Some of the friends have even remained friends afterward.
For this year Ralph wanted to do something with a tag line from an old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon. This was Whutsamatta U (I think it was spelled slightly differently for the cartoon). It became the inspiration for another tale on how the Campbell brothers screw up.
We talked over some ideas and then I put together a mock university newsletter with the story, Ralph liked it, we kept it. It went to press.
The front page of the newsletter looked like this:
The back looked like this:
For the actual wine labels I did an image search on 'bottles' and found online almost identical catalog images for both a red and a white wine. I think they were wine bottle holders or something similar. Although the images were 'borrowed' from the internet for our use it was not for any malicious purpose, everything was just for fun. There certainly was no profit for us in any of this.
So this is how the red label turned out.
Red Menace
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| Red Menace, the wine. |
As I mentioned I had already made up a white wine label similar to the red. I'll post it here but this edition of the label for this year was not given out. Oh well. I really liked the fact that it was almost identical to the red, but white. In other words, the same but different. Much like the Campbell brothers themselves.
Here is what I mean.
Yellow Peril
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| Yellow Peril, the wine |
I liked the idea of using past slogans from former political propaganda with an updated view or context.
So that's the lot, I hope that you like.
