2013 was the third year we’ve collaborated with the amazing folks over at the Virginia Film Festival. Our goal was to create a campaign that spoke to the scope of the Festival and it’s impact on the city of Charlottesville while feeling connected to what makes Charlottesville such a great place to be.

We presented 8 or so concepts to the organizers and staff and hands down the concept that won –

Last year we had a blast designing Stinson Vineyard’s Imperialis Port screenprinted bottle. Rachel, the winemaker at Stinson, knows what she likes and this article proves she knows her wine & design. Congrats Rachel, a well-deserved acknowledgement from the bible of the South.

You can check it out in this issue, online or stop in to see it in person:

We had a blast on December 10 at Champion Brewing alongside Hunter- the owner and head brewer at Champion and Chris, the owner of Blue Ridge Pizza, enjoying some awesome beer and pizza and discussing why it was so important to launch their small businesses (neither are small any longer!) with strong branding [Thank you to The Central VA AMA for putting this on!]. When coming into a marketplace with existing breweries and food trucks,

Blue Mountain Barrel House Bottles Featured on The Dieline: We are so excited to be featured on this industry-leading package design site! Check out more of our packaging design/label design here.

Watermark was honored to be featured in the below article in 2012.

To view more recent work, Click here.

View Article here: http://www.c-ville.com/judging_a_wine_by_its_label/

Judging a wine by its label
Megan J. Headley

Looks are everything. Wait, what? No matter what your mom tells you, looks do matter—especially in a crowded marketplace. When it comes to wine, unless we’ve had a bottle before,