We are excited to announce that the Ingleside Chesapeake series has been featured on the Dieline! The Dieline is the leading international package design site, sharing the most cutting-edge design in our field.

View the Ingleside feature here.

“Faced forward on-shelf, you are presented with a clean, minimal design, only hinting at the experience you will receive with a turn of the bottle…”

Happy New Year! As we embark on 2018, it’s always good to take stock of what you have accomplished in the year prior. Here are our top 7 moments of 2017.

1. The Dieline featured both Jake Busching Wines & Wheelhouse Canned Cocktails : ANY time you get on the Dieline – the leading international blog for packaging design and branding – is a time to celebrate, but twice in 2 months was an honor.

We are excited to announce that Watermark is featured in the 2017 PRINT Regional Design Annual. Judged by the most esteemed graphic design professionals, from Jessica Hische to Ellen Lupton and Aaron Draplin, we could not be more proud to have been selected to be featured amongst such amazing work by amazing designers across the US.

Code Red was a passion project that we took on pro-bono, because we saw it as a worthwhile cause working to solve a gaping need.

With 7 AVAs and growing, Virginia wine continues to expand and garner national- and international -attention for it’s quality and unique terroir, but who designs all those wine labels? Watermark has been designing Virginia wine labels and winery/vineyard brands since 2008. Over the last ten years, we have had the honor of helping create a large number of the Virginia winery brands you see today. Each vineyard or winery has it’s own story, it’s own terroir,

At the recent Wines and Vines Packaging conference in Yountville, CA we sat in on a Nielsen presentation titled “A Common-Sense Guide to Winning with Bottle Design”. While there were many excellent topics discussed, we would like to focus on the portion that listed the ‘6 Things Good Design can do for Wine’ and break down exactly how design can influence your sales.

For those of you who do not know, Nielsen meticulously researches and measures consumer habits to understand what they are watching and buying.