December 14, 2005
stormhoek design update
[Dave Wheeler is right– Stormhoek is a “WIRED” brand. That’s his doodle above etc.]
Just an update on the new Stormhoek Design.
Well, we’ve taken on board what you guys came up with [a lot of it was excellent], and we’ve given the info to our head designer. Once the new design is in Beta we’ll show it to you, and announce the
Print cartoons on the corks. That way you have to buy a bottle and open it to read them.
And I could make a cool pinboard out of them.
Hmmm…object of desire eh? Like Lalique perfume?
The Hacker’s Wine
I don’t check Stormhoek’s website that often (note to self: add feed to new feed reader), but I was wonderfully surprised when I read on gapingvoid about a few new “hacks” being implemented at Stormhoek.
Here’s the new intro on the site:
‘new zeala…
Siemens has come up with a new 80 dpi digital display that
I bought two bottles in Sainsbury’s. So I guess it is starting to work! New design or not!
Bottling the wine in South Africa then schlepping it to Europe or the USA is an expensive business. Far more economical would be just shipping it up in bulk containers, and bottling it nearer where it’s sold
Didn’t that sort of work for Coca-Cola. Micro-bottling.