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August 5, 2009

stormhoek bottles

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[A print idea for #evil­plans. Click on image to enlarge etc.]

EUREKA! I had my EVIL PLANS road trip idea, but it was lac­king the social object it nee­ded to really work.
Sure, dri­ving around Texas with a video camera and an idea about “Dream Big” was all very well, but it nee­ded something to work as a totem for the Stormhoek wine.
IDEA: Hand-painted wine bott­les.
I’ve drawn on Stormhoek wine bott­les before, using pain­ting sticks. They loo­ked kinda cool. While I tra­vel around Texas, I’ll be making them to hand out to peo­ple who went to all the trou­ble to sup­port this enter­prise. See image above to get a rough idea what it might look like…
This is exci­ting. The road trip idea is sud­denly A LOT More inte­res­ting, all of a sud­den. Rock on.

[Update: Just added this blog post to EVIL PLANS.]

December 2, 2007

stormhoek sponsoring the british comedy awards

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[One of the thirty car­toons cho­sen to go on the bott­les etc.]
Though Stormhoek gene­rally doesn’t like to spon­sor large events, an inte­res­ting oppor­tu­nity came up.
On Decem­ber 5th we’ll be ser­ving Mag­nums of Stormhoek on the tables of the Bri­tish Comedy Awards, which is Bri­tish Media terms, is a pretty big deal. Lots of cele­bri­ties, TV came­ras and papa­razzi etc.
But rather than just plonk the bott­les down on the tables and let the celebs get on with it [i.e. Drink our wine, yet ignore the brand com­ple­tely– which is what nor­mally hap­pens with these kind of events], we deci­ded to behave a little dif­fe­rently than your ave­rage gala spon­sor.
We crea­ted a range of large bott­les [Mag­nums], each with a dif­fe­rent car­toon on it. Thirty car­toons in all.
Because of the event, we deci­ded we didn’t have to worry about pla­ying it safe [unlike say, with your ave­rage super­mar­ket client]. So out of my collec­tion of 6,000-odd car­toons, we pic­ked 30 car­toon that were rela­ti­vely edgy. The one above is a good exam­ple. Also, some of the car­toons from this page and this page made it into the mix. Gene­rally, we pic­ked car­toons we thought any­body who had spent a lot of time in the Soho/London/media/entertainment/cokewhore/glamorpussy world would click with. You get the idea.
As every­body will have a dif­fe­rent car­toon on each table, we’re hoping peo­ple will check out the dif­fe­rent bott­les on the other tables. Yeah, you got it. Con­ver­sa­tion star­ters. Exactly. “Social Objects”, Baby.
I hope the pho­to­graphers get some decent pictures…