Winefulness
A new type of wine experience
the why and how
Gunnar knows wine. Better than most. He wanted to build something around it, so he created Winefulness. But he needed everything else around the wine: a brand, a website, a newsletter, a deck template and staionary.
Wine people tend to take themselves seriously. Gunnar takes the wine seriously. So no curly serifs, no wine red, and a story behind every brand element. Like every bottle he pours.
the what
The Brand
A pattern drawn from the topography of some of the most famous vineyards and districts, so wine country shows up on the menu, the business cards, the newsletter and the front door. A wordmark with a bottle hidden in the negative space of the W. Sora in the headlines, Garamond in the body copy, a classic from the wine labels. A palette of soil, champagne and white wine instead of the over-used wine red. All of it in a brand manual, so Gunnar can run it himself.
The website
Not a shop with 500 wines. Not a one-pager either. Courses, tastings, dates, filters, memberships, a blog and a newsletter, with sign-ups that land straight with Gunnar. The brand gets room to breathe between the functional parts. Smart automation filters out courses that are either full or where the date has passed. And the backend is simple enough that he publishes a new tasting or a wine tip himself.
Who did what
I did this one at Tale as Creative Director, but stayed hands-on the whole way, from the first sketches to the final files. Designer Emelie Holmblad was right there with me, and between the two of us we built all of it.
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