HELSINQI CREATIVE

New Dolcetto label for Carlton Cellars

Friday, 20 August 2010

We're molto felice that Carlton Cellars will be releasing their new Oregon Dolcetto with our label design this Sunday at Italy in the Valley.

The Dolcetto will be a one-time wine for Carlton Cellars, since they sourced the fruit from their friend Dick Erath, who subsequently grafted the vines to Pinot. It's a very nice wine with a big Italian heart but made in Carlton Cellars' softer, Willamette Valley style.

The photo is one that Anna & Leo shot on a location scout for Carlton Cellars in 2008. We liked the name Miles Crossing, and went out for a look at this picturesque area across Youngs Bay from Astoria, at Oregon's northwest corner. We were delighted to find this old, abandoned cannery, its delicious redness standing out so strikingly from the lush greens and dulcet blues.

Last night we supped with Dave & Robin of Carlton Cellars — at the excellent Lincoln, by the way — and they let us know they're thinking (only thinking!) of planting some of their own Russell-Grooters Vineyard to Dolcetto. We hope so, not just because we like the juice, but because that would give our little cannery pic a new lease on life.

Fear No Music – wine, music, dessert

Thursday, 12 August 2010

Sunday, August 22 at 3:00 pm

Fear No Music is hosting:

A delightful afternoon of wine, music, and dessert at the home of Ted and Molly Raphael. Treat yourself to a tour of the Raphael’s collection of Native American and First Nation art, enjoy a glass of wine and program of song from acclaimed tenor Stephen Marc Beaudoin, with Fear No Music’s Jeff Payne at the piano, and follow it up with sumptuous desserts! And, don’t miss the opportunity to bid on a week’s stay at a townhouse in SunRiver, among other fabulous items!

An amazing package at only $45!

See all the details on their website or calling 503-335-3386.

See you there!

Fear No Music dreaming it is a butterfly

Sunday, 20 June 2010

Fear No Music is playing their final concert of the season tonight, featuring highlights of past performances, including recent works by Oregon composers Bonnie Miksch and Mark Vigil, and personal favorites from the likes of Reza Vali, Iannis Xenakis, and Malcolm Forsyth.

Our Once Upon a Time… program cover refers to the Taoist master Chuang Tzu's contemplation as to whether he was "a man dreaming I am a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I am a man" — which inspired Bonnie Miksch's "Man Dreaming Butterfly Dreaming Man", featured in the concert.

> See complete concert information on Fear No Music's site.

Client: Fear No Music
Project: print program
Team:

• Leo Daedalus: cover design, creative director
• Isabel Cattadoris: interior design & layout
• David Abel: editing

> See the complete program as a PDF here.

Helsinqi Hosts

Friday, 11 June 2010

Thanks to all who came to our HELSINQI Hosts networking soirée last night! We put on a special wine tasting at the Wine & Spirit Archive (WSA) for clients and associates, with a selection of "enlightened wines" put together by the WSA's Mimi Martin, and the great Pinots of Carlton Cellars.

Mimi poured three organic/biodynamic wines: Alliance, a multivarietal white by Alsatian vintner Marc Tempé; Roseena, a rosé by Oregon winery Maysara; and Il Frappato, produced entirely from Frappato grapes from Eastern Sicily by Valle dell'Acate.

Carlton Cellars' Dave Grooters & Robin Russell poured their premium Roads End and Cape Lookout Pinots, showcasing their great winemaking skills (and, incidentally, HELSINQI's great label designs, if we do say so ourselves).

The WSA also gave everyone a free ticket to any of their Friday night tastings, and a drawing prize of two tickets to one of their Passport Series of international wine classes. Mimi also brought along Beverage Marketing Consultant Ted Farthing, whom it was a pleasure to get to know.

Some of our good friends and collaborators in the YWCA of Greater Portland were there: Marketing Director Kelly Blunt (who brought our man Scott Hall of Graphic Arts Center); YWCA Board President Anne Denecke of Denecke Law (who brought along Carolyn Reynolds of Canteen Vending); YWCA Board Member Peggy Kern of MPK Marketing; and Executive Director Eric Brown, who won a photo shoot with Kathryn Elsesser in our drawing.

Kathryn Elsesser is our photographer friend who did all the photography for our Lives Changed campaign for the YWCA, as well as the pix in this very post. She also has done great event photography for Carlton Cellars. Also from the Carlton Cellars camp were Chef Paul & Kathy Parenteau, who do the amazing victuals for the Carlton Cellars vineyard lunch event series that we helped conceive and produce beginning last year.

Green CPA Brian Setzler of Trilibrium, a B Corporation, won Carlton Cellars' contribution to the drawing: a magnum of Roads End 2007. The last time we'd seen Brian was at a Trilibrium networking event where they served what must have been a jeroboam of bubbly. So now we're always going to associate Brian with oversize bottles of wine! We know what to get him for April 16th next year.

FearNoMusic's Inés Voglar and Joël Belgique made an appearance (sans instruments) and contributed a pair of concert tickets to the drawing. Our clients Laughlin-Cartrell, Inc. couldn't be there but they contributed a set of his'n'hers high-style garden/casual gloves from the new Fields & Lane line we're working on with them.

Thanks to everyone (named herein and otherwise) for helping make it a tasty and networky evening!

Alberta Coop site goes live

Wednesday, 05 May 2010

We’re very pleased to have worked with our dear local co-op, the Alberta Cooperative Grocery — one of the reasons we moved to our neighborhood — to design their shiny new website.

Thanks Anni & Matthaus for working with us, and for the shout out on your News page!

> Visit www.albertagrocery.coop

Client: Alberta Cooperative Grocery
Project: website

Team:

• Leo Daedalus: design, architecture, strategy
• Anna Daedalus: strategy, architecture
• Matthaus Litteken: web development, architecture
• Samuel Miller: XHTML/CSS