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 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.

Back to Hearing the Future

Sunday, 02 May 2010

Fear No Music‘s annual Young Composers Project concert is today, showcasing the compositions of some very young composers indeed. Our Hearing the Future program cover design hearkens to the forward-looking days of Russian Constructivism, when artists like Vladimir Malevich and El Lissitsky were inventing a dynamic new visual language.

> See complete concert information on the Fear No Music 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.

YWCA Leadership Luncheon

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

The YWCA of Greater Portland hosted its 18th Annual Leadership Luncheon fundraising event today at the Oregon Convention Center. It was a record turnout with 1300 participants.

Helsinqi participated as a Presenting Sponsor. Our Lives Changed campaign was in evidence, with nice big posters we produced, created from client interviews conducted by Anna Daedalus, photographs by our friend Kathryn Elsesser, and design by Leo Daedalus.

Our print programs spread the YWCA message, with design by Laurie Hotovy and creative direction by Anna and Leo. And our interactive Fortune Teller folded print pieces graced the tables, designed by Anna and Leo.

Helsinqi also provided a Lives Changed slide show, and we were gratified to have kibitzed with videographer Carol Koon on the Lives Changed video she produced.

Thanks to the YWCA of Greater Portland for involving us, and thanks to our sponsorship table guests for turning out to support this hardworking organization!

Fear No Music & Casablanca

Friday, 29 January 2010

Our friends & clients Fear No Music 21st-century classical ensemble perform the 3rd concert of their 18th season tonight in Portland. The concert, entitled Memoirs, features the works of Golijov, Dutilleux, Lou Harrison, and Elvis Costello, and includes guest vocalists Timothy Nishimoto of Pink Martini and Stephen Marc Beaudoin.

This is Helsinqi’s 3rd season as FNM’s design sponsor, and our 8th print program for them. The Memoirs cover features a detail from a photo Anna took in our hotel room in Casablanca in 2000, set against a ground of ink drips.

Mirrors, reflection, windows, ink, writing, and our own memories mingle in what we hope to be an apropos visual complement to tonight’s music. See the larger cover here.

Client: Fear No Music
Project: print program
Team:

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

Big thanks to Isabel Cattadoris our friend & intern who did a lovely job designing and laying out the program interior. See the program as a 3.4MB PDF here.

See complete concert information on the Fear No Music site.