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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!

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!

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!