It’s conference season! The Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers held its annual conference in Kennewick a couple of weeks ago. We were there – as were clients Inland Desert Nursery and Royal Organics.

Next up is the Oregon Wine Alliance annual show in Portland. This is the first year that we’ll be going down to see how they do it in the State to the South.

How you go to Portland without hopping over the Coast Range  to the ocean I don’t know. So we’re down to the Newport Seafood and Wine event after OWA. Fresh crab… Mo’s Clam Chowder… A chance to exercise the camera…

Happy February! And remember (here’s the pitch!), if we can help you prepare for your industry trade show, we’d love to. Displays are incredibly fun to design. There’s ROOM on a display that isn’t usually available on a print or web piece! And don’t forget to take into consideration the need to create a look to your display that is consistent with the rest of your brand/image! Print collateral, web and social media all need to look like the same company the display represents.

Contact is easy: info@saranelsondesign.com or call (509) 545-4584. Even when we’re down at the beach, there’ll be someone to talk to there!

American Package Design Awards

Every year we enter our best work from the previous year into a few national professional competitions. We like to see how it stacks up to work from the rest of the country.

The 2013 GDUSA American Package Design Awards arrived yesterday. Six of them, this time. And we’d like to thank the clients – Gypsy Girl Granola and Basel Cellars, Barrel Springs and Carl’s Pond Wineries – who made that possible.

Product packaging isn’t the only design work we do – there are dozens of logos, dozens of websites and a few hundred print pieces completed in this last couple of years – but it is a favorite.

At that, we’re probably better known for wine label design than any other product, but we have completed quite a few award-winning packaging projects for agriculture, food products and professional recruiting as well.

It’s fun. And it’s fun to get mail like GDUSA’s package yesterday!

If we can help raise the market’s awareness of your company and or product, please call us at (509) 545-4584 or drop and email to info@saranelsondesign.com. We’d love to chat with you…

The crew at Sara Nelson Design has been running so fast to keep up with autumn that we haven’t had a chance to update the page in several months!

Around Labor Day every year, things speed up. With birthdays, holidays, seasonal events, and a now-traditional company open house Tuesday before Thanksgiving, it doesn’t slow down till we flip past that final page and hang a new calendar.

We hope 2012 was great for you, your company, your friends and your family. If we can help you get ready for 2013 – whether with a fresh look to your logo or packaging, or helping you to break through the clutter in any other way, please call or email. We’d love to chat!

Don’t forget to take a peek at our portfolio galleries while you’re at the website here, by the way. Here are a few quick links to Wine Labels, Web Design, Print Projects, Packaging, Logos and Illustration for you.
Thank you!