Custom wine labels can add a touch of class and creativity to your home wine making. If you have stimulated your creativity by making your own tasty and satisfying wine, why not go one step further and create your own individually designed label to go with it? Now that we live in the age of the multimedia computer, it has never been easier or cheaper to add your own unique touch to your wine bottles.
Although you want your custom wine labels to be unique, it is still a good idea to study the work of other designers first. If you take some time to look at what other talented artists are able to produce, it should stimulate some original ideas.
Have a look at some other creative designs related to food and wine as well, such as designs on plates and jars. Anything you see could just give you the spark of an original idea which you can bring into your custom wine labels.
Visit your favorite wine shop and pay close attention to the labels that catch your eye. Consider the following types of designs. Which appeals to you most?
- Formal, informal
- Modern, contemporary, retro, county
- Floral, geometric, high-fashion
- Photographic, engraved, symbolic
- Simple, complex
- Trendy, offbeat, classic, elegant, personal
- Mascot, caricature, humorous
Other things you need to consider are: the size and shape of the label, the number of colors used, the type of printing process you will use. Will you use adhesive labels or use a better grade of paper and a bit of glue?
Do you want to establish your own personal brand? What name will you give it? Will you need a logo?
Or would you prefer to make unique label for each batch of wine?
If you are artistic, you may choose to commit your design to paper before you begin to work on the computer. This can make it easier to create the design, especially if you are not that experienced at using graphic design programs. Of course, this is by no means mandatory, and if you feel you would sooner just start from scratch on the PC, by all means go ahead. Just do whatever works for you.
A Custom Wine Label Requires a Custom Design
To create genuine custom wine labels, you will need to create your own individual design, rather than using one of the websites which give you a template design and add your text to it. These are easy and incredibly fast to use, but the only thing truly customized will be the text. Use a graphics program to design your own label from scratch, and the whole thing will be truly custom.
If you have Photoshop on your computer, you will have the best tool on the market for creating your labels. If you don’t, and you can’t face the expense involved in buying it, you can download graphics programs for free which will do a similar job. Most of the advanced features of Photoshop would not have been needed anyway. Just print your designs off onto adhesive paper, and you will have created your own custom wine labels.
Don’t forget to have some fun too. You enjoyed the challenge of making your own wine, so you should take equal pride and pleasure in creating custom labels for your own wine bottles.
