Who we are
We are an intimate design company established in 2000. As part of our overall design offering, we focus mainly on branding and packaging for the drinks trade, both locally and internationally. We specialise in the origination and revitalisation of iconic, luxury and mainstream liquor brands through bespoke, hand-crafted design capabilities.
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Our wealth of experience originates from a time when design was carefully hand-crafted, ensuring an inherent skills level in our studio that gives us a distinct advantage over our competitors. We enjoy working in close partnership with our clients, which has resulted in strong and long-lasting relationships built on professionalism and the ability to answer the most difficult of briefs.
Contact us
We are Cape Town based. Office Hours : Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:30
Email : Kevin Farr | kevin@fvdv.co.za or Iris van der Vlist | iris@fvdv.co.za
What we do
BRAND IDENTITY & NAMING
Who are you? Who are you talking to? What do you want to say? We define your brand and its identity through the creation of a brand name relevant to the brand brain. An overall sense of your brand is established through the name creation and visualisation of an identity that will directly appeal to your target consumer.
FINAL ARTWORK
This is the final step in our creation process. With over 30 years of experience in preparing artwork for print, we are able to ensure that the designs you have approved can be cost-effectively reproduced and perfectly printed across your entire product range. Our expertise includes high-end image manipulation and retouching which, together with our wide technical knowledge of print processes, enables us to supply colour consistent, legally correct, and accurate artwork – efficiently and quickly.
PACKAGING CREATION
This is the greatest area of our expertise, with supremely capable designers crafting the unique face of your brand. It is our business to create packaging that will distinguish your product above its competitors, stand out from the crowd, instantly draw the eye and invite an intense and lasting connection with the mind of the consumer.
PRODUCTION CONSULTING
We stay close to each project as it goes into production, and will liaise with printers and suppliers as required to ensure that your brand arrives in the market place exactly as envisioned, and to assist in a seamless journey from creative concept to realisation.
MOCK UP SERVICE
We bring your packaging to life by transforming our flat artwork into 3-dimensional packs for presentation, market research or advertising. We create finely detailed, hand-made mock ups with Pantone-accurate colours using an exclusive, highly specialised Chromatec system and imported materials. This enables us to replicate luxury print effects such as foil stamping, embossing, matt, gloss and frosted finishes, so your packaging will look and feel like the real thing.