Focus on Change Subject of Museum Exhibit

The Manassas Museum, one of the top-ranked regional Museums in the country, recently paid homage to the Virginia Piedmont region. The exhibit developed is part of the heritage series “From Cows to Condos” that uses educational programs and interactive learning to educate students and museum visitors about the significant changes in the county through the years.

A cultural and economic crossroads, from pre-colonial settlers, to historic railroad systems shipping local produce to market, to the commercial airways of today, Manassas's varied story deserved to be told. With the whimsical title "From Cows to Condos," it was!

A. Guy Studio L.L.C. was asked by the museum curator, Roxanna Adams, to develop a logo that told the story of this exhibit, while being adaptable enough to be reproduced for a plethora of uses.

The name "Cows to Condos" provided rich "fodder" for the visual imagery used in this logo. The barn in the background is a rendering of a historic "brick barn" located in the Manassas city limits. The road dividing the logo symbolizes the line of commercial development that has occurred in this area, with rural lands being toward the west of Manassas and business towards the east.

The cow...is just a cow.

{Logotype as seen in the Washington Post}

New Projects, New Projects...

...of various natures are rolling in.  Just for a quick update, here are some of the things either in the works at A. Guy Studio, just starting to be designed or are coming out soon:

1. Wild Scotsman Whisky:  An ultra premium single cask single malt offering, aged 12 years, Speyside, Scotland.  The design has a multiple labeling system, incorporating areas for hand signing, hand numbering and cask number registering.  This whisky is bottled at the House of MacDuff in Linwood Scotland and is full dram with a velvety finish and perfect viscosity, leaving fine "legs" on the glass.  Enough said.
2. First Colony Winery:  A new summer blush wine...details still secret until the launch!  www.firstcolonywinery.com.
   
3. Manassas Museum:  Launching now, a new line of A. Guy Studio branded products has been created, expanding their product portfolio into items like a stainless steel, eco-friendly reusable water bottles, various kitchen products...just a ton of "good stuff" which will be posted soon.
   
4. George Washington's Historic Mount Vernon/Mount Vernon Distillery-#1 stop on the National Whiskey Trail:  Two lines of authentic spirits are in design development by A. Guy Studio for GW's fascinating, rebuilt and operational 18th century distillery.  One new spirit is priced for the average consumer and history lover, the other for the American whiskey connoisuer.  More details about these items cannot be divulged until the product release. However, this design and marketing plan for this historically accurate pair has been crafted to hit sales and marketing goals (plus they look of the period-with some twists-and are great fun to design).
5. Chesapeake Bay Distilling Company, Chesapeake, Virginia, makers of Blue Ridge Vodka: These guys have two new tasty products coming out...Blue Ridge Honeysuckle Peach Flavored Vodka (the name says it all...over ice on a hot summer's day, c'mon.) and a sister product with a refreshing taste "profile" unlike anything else on the market.  Too bad it is in the final stages of development, or I would divulge more.  Look for it soon!  You can't miss the all natural look of the brand packaging.  It utilizes a charming rendition of the rolling Blue Ridge Mountains behind graphic and illustrative flavor cues, plus a cheerful use of their mascot, a Virginia cardinal.
6. Vino Curioso:  The boys at Vino Curioso's Wine Factory have successfully launched their newest red blend, "Yesterday," (see post below) and are hard at work, crafting new varietals and blends with packaging and imagery to match.  Will post some shots when they are released.  Until then, you can find their wines at many VA ABC stores, at a wine fest near you!, online at www.vinocurioso.com and soon at their new tasting facilities at the Virginia Wine Factory outside of Manassas, VA...not too far from DC, so city-folk!  Come out to "the country" and have great wine with a fun design look.

More items in the works, this is just a taste.  Check back soon!