So I have my ideas about the wine bottle and case pretty much set. First the case. My wine is Big Fire, so my theme will be fire. First of all, I don't want to use the normal sort of media. I hate fitting in with all the other designs, thus the type-only egw logo, and the vote poster that didn't use the vote/voice alliteration or a check mark. And I love exploring ideas in different media applied to the same problems. So my media on this one is fire and wood. So burnt wood. I'm pretty good at working with wood because I built a home theatre projector with wood and I got some good fire experience in boy scouts. Anyway, I've been experimenting with my new toy (propane torch), and how to mask my logo on a piece of wood to burn it on there. Below is one of my experiments.

My new toy


Before


Burnt


Result... not what I wanted



I figured out how to fix this problem. It's a bitch to do, but I have to cut the mask out of aluminum flashing-- metal sheets used in air conditioning. They tend to lift up the same way the lighter metal did, but I can hold it down with a pair of pliers and at least they won't catch fire, fly away, and threaten to set a big pile of leaves on fire. No photos, but it works, trust me.