Growing an Australian sesame brand from the ground up

KSD was engaged by the Australian Sesame Project to help transform an emerging Australian agricultural opportunity into a distinctive premium food brand. With commercial sesame production still in...

Honouring heritage. Positioning a family winery for its next chapter.

Some brands don't need reinventing. They need careful evolution. CERAVOLO has spent generations crafting wines that reflect the character of the Adelaide Hills and the values of a proud Italian fa...

Designing for Place, Provenance and Craft

For Shottesbrooke’s Single Vineyard Series, we evolved the existing label system to elevate the range and better express the individuality of each vineyard, while maintaining continuity with the estab...

Laying the Foundation Stone, a cut above the rest

KS Design Studio helps premium wine and spirit brands evolve with clarity, craft and purpose. Our recent collaboration with Cut Hill Wall Distillery began with Foundation Stone, its first own-release...

Food Nation — Brand Refresh and Evolution

After more than a decade of success, Food Nation’s founder Rachel was ready to evolve her brand. Having created the original identity many years earlier, KSD was again invited to collaborate on its ne...

Label of love

Some labels tell you what’s inside the bottle. Others carry the spirit of the land it came from. At KSD, we believe great design is rooted in story, place and purpose. Our recent collaboration with...

A legacy distilled in Eden

In the Barossa‘s revered subregion of Eden Valley, where six generations have nurtured a winemaking legacy, KS Design Studio captured the spirit of Still in Eden. This brand identity celebrates both p...

Unleash the Dragon

Award-winning Red Dragon Spirits commissioned KSD to encapsulate the essence of this extraordinary creature throughout their brand, packaging and website (reddragonspirits.com.au). Crafted with meticu...

A shining new edition

The ever-evolving and innovative Anita Goode of Wangolina has added ‘Summer’ to the ‘Seasons’ range. Inspired by the wines of Veneto, Italy, this wine is zesty, savoury and intriguing. We felt that a...

A toast to friendship

Tom Kriegshauser and Peter Warr's friendship was forged during their university days and enriched by countless wine soaked moments. Armed with degrees in wine business and winemaking, they nurtured a...

A vibrant transformation

Thorn-Clarke Wines, a proud family-owned winery, has cultivated a remarkable legacy spanning six generations, over 130 years. Their wines have earned global recognition with an impressive collection o...

Soaring in the market

Wangolina is situated in the Mt Benson, Limestone Coast wine region. It is renowned for limestone and terra rossa soils that combine with a maritime cool climate. Anita Goode (owner, winemaker and gro...

Keeping it fresh!

KSD have been working closely with Kimbolton Wines over the last 12 months to design and produce a fresh new look for their core range of still wines, Rosé Spritz (in a can) and ‘Thelma’, a 15 year ol...

A brand revolution

The Kelly family have owned and operated their property in the Yarra Valley for over four generations. Located at the Cellar Door is a majestic 130 year old, heritage listed, oak tree. This was the in...

Off the Beaten Track

Mt Uncle Distillery – 100% Blue Agave Spirit is made using the finest Blue Agave, grown in rich volcanic soils in Far North Queensland. All harvested and crafted by hand then tenderly distilled in a l...

NX GEN – twice as good

Created to be enjoyed now and for generations to come. Shingleback NX GEN Grenache2 captures the coming together of two unique vineyards, 1947 planted bush vines and 1990 planted single-wire trellised...

Liquid Gold

Mt Uncle Iridium Gold Rum is an international multi-award winning rum, fermented using locally sourced sugarcane syrup and aged for 5 years in ex-red wine hogshead barrels. – The packaging design is i...

Ready to pop!

Recent design and packaging for Padthaway Estate ELIZA. Looking glamorous and ready to celebrate! Published: WBM: Wine Business Magazine March 2021 view more

Elegant and Timeless

KSD already had an association with Ben Mullen in his previous role as winemaker for Clyde Park in the Geelong wine district. In 2019 he dared to venture out on his own with business partner Ben Hine...

Absolute Gem

KSD has been working with Chris Insanally of Savitas Wines for several years. Incygnes (a derivation of Latin for ‘gem’ – hence the faceted logo) is the most recent brand development.  The core ran...

With love... XO

These two rare beauties were designed for discerning guests and exclusive to St Hugo cellar door and restaurant in the Barossa Valley.  With only 30 bottles produced, the brandy is on average 36 ye...

Geometric symbolism live on

“In Australia’s wine industry, there is nothing more iconic than Grange Hermitage. It was a pleasure, therefore, to have had its winemaker, John Duval, invite us to design his own label.” These were t...

William Wilson, this one’s for you

A designer’s dream is when a long standing client of some 28 years calls to ask you to produce packaging and marketing material for an ultra premium $300 wine. It began around a long lunch between...

A Crafted Homage to Ancestry

Álainn Fion, meaning “Beautiful Wine” in Gaelic, pays homage to the ancestry of award winning Savitas Wines winemaker Matt O’Leary. Each vintage Matt is given the licence to source highly exclusive...

Design to suit market change

Four years ago we worked with David and Carolyn Brown to launch their new wine brand to the world. The success was immediate and led to international exposure.  With the change in market focus, cam...

Distilling the Dream

Baldwin Distilling Co is one of Australia’s newest distilleries specialising in American Style Bourbon (they have to call it Whiskey). The company was founded to challenge America’s unfair share of...

When the balance is right

This was our extensive brief… I like uncluttered, landscape, white high quality textured stock, modern font, simple back label with minimal information. Ceteris paribus – meaning all things being equa...

It’s a collaborative wrap

Shrink sleeves have been around a while now and often used on sparkling wine for seasonal or limited release promotion. They are a fabulous way to utilise maximum real estate on the bottle and gain th...

Longevity

Almost 18 years ago to the day, Andrew Nugent arrived in our studio (then Ian Kidd Design) and unveiled his dream to build a world class winery experience. With no name, an old dairy farm covered in...

Vision, Viticulturist, V Generation

You can't be a fifth generation grape grower without developing intuitive knowledge of how quality fruit makes great wine. It's in Simon’s blood. The result is a range of classic Adelaide Hills cool-c...

Building a Brand

Walkers International have been growing strawberries at their properties in Mylor and Woodside for 16 years. A natural progression to value add to their product and join the fast growing cider mark...

A Legend Returns

It was in the Melbourne Olympic Games year of 1956 that Orlando Wines first released Barossa Pearl, the sweet sparkling wine that weaned a generation off sherry and port and introduced them to table w...

History Sealed

An exceptional vintage in 2010 provided Hugh Hamilton with the fruit to fulfill his dreams of creating a pre-eminent wine and KSD the opportunity to collaborate and produce this truly hand crafted pre...

A Smooth Landing

Landaire is a family owned label by David and Carolyn Brown. After 16 years of growing grapes and fine tuning their vine management, Landaire evolved from a desire to put the very best of what they pr...

The Design is in the Detail

Selling wine is not easy these days. Selling a $130 bottle is even harder. 10 years ago we designed the Hare’s Chase brand and the packaging for 2 wine ranges. Our client came in earlier this year...

The story is Threefold

In 2009, Mark Pearce joined Kellermeister as their CEO and with the owners of 35 years, Ralph and Val Jones, set about rejuvenating the well-known Barossa brand. Following the retirement of the Jon...

Loyal, not precious

10 years ago (almost to the day) we presented to Hugh Hamilton and his team our re-designed branding and packaging concepts, introducing the black sheep. Since then, this lovable rogue has transgresse...

Quality, time, cost – pick two

I wish I had a dollar for every time I've said this to a client at the first briefing. Rarely do you get all three, but in this instance we did, and the result speaks for itself. Mark Watkins is the o...

When Bling Rules

Designing labels for a sparkling wine is a whole different ball game. It’s all about occasion and celebration. Tearing off the gilded hood, untwisting the muselet, the anticipation of popping the c...

Niccolo joins the winners list

Local South Australian, Scott Matthews has a long history in the hospitality industry and he and his then wife to be, Tammie, arrived in our offices with a very exciting project – to package the first...

Clare’s newest addition

We were delighted to be approached by Tim Adams and his wife Pam Goldsack after his recent purchase of the old Leasingham property in the Clare Valley. It was a homecoming for Tim as he spent many hou...