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Michael, you rule!

Sorry… but this isn’t good design. You can even look inside the portuguese market. There are A LOT of other oil brands that have much better bottles, like Gallo for instance.

Anyway………..

Striking. Good form, and they let the natural colour take precedent.
Well done!

SO cheerful!

Beautiful.

well done! excellent! where can we order the oil. I will be in portugal soon.

Beautiful design. Very elegant.
It will be part of the kitchen decoration.

It is quite interesting that such an established company took the challenge of revamp the image. I know quite well the Portuguese market and i’ve been thinking how is the market going to approach this. The Portuguese society is changing bit by bit. And we can see that many other brands have been changing the aesthetics. Gallo and Oliveira da Serra (olive oil brands), SG Lights (now SG Azul) and many others.

I congratulate Quinta de S. Vicente for it. I would say that Michael Young was a vey good choise, indeed. And i wish many more companies, specially traditional ones to follow the steps.
It is time to change. Portugal has to modernise faster. It is a very much interesting country and it is important to show it outside even more.

I will, definitely, buy one of each sizes as soon as i get there (hope soon for holidays).

My favorite ‘font’. Great design but will it sell?

this guy is a f**king dude , enough said !

this is super nice!!!! photography is pretty amazing to!

altho.. i think the cap spoils such a pure form… would have been nicer with a cork!

i agree with zenza, there are much better bottle designs for other companies… its very Tesco high street… i would think that for such an established and long running company a more elegant solution would have been produced.

This bottle is gorgeous, and M. Young is the man. Of course people will second guess it for the sake of it, but this is one of the most beautiful packaging solutions I’ve seen in awhile.

Minha Nossa!
EU prefiro Gallo tambem!

Michael, SOme of your designs rock, some don’t. THis one is ssssoooooo eghhheahhh well, boring. Maybe it was the client!

DUde, your tree coatstand really could have done with some more umm… refinement!

BRian

Hey Brian

Dont normally bother with this but im bored at the airport .

I live to rock but I dont always design to rock , the issue is to make designs that forefill the commercial criteria of a company. In not an artist , far from it.

Infact as design heads into more bullshit i think I will find it more entertaining to bore people as a new concept ,but im not design for this website or you.

The tree was a cooperation with artist, katrin olina , so it had the flavour another. Its there highest selling product . become an icon of sweden so i think that makes it good design .

Any way whatever dude, its no big deal , im living the life !

myx

Michael,

i loved you reply.
That’s the way.

eli tom x

I didn’t love the reply but I did love the bottle. I am portuguese and I must say the bottle fits exactly in our market and in our absolute need to export the good stuff we produce. If you buy the bottle and if you have the courage to open it, gradually losing its wonderful color, you will taste an amazing olive oil. The only solution will be to have 2 bottles 1 for using the other for contemplating. Well done!

from what i see outside the realms of serious production i can relate to michaels comment , the design is good but having met him a few years ago understand the comment and frustrations that exist for such designers ,who are expected to pull a rabbit out of a hat to make a living . design /art can do that for the wrong reasons . this is solid stuff, the job is great , the comment correct

If the bottle look this good…I wouldn’t mind displaying it on the kitchen counter!! Oh it would be such a waste to drop them out!