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The first question many people asked me when I told them I was going on a battlefield tour to Greece and North Macedonia was, why are you going…

The first question many people asked me when I told them I was going on a battlefield tour to Greece and Macedonia was, why are you going there?

Packaging Substrate / Materials: Glass bottle Printing Process: Soft touch laminate, raised varnish This is probably one of the funniest and hilarious project ever done by me – maybe equally crazy to Lozeto. It’s a design I was commissioned to create for a Pet Nat produced by Orbelia winery. We did not do any brief about this project – all was decided in a short lunch break at the Doctor’s Garden in Sofia. All we wanted was something very fresh, very colorful, yet memorable and...

Melnik, Bulgaraia (Shutterstock) In the years when I was a frequent face in Bulgaria, the wine region I liked most was Melnik in the south-west of the country, just north of the Greek border at Fort Roupel. It was the hottest region in Bulgaria and centred on the Struma Valley. Surrounded by steep mountains, the hillside vineyards were unsuitable for the collective kolkhoz treatment meted out on the plains south of the Balkan Range, where quantity had triumphed over quality. The ...