Queer Wine Label

Client 
Co-Fermented x Lightwell Survey
 
Brief
Create a wine label in celebration of queer icons Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. The images should compliment, and celebrate queer/poc activism. The NYC cityscape should be in the background, as well as a nod to the rainbow.

Co-Fermented is an organisation dedicated to creating awareness and facilitating representation for the LGBTQIA+ community within the wine industry.

Sketches

I wanted to depict Marsha throwing a rock, referencing the Stonewall riots and the continuing trans/queer/POC struggle. There’s a little rainbow in building as reference of the capitalist co-opting of pride. The cigarette in hand as a queer read of the Statue of Liberty flame.


For Syliva, i wanted to depict her in a dreaming pose, escaping the boundaries of physicality, with a rainbow element weaving into her dress. Water features in a lot of photos of sylvia, and it was an element i wanted to incorporate. I see the flow of the water representing her continuing legacy.