GV – Good show, very engaging. QOTD – Miedinger, Saarinen, Johnson, H.H. Richardson

love your use of the von sternberg principle Gary. look that up…

Buenos Aires….oh wait, I mean Paul Rand, Paula Scher, Milton Glaser, Saul Bass, Frank Lloyd Wright…hard to pick just one. Also there’s a new crop of invigorating designers and design groups, that I’m having trouble remembering their names.

Great SHOW concept.

EVEN BETTER, a reference to Cecil Cooper and Cecil Fielder. Brewer nation applauds on what is a most exciting time for Brewerdom (you can’t say that often either).

QOTD: Living near Taliesin, I have to go Frank Lloyd Wright. My father is crazy for the man’s work as well.

Note to self: Loire Valley wine on the list.

Sweet! Architecture finally made it into WLTV! Note that my list has a total lack of shitty, nonsense, modernist, crap architects who build things that destroy cities while glorifying the architects ego. See “Beijing Olympics” for a list of some terrible offenders, and add Rem Koolhaus and Zaha Hadid, and toss in a little Steven Holl for fun. Grotesque, irresponsible nonsense. The way you are with over oaked wines is how I am with contemporary architects who seem determined to destroy our world. Ugh! but, on a lighter note, here is my QOTD answer…

QOTD: It is tough for me to pick a favorite architect, so I’m giving you a brief list:

Louis Sullivan
Daniel Burnham
H.H. Richardson
McKim, Mead and White
Andrea Palladio
Edwin Lutyens
Julia Morgan
John Nash
Frank Lloyd Wright
John Russell Pope

A white Priorat….cool.

QOTD: Nadda clue.

great show. the 04 nun vinya taus was caRaZy – diesel fuel for days. Im a graphic designer myself, and bought it because of the label (and ester nin’s pedigree).

QOTD: Graphic:
Herbert Matter
Lester Beall
Stephan Sagmeister

Architects:
Mies
John Pawson
Peter Zumthor

Why you hatein’ on Mott Gary?

QOTD: ???

Great times having a rookie on there. He did quite well.

ok show.
QOTD: I painted my house once, does that count?

My favorite designer designed racing cars. He was a guy called Colin Chapman who founded Lotus cars in the 50’s. Aside from being an engineering genius, he designed some of the best looking racing cars ever – the Lotus 49 Ford Cosworth, the Lotus 38 Ford Indy 500 winning car and the Vanwall VW5 F1 car of 1958 – stunning cars.

Great episode, my brother buys his wine purely based on the label.

Hey, nice episode!
My favorite designer/architect is Santiago Calatrava…must see some of his work.

Just an OK episode. QOTD should have been: Whats the most interesting wine label you have come across?

Too often uneducated buyers lean for the look of the label to choose a wine… hasn’t anyone learned that its whats on the inside that counts!

Great episode GV…youre the Howard Stern of wine.

Marc Newson(nike zvezdochka)coolest shoe ever…

Gary, Brett Favre is going to be the quarterback of the NY Jets…….

Great ep G …. Like when you have guest , gives a different prospective.
QOTD— How about Henry Dreyfuss .. a great industrial designer of the 20th century.

As a former graphic artist (still do it on the side) Strat’s first answer was contradicting (2005 Nun Vinya Dels Taus.) He said most labels are plain and then he said this label was kinda plain. I think the modern minimalistic look of the label is what makes it interesting and the die-cut is much different than most labels. Label seems very California New School.

(2006 J Mourat Fiefs Vendeens Collection Red) I agree about the shape of the bottle. Label is ok…looks alot like others.

(2005 John Anthony Cabernet Sauvignon) The use of font in that typographical design is very nice and the paper is much different than most other california wines with very glossy paper stock….label is mix of old and new.

Overall I never bought a horrible bottle of wine just picking by the artwork. I would think mostly that if the producer puts that much work, time, & money into the label, the most likely isnt swill.

David Carson

Yo Guyz, Fuuun Episode !!!! Cooool Vinos !!! Yo G, rumor is…..da
Jets might be gettin’ Brett Farve…….How ’bout dat ????????

QOTD: Me, when i do somethin’ “productive” at me Hizzy……..

QOTD: very hard to pick one, but the list would have to include Peter Zumthor ( http://tinyurl.com/6rawal & http://tinyurl.com/5ul7kn ) Todd Williams + Billie Tsien ( http://www.twbta.com/ ) as well as Renzo Piano ( http://rpbw.r.ui-pro.com/ )… main reason is all of these architects are true craftsman. their design is meaningful and thoughtful and as much as personal branding is a good thing, they don’t use their buildings to create that brand like a couple of Franks (gehry & wright).

Another great guest. VERY interesting concept show. Loved the contrast between the breakdown of the label design and the breakdown of the wine.

QOTD: The late, great Salvadore Dali. What a face, what an artist.

Strat might be on his way to a sophisticated wine palate. For a newbie drinker he was pretty in touch with his complexity side. And nice to get the lowdown on design.

QOTD: Japanese architect Tadao Ando. He’s a local of Osaka and I live in Kobe (same region) and my neighborhood is full of his buildings. Gotta love a world famous architect who gives back to his community. A Japanese graphic designer I gotta give props to is the late, great Yusaku Kamekura. He designed the posters for the 64 Tokyo Olympics and the 70 Osaka Expo.

Don’t know any commercial graphic designers.
My favorite visual artist must be Mark Rothko, though!

pretty cool episode here. A nice return from an extended layoff of watching this.

QOTD: I’m going to go with Bill Joy on this one. He’s the creator of Vi, the best text editor I have used to date. The program was designed to be extremely efficient and has changed the way I want to work with my computer entirely. Like wine though the program is an acquired taste and with age both user and program get better 😀

Nice twist on wine interest, the labels. Sometimes I avoid buying a wine because I think their labels are silly and I don’t want to buy a silly wine.
QoTd
Don’t know graphic design, but in art I love Monet, love B. Makowski leather, and Ralph Lauren.