Anolith wins 2024 Graphis award

We are not only pleased but also rather excited to announcement we recently received a Graphis Inc. award for their 2024 Poster Competition. Graphis holds design competitions in various categories every year since basically forever. Major movie and television networks, international caused-based organizations, musical artists and giant brands are the typical contenders. Our contribution this year was for a local business.

The poster series was to promote the opening of a new bistro pub in Denver. We created an immersive narrative for the client for an interesting company story (literally) and customer engagement. The ad series depicts what we call the Three Witches of Taste, representing the various forms of cocktails and what they do for the palate and the mind through stages of inebriation.

Why is a raven like a writing-desk?

The character in the DRINK poster is Edith Liddell (younger sister to Alice from Lewis Carroll’s famous Wonderland). She represents mischief and temptation, having had bewitched the rabbit to coax Alice down the hole in the first place. She’s an instigator, seducer, a temptress — the prototypical party girl.

Il était une fois.

In the DRANK poster we see Laidronette from the French fairy tale Le Serpentin Vert (The Green Serpent or The Green Dragon). She serves as the embodiment of taste and sophistication. All the different alcohols used to make the various high end beer and liquors are guided by her magic — the fairy godmother of manners and savoring brewed, fermented, distilled and vinous nectars.

Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.

The DRUNK poster shows Wendy the Wendigo. Wendy Darling (after her adventures in Neverland) became a bit of a gourmand, relishing booze in search of a lost nostalgia. She represents escapism, intoxication, excess, the voraciousness of overindulgence and spiritous greed.