I also decided to look into French agriculture, looking at landscapes, plants, owers and produce in the hopes of inspiration for the wine bottle label packaging. This is mentioned on the brief guidelines. There is the opportunity here to use French agriculture in an illustration to create the label.
France has the world's seventh largest economy by nominal figures by IMF estimates for the year 2017 and the tenth largest economy by PPP figures. It has the third-largest economy in Europe with Germany in 1st. The OECD is headquartered in Paris, the nation's financial capital.
The chemical industry is a key sector for France, helping to develop other manufacturing activities and contributing to economic growth.France's tourism industry is a major component of the economy, as France is the most visited destination in the world. Sophia Antipolisis the major technology hub for the economy of France. According to the IMF, in 2013, France was the world's 20th country by GDP per capitawith $44,099 per inhabitant. In 2013, France was listed on the United Nations's Human Development Index with 0.884 (very high human development) and 25th on the Corruption Perceptions Index.
France's economy entered the recession of the late 2000s later and appeared to leave it earlier than most affected economies, only enduring four-quarters of contraction. However, France experienced stagnant growth between 2012 and 2014, with the economy expanding by 0% in 2012, 0.8% in 2013 and 0.2% in 2014, though growth picked up in 2015 with a growth of 1.2% and a growth of 1.3% for 2016, and a forecasted growth of 1.3% for 2017 and 1.6% for 2018, the highest since 2011 (2.1%).
French Wine
French wine is produced all throughout France, in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year, or 7–8 billion bottles. France is one of the largest wine producers in the world.[1] French wine traces its history to the 6th century BC, with many of France's regions dating their wine-making history to Roman times. The wines produced range from expensive high-end wines sold internationally to more modest wines usually only seen within France such as the Margnat wines were during the post war period.
Two concepts central to higher end French wines are the notion of "terroir", which links the style of the wines to the specific locations where the grapes are grown and the wine is made, and the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) system. Appellation rules closely define which grape varieties and winemaking practices are approved for classification in each of France's several hundred geographically defined appellations, which can cover entire regions, individual villages or even specific vineyards.
France is the source of many grape varieties (Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot noir, Sauvignon blanc, Syrah) that are now planted throughout the world, as well as wine-making practices and styles of wine that have been adopted in other producing countries. Although some producers have benefited in recent years from rising prices and increased demand for some of the prestige wines from Burgundy and Bordeaux, the French wine industry as a whole has been influenced by a decline in domestic consumption, while internationally, it has had to compete with the increased success of many new world wines.[2]
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