Permutations

Permutations was the project we had where we had to come up with 12 wine labels for a brand of wine called Permutations. We had a list of famous people on which we could base the wines on. I decided to base mine on Grouch Marx. My boyfriend got me in to the Marx brothers as he is a huge fan - especially of Groucho.
The meaning of permutation is:


permutation |ˌpərmyoŏˈtā sh ən|
nouna way, esp. one of several possible variations, in which a set or number of things can be ordered or arranged : his thoughts raced ahead to fifty different permutations of what he must do.• Mathematics the action of changing the arrangement, esp. the linear order, of a set of items.DERIVATIVESpermutational |-ˈtā sh ənəl| adjectiveORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [exchange, barter] ): via Old French from Latin permutatio(n-), from the verb permutare ‘change completely’ (see permute I decided to play on this a little bit and have each one of the different types of wines with a letter from Groucho's name (I realize that equals 11, so the last wine was simply named Grouch). I then decided that for each letter would be a sum of some sort that would equal the number in the alphabet that made up his name. I then color coded the lettering in red and white to symbolize the color of the wine.