The A.Doc society presents the TXLabel component, which is a child of the 
TLabel but can be rotated as you want (set the Angle property in degrees) 
and also has a 3D border effect (the Color property sets the color of the 
border and the Relief boolean property sets the visiblity of this border). 
It is not very well written but this sort of label was missing me in Delphi.
Use it and enhance the source as you like and if you are proud of your job,
send me a copy ! Have fun.