Brewdog’s Lone Wolf by B&B Studio, United Kingdom
Posted: Filed under: Food and Drink, Graphic Design Reviews, Packaging Reviews | Tags: Alcohol Packaging, Bottle Label Design, Brand Identity Reviews, Branding & Packaging of 2017, Branding Blog, Branding Reviews, Brewdog, British Design, Creative Packaging, Design Blog, Design For Print, Design Opinion, Design Reviews, Designed by B&B Studio, From the United Kingdom, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Blog, Logo Design & Branding Blog, Logo Designs, Material Thinking, Packaging Company, Packaging Design Resource, Packaging Shortlist 2017, Structural Package Design, The Best Graphic Design Work of 2017, The Very Best of 2017, The Very Best of BP&O, The Very Best Packaging of 2017, Typography Comments Off on Brewdog’s Lone Wolf by B&B Studio, United KingdomOpinion by Richard Baird.
Lone Wolf—a whisky, gin and vodka range—marks Brewdog’s entry into the craft spirits market. These are produced by Brewdog’s distillery in Scotland, the only one to make base spirit from grain under one roof, a roof specially modified to accommodate a 19m high 60-plate rectification column to get the purest results possible.
The range features a brand identity and packaging design created by London-based B&B Studio. This is described as being in defiance of category codes and conventions, and features a stripped back label design and wolf’s head motif as expressions of product purity and the brand’s outsider stance. The range will be available at Brewdog bars, and as part of Brewdog’s equity scheme. This post was updated November 2017 with images and thoughts on the design of Lone Wolf’s new tonic water and G&T range.
Brewdog Abstrakt by O Street, United Kingdom
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Brewdog’s Abstrakt is a limited edition craft beer concept that has released 20 different varieties since it began in 2010. Each beer is bottle-conditioned (bottled with a small amount of yeast, providing further fermentation and maturation), brewed and released just once, individually numbered and known only by their release code. It is a concept described as more art than beer, as boundary pushing and blurring the line between categories.
Graphic design studio O Street worked with Brewdog to create a new brand identity and packaging system for Abstrakt, informed by its creative, limited edition concept, flavour varieties, individually crafted nature and the use of release codes rather than names. This is expresses through colour, typography, print finish and structural design.