Do you think you can handle these tough brews from Sooke Oceanside Brewery? Designed by Hired Guns Creative, each beer variety has its own story to tell. With rough-looking, worn-in labels, Sooke Oceanside Brewery offers four hearty craft beers: a pale ale, blonde ale, red ale, and IPA. Each one comes in a traditional amber bottle and a blue and red logo that gives the brand a fiery and strong appearance to reflect the surprising flavors of the beer inside.

“For Sooke Oceanside Brewing, we were tasked with creating a brand world centred around a lineup of products with strong family resemblance, yet with enough flexibility to allow for custom illustrations for each product. We decided to unify the brand with a bold, graphic approach, drawing on the aesthetics of barber shops and advertising art from the 1930s. For the label design system, we developed a hybrid approach: some of the framing and secondary design elements are consistent across the lineup, while others correspond to the iconic, central illustration. Custom typography, for example, is harmonized across the product lineup by letterform, and unified within the individual label by ornament. The labels all come together with a decorative die shape and an eye-catching colour palette.”