We created branding design and packaging design (specifically beer can design!) for Firebloome, a series of delicious and unique beers designed by Glasgow-based nano-brewery entrepreneur Barry Best. Barry needed support to create an underlying brand for his beers, as well as a logo design for his business - and then to roll that out across different products that would each have their own identity within that world.
The first leg of the Firebloome journey involved limited edition product packaging designs for multiple beer cans, incorporating illustration and collage. The beers were inspired by adventures in travel, and that’s the jumping-off point for each of the bespoke, tactile designs; the designing principle of the tagline, Brewed in Curiosity, inspired everything from the collages on the cans, to Barry’s far-flung flavours.






Branding and Packaging Design for Glasgow’s Firebloome Nanobrewery
The Firebloome concept was rooted in founder Barry Best’s adventures in globetrotting. Barry had maintained a successful travel blog for many years, and had dreamed up a range of small-batch beers drawing from some of his favourite experiences and flavours discovered on his adventures. So this became a designing principle for the product development, and for our own branding design work on the project. Firebloome had to be a platform that could take us into very diverse and far-flung places, graphically and conceptually.
This really came to life in our product packaging designs for the beer cans. We created rich, dense collages made of textures, colours, and artworks depicting fruit, nature, and methods of travel (including fanciful or even fictional vehicles). These were deep, layered collages; unique imagery with tasteful muted palettes, designed to subvert the modern trend of incredibly saturated and loud beer can design and thus stand out on the shelf with a more restrained approach.