A Texas Brown Ale with a twist. Brewed with Warrior, Columbus and Simcoe, habaneros chilli and prickly pear. 

Garage Project had just moved on to canning their beers and I was asked to make a label that would seamlessly wrap all the way around the can.

The style reference given to me was "Grahame Sydney goes to Texas." Dramatic blue skies and weathered, sun baked buildings. The building in this case is of course the garage.

Bright Side was brewed for the launch of the Garage Project taproom on Aro St, Wellington.

I was asked to create a design that played off the artwork of one of the brewery's first beers - Aro Noir, a pitch black stout for the dark side of Aro Valley. The new taproom, however, was fortunately located on the sun drenched side of the road, hence the name Bright Side.

I set about designing a bizarro version of Noir, the opposite in both composition and treatment. Replacing the black and white, moody angles with vivid swirling patterns and colours not dissimilar to the paintings of Gustav Klimt.