Mother's Brewing Company

When we started on the Mother's Brewing Co. packaging design, what stood out the most was just how many types of beers there were. Each one has a different personality that comes along with it — some more assertive, some more delicate, and some just plain wild. We developed an illustration system that allowed us to pay tribute to every beer’s sensibilities.

Awards

Gold American Advertising Award

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Insight

Mother's Brewing doesn't make one beer, it makes a whole range, and every one has its own personality, some assertive, some delicate, some just plain wild. Packaging a lineup like that is harder than packaging one flagship. Go too uniform and the beers blur together on the shelf. Go too different and the brand falls apart. And there's a second problem most breweries forget: great packaging gets a beer noticed, but it doesn't close the sale. Distributors and servers do. The work had to make the whole range feel like one family and give the people selling it the tools to actually move it.

Solution

We built an illustration system flexible enough to give every beer its own character while keeping the whole lineup unmistakably Mother's. Each label pays tribute to its beer's personality, assertive, delicate, or wild, so the range reads as one family of distinct individuals instead of a set of strangers sharing a logo. Then we did the part most design stops short of. Because delicious beer and cool packaging don't sell themselves, we built Mother's and their distributors a full sales toolkit: physical sell sheets, digital selling decks, server training cards, everything the people actually moving the product needed to launch the new packaging with confidence. The result gave a whole brewery lineup a coherent, characterful look on the shelf, and gave the sales team what they needed to turn that shelf presence into orders.

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