The explosive big bang home-brew trilogy is back in time for bonfire night.
Big Bang, Short Fuse, and Pocket Rocket, my home-brew beers have made a welcome return this October just in time for bonfire night.
The trilogy is back this October!
I haven’t made a home-brew for a while now and since we’re heading into deepest and darkest autumn I thought it was time to get the beer making kit out and start the brewing process in readiness for the long winter nights!
I have always loved watching fireworks but I also get just as excited by looking at the brilliant designs, typography, vivid colours, packaging, shapes and sizes of the actual firework themselves. The graphic design plays just as an important role to me as the explosive bang it produces.
Last year I wanted to pay homage to these British iconic symbols for my latest home-brew project underway at the time. For this autumn I wanted to create a just as suitably appropriate label. I thought to myself why not resurrect last years version instead of trying to reinvent the wheel!
And so I dusted off the printer, inserted ink cartridges and breathed a new lease of life into one of my favorite beer labels. CHEERS.
For full details on the fireworks beer label design process, click here Firecracker beer.
A homage to the classic pocket rockets.
Light the fuse and stay well back! A close up of the tissue paper used to cover the bottle top, designed to look like the classic tough papers on top of fireworks and rockets.
A closeup of the beer labels showing the three distinct logos, typography and colours used to reflect the classic firework packaging
The Firecracker party pack packaging above.
Artwork for Pocket Rocket, Short Fuse and The Big Bang beer labels.
Party pack packaging artwork.
Artwork for the party pack stick flag.
For previous beer label creations click the links for Flipperooney, The Wonky Woo Wa and Spring has Sprung