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Milton Glaser creates new look for Brooklyn Brewery

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Date
25 April 2016
Three different packs of Brooklyn Brewery beer are lined up against a green background. The packs feature “Brooklyn Sorachi Ace”, “Brooklyn Lager” and “Brooklyn Summer Ale” with matching bottles standing behind them.

Milton Glaser has refreshed the packaging designs for Brooklyn Brewery. The designer has worked with the brand for years on projects including creating a new look for the brand’s Blast! IPA, and this is the first time the company has refreshed its entire look in its 30 year history.

The new designs aim to showcase a “fresh and bold” aesthetic, according to Brooklyn Brewery, “while remaining un-mistakenly Brooklyn.” The new designs will start to roll out over the next few months.

“Milton will be 87 this year but he goes to work every day at his office in Manhattan. I think he has done some of his best work in the past five years,” says Brooklyn Brewery co-founder and chairman Steve Hindy. “Last year, we asked him to refresh our packaging for a new generation of beer drinkers. He has done it brilliantly. The new packaging is unmistakably Brooklyn Brewery, but it links our diverse portfolio together on the store shelves in a colourful billboard effect that has ‘shelf authority’ and is sure to inspire others.”

Four yellow cardboard packs of Brooklyn Brewery “Scorcher IPA” are lined up side by side. Each pack holds four bottles and features a large circular logo with a stylized “B”.
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Milton Glaser: Brooklyn Lager redesign

A 3D render of a six-pack of Brooklyn Brewery “Scorcher IPA” beer bottles in a yellow cardboard carrier. The bold black typography on the packaging reads “Scorcher IPA” and “Brooklyn Brewery”.
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Milton Glaser: Brooklyn Lager redesign

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Emily Gosling

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Emily joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in the summer of 2014 after four years at Design Week. She is particularly interested in graphic design, branding and music. After working It's Nice That as both Online Editor and Deputy Editor, Emily left the company in 2016.

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