Wine and Beer Guide
Beer Labels: Reach for a Cool One
As craft beer booms, label design is the liveliest blend of folk art, graphic design, and local subcultures in the American food scene.
Full Steam Summer Basil
A Bit of Restraint
Breweries are often small, overworked, and cash-strapped. Labels with fewer colors cost less but can look terrific. Durham,
North Carolina’s Fullsteam Brewery works in a clean, hip, retro-with-a-twist lithograph style. Who’s that guy? He’s a “semi-fictitious
steampunk plantation owner,” of course.
Artist: Kurt Lightner
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