Category: Design Agency of the Year

Hebrides Ensemble is an established chamber music collective renowned for their diverse and imaginative programmes. They recently embarked on a project named ‘The Inner Hebrides’ – creating a series of five short films to showcase a solo performance and personal dialogue of individual musicians. They approached us to develop an identity for the series, with a brief to create a standalone brand that could be used to punctuate the films and their associated marketing. We worked collaboratively with the Ensemble […]

Eye On The Past, Vision For The Future Bringing the Finn Thomson Whisky brand to life required boundary-pushing bottle packaging and manufacture. We worked closely with production partners across both industries to defy expectations and authentically reflect the brand’s unique identity. Finn Thomson’s whisky lineage is at the heart of both the brand and its products, so we wanted to ensure that it was represented in the physical bottle. We created handcrafted typography and monograms inspired by the historical archives, […]

Eye On The Past, Vision For The Future Finn Thomson’s multifaceted family history imbues every element of our design, as typified in the bottle itself. We designed a one-of-a-kind nine-sided bottle to celebrate the nine generations of Thomson whisky. The FT monogram, which unites the initials of all nine family members, sits front and centre. The bottle tapers in at the bottom into the shape of a nonagon sunburst, symbolising the moment when Finn and his father resolved to reignite […]

Eye On The Past, Vision For The Future. Finn Thomson Whisky is a brand that’s new to market but that has been 300 years in the making. Since James Thomson’s illicit potstill in the 1700s, the Thomson family has pursued each element of whisky through the ages – distilling, blending, trading, selling – helping to shape the very story of scotch itself. Now the family cask collection – one of the rarest in Scotland – is being presented to the […]