MIAD Tap Handle Project

This past month, our Art Director Cole Krueger had the privilege of returning to his Alma Mater, The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design to work with Junior Product Design Majors on collaborative tap handles design project between us, the school, and our client Third Space Brewing.

After graduating with a BFA in Illustration from MIAD in 2007, Cole had always wanted an opportunity to return as a professional and work with students at the college on a tap handle project. So when Larry Murphy, a Product Design faculty member reached out to Cole over the summer about the opportunity, he couldn’t wait to dive in and immediately thought of reaching out to one of our best local clients, Third Space Brewing, about partnering with us on the project.

Third Space was enthusiastic about working with local students on a project and the students began working on concepts for tap handles for their flagship Happy Place brand, as well as their charitable “Pints with a Purpose” program.

Seeing the students excitement about this unique project and their well thought-out and impactful design work was a real treat! We want to thank MIAD for having us and Third Space Brewing employees Paul Mott and Lizzie Katt for being so accommodating and giving such great feedback. We hope to collab with MIAD again in the future!

Click the link below to read MIAD's web story about the project

https://www.miad.edu/product-design-students-design-custom-tap-handles

Black is Beautiful

In this Audio Only Podcast we sit down with Josh and Nick, two of our sales representatives. They told us about their trip to The National Black Brewers Association, more information about Black is Beautiful, and what it takes to be successful in the beer industry.

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"For Nick & I, to be part of the NB2A was a no-brainer, it is about inclusion and true partnership to move not only the Black brewing community forward, and the entire industry as a whole along with it.  Being part of a group that provides a network of resources to Black brewers to ensure they are given the opportunity to thrive from the jump.  The sharing of resources, the mentoring, the training, and all of the other countless benefits of working as a cohesive group is what makes any organization great and the NB2A is exactly that.  To ensure Nick & are moving the needle forward and providing a benefit and helpful resource to further empower the NB2A and its members, we made the decision to donate the tap handle for the Black is Beautiful Vol. 2 beer and movement.  The beer is the vessel for the movement, and to be part of it is humbling.  We wanted to ensure that every dollar that could go towards benefiting NB2A and its members, does.  Knowing that we are helping support countless breweries and breweries in planning simple is a great feeling." - Josh Ursprung 

Art On Tap - Insight Magazine Article

Our President along side a few other of our employees sat down with Kate Bruns from Insight Magazine to discuss how Hankscraft AJS handles business in the handle business.

Click the link below to read the full article!

https://www.insightonbusiness.com/eedition/page-01/page_0c49c73b-7d01-51e1-ba49-6b1366eb0cc7.html