Excellence in Branding. North Uist Distillery.

We came in to the very happy news this morning that our friends at North Uist Distillery cleaned up at the Scottish Gin Awards last night - taking home the big one, Scottish Distillery of the Year, for the third year running. An incredible achievement which is very well deserved. 

The team also took away the title for Excellence in Branding, something that we were of course pleased to hear. 

Working with the distillery team from the very early stages, it's been such a great journey to embark upon, with Jamhot involved in all of the design output from the distillery from campaigns to gin filled christmas crackers. But it's the custom bottle design that remains the thing we're most proud of - and seeing them sitting pride of place on our studio shelves is our daily reminder of the power of simple ideas, clarity of execution, and strength of design & words working in harmony with each other - something that we try to embrace in all of the work that passes through our doors. 

As a studio, we've never submitted our own work for awards, it's just not something that interests us at all. We've always been much more interested in looking to the future and getting our teeth into the next project. But seeing the work we do winning awards for our clients and helping them grow their business, that's a very special kind of recognition - and something that means a lot to us. So we might have a wee gin this weekend to toast the distillery, it would be rude not to.