I’ve always been passionate about both history and design. After Prohibition ended, breweries popped up all over the country, but over the decades many of these independents closed and their beautiful old logos were at risk of being lost forever. So I started a project to save them: hunting down original bottle caps and coasters, then meticulously recreating each logo as clean vector art and giving it new life on t-shirts, stickers, and coasters.

A revived collection

Each badge was rebuilt from the original artifact, faithful to the 1930s craft but redrawn so it can live at any size, from a coaster to a screen print to a looping animation.

Off the screen, onto cotton

Redrawing the logos was only ever half the goal. The point was to put them back into the world: printed, folded, and worn. Each rescued badge became a tee, the vector art landing back on fabric the way it first lived on a bottle.

Reflection

This one is pure love of the craft: a reminder that good design is worth preserving, and that redrawing something old as a clean, scalable vector is its own kind of restoration, keeping a small piece of history alive and usable.