#five wits

To Wit

Designs for Five Wits Brewery

In 2019 Nathan Michaels, Elliott Kehoe, Brian Harris and Mike & Taylor Monen launched a new brewery: Five Wits. The team brought brewing know-how from Colorado to add to the growing craft-brewing scene in Chattanooga.

The Five Wits identity and original packaging designs were created by Charleston designer Gil Shuler. But as the brewery opened in late 2019 and marketing needs grew, Five Wits turned to help from the local designers at Widgets & Stone.

Widgets & Stone built and expanded on the lively design styles Shuler established, then supplied much needed materials like sales sheets, product photography, web design, vehicle wraps and concept art.

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All in the Family

Monen Family Restaurant Group’s family of web sites

The Monen Family Restaurant Group owns ten restaurants and one brewery. Having grown organically over the years, the company had many different web sites on many different web platforms. As they launched their newest endeavor, Market South, a “food hall” with four restaurants, a café and a brewery, they wanted to create separate web sites for each entity.

Widgets & Stone created a structure to unify all the sites while still allowing each brand to have its own look and feel. Having designed many of the identities as well, the Widgets team was able to quickly translate them to responsive web designs.

The results are a family of web sites that celebrate unity in diversity. Visit Market-South.com for links to all the various sites.

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From: Everyman

Genre: Morality

Topic: Religion

Character: Neutral

From: Everyman

Genre: Morality

Topic: God, power, forgiveness

Character: Neutral

Warming his five wits…..

Long eared owl I have been meaning to do this long eared owl for a long time. I have practically have a sketch book full of variations on this design. In Roman and celtic mythology owls are associated with wisdom. But they are also associated with the darker aspects of our psyche, This is probably because the are nocturnal. The hoot of an owl late at night in a deep dark wood in 100 B.C would…

and a dude asked my friend/roomie/coworker 'where the male wigs' were. My friend deflected him to me because I have strong opinions about it. 

"Sir, any of these wigs is a male's wig if it is on your head. As they are inanimate objects, they have no inherent gender."

He looked at me for a moment, so I asked what color and style he was looking for - he got a mid-length black wig used for Mikasa from Attack on Titan (and Snape, to be fair). 

I always want to remind people that they are playing dress up with hair that is not theirs, and that hair is not a dude or chick hair, especially in anime.