Brew Blog

Once again, Brew is doing our part to support the Ivey Awards: The celebration of Twin Cities theater that will take place at the State Theater in September. It’s one of the few true red carpet events in Minnesota (not that we’re the red carpet types). This year we’re continuing the theme we began last year: The juxtaposition of the elegant Ivey award winners on the red carpet against a backdrop of iconic Minnesota locations. Featured here is Dudley Riggs, the grandfather of Minnesota comedy theater and last year’s lifetime achievement award winner. Again, it was a collaboration between Brew and photographers William Clark (the portraits) and Lucas Saugen (the environments). Lucas artfully pieced the two images together. The images will be used in magazine advertising, outdoor, posters and will again be the theme for the event. Speaking of William, he will be co-directing a very cool video/commercial for a very cool car brand that we’ll be producing in August. Stay tuned for that and more Ivey’s executions.

Yes, we know it’s a cheap laugh, but we never grow tired of dressing up the office dogs in costumes, especially to celebrate important Holidays. At least Ginger and Lola enjoy eating the bribe that comes their way after our photo sessions end. In other news here at Brew we’re busy working on projects for Edwards and Mrs. Smith’s desserts, Edun clothing, Chi Lake Liquors, and more. We plan to begin work on a new website for Neve soon.

We just returned from a big production in Los Angeles for Edward’s Desserts. We recreated the look and feel of the Oscar’s, with the help of a large cast of extras and the historical Orpheum Theater. Fittingly, we had Oscar-nominated production designer Kevin Kavanaugh and feature film director Peter Chelsom to help us create the illusion. Now we have several weeks of special effects work to bring it all together.