I’m Jonny Mowat & this is my stuff.
Filmmaking & Animation
- The Organist
- Two Robbers Spirits Co.
- Two Robbers Fishtown
- Jordan Phillips
- Cake Stuff
- Onion Bags
- The Sweetheart Revue
- Haps
- Replicants
Illustration & Design
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Be wary of strangers, lest they be robbers in disguise.
Two Robbers Spirits Co. (formerly Two Robbers Seltzer Co.) is an illustration-led beverage company based in Philadelphia, PA. When working as art director, I was responsible for all packaging, merch, web graphics, sales materials, the works! Thankfully, a lot of this involved illustration as well as design, so there are a tonne of things we did that should have been boring but were really fun. Here’s a selection.
2024 saw the launch of ‘Two Robbers 2.0’, changing the recipe from hard seltzer to winter wheat vodka + fruited soda water. Each can had an illustration full of living, breathing characters either obstructing or aiding the skeletal robbers in their ventures.
I’ve worked on a whole bunch of different product lines across The Seltzer Space™, from foamy nitro hard coffee, to briney seltzers with Grillo’s Pickles. I thoroughly enjoyed working end to end on these products, branding them, creating their character(s), laying out the packaging, all the way through to marketing. We even made some beers.
We love merch, so we made a lot. It was sold online and in the Two Robbers Fishtown retail space, made from high quality blanks built to last. We followed this brief: “beverage company merch that was wearable by non-staff members”. I think we hit it.
One of my favourite projects was commissioning comics to go with each ‘chapter’ of new flavours 2R produced. We worked with Stephen Graham, Wren Mcdonald, and Dick Carroll, on 3 full-colour comics that were available to pick up from Two Robbers newspaper stands in the streets of New York and Philly, and were later collated into a softcover zine that was sold at the taproom, designed by meself.
Last but not least, I give you a sign (neon).
Additional photography courtesy of Ian Loring Shiver, Pawel Bednarski, and Amir Sali Berry.