Richard Hatter and Leif Miltenberger, Photograph by Sean Fenzl
Hired Guns Creative is a hot upcoming studio whom we have featured many projects from. Located on Vancouver Island, they provide branding, design, and marketing services to wineries, breweries, and distilleries – headed by Richard Hatter, who provides all of the design and creative work, and Leif Miltenberger, who runs the business side of the company. Together their mission is to help their clients sell more alcohol. Every creative decision they make, every design that comes out of their shop is centered around answering that one specific business challenge.
“Our studio began as a generalist design studio in 2008. We worked on many types of projects for many types of clients in those early years before deciding to target the British Columbia wine industry. An established winery on Vancouver Island gave us our first shot at branding and packaging design for the alcohol industry (more on that project later.) The success of that initial winery project led to other winery projects, which in turn helped open the doors to projects for craft breweries and distilleries.
