A visit to Scotland’s Kilmartin Glen is one full of history, and within a six-mile radius of the main village, you can find well over 800 ancient monuments, with 150 of them being pre-historic. Visitors can also find a linear cemetery and natural rocks with mysterious cup and ring marks thought made 5,000 years ago.
Those same rock carvings inspired the bottle design for Kilmartin Gin. Kilmartin Glen and its pre-historic trappings are integral to the brand world created by the Scottish agency My Creative. Not only because the distillery hand-forages the botanicals used in its gin from the surrounding glen, but also because they have borrowed elements and details from this culturally-significant location.
We spoke with the designer and founder of My Creative, Ewan Leckie, about his studio’s work on Kilmartin and creating a historically inspired bottle that can have a second life.
