Top Hat

05/19/2026

Clients: hundreds
Awards: hundreds
Websites: thousands
Designs: tens of thousands+
Beers: millions
Lessons learned: countless

13 years.

04/29/2026

Like the old ladies at your local country club - Caddyshanks got a facelift.

03/27/2026

We’ll blast your ass into outer space.

Say hello to our new capabilities: 3D rendering and animation.

Made and modeled by humans. Not AI.

02/17/2026

Momentum favors the bold.

01/09/2026

Dry January, but make it for beer people.

Latest ad for “Party On” NA.

12/12/2025

You’re only as old as you feel, brother.

𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐝
Athlytic

05/27/2025

Robust services. Unshakeable resolve.

06/23/2023

A million flowers from all corners of Northern New England brought together by a million bees and given to you." Sap House's poetic description of their flagship traditional mead was enough to inspire our aesthetic for the brand.

Lively collages fusing the natural with the manmade give New Hampshire-based Sap House Meadery a distinctive shelf presence. The look marries the approachability of beer with the sophistication of wine, all in a package that doesn't appear to belong in either competing category.

In the quiet space above the lively artwork, Sap House's distinctive dripping "p" wordmark is understated enough to not compete and memorable enough to stand on its own.

Lively, shiny backgrounds adorn the draft mead cans, while textural neutral backgrounds lend sophistication to the bottles.

04/09/2019

Last Friday, our work was honored with Best in Show, 3 Gold Awards for Design Excellence and Judge's Choice at AIGA Pittsburgh's annual design exhibition, PGH365.

Many thanks to AIGA Pittsburgh and this year's judges, and congrats to our fellow designers!

Check out the winning projects:

So, Top Hat walks into a design showcase. See which of our projects won big at AIGA Pittsburgh's 2019 PGH365, and what's on the horizon.

03/28/2019

Before each game, 18,000 Pittsburgh Penguins fans get a look (or a drink) at this vibrant display on the way to their seat at PPG Paints Arena.

We had a blast outfitting Bar 61 with Iron City Beer and I.C. Light, featuring illustrations by Ian George and design by Robert Aaron Baker and Aaron Easler.

, we hope you love it. Grab an Iron the next time you go cheer on the Pens. 🍻

📸: Joseph W. Brown