The winners of this year’s famous Colored by INX Can design contest have been announced. Specifically, Shiner Beer and Ball Corporation were recognized as resounding winners of the fourth annual Colored by INX Can Design Contest. The award was endorsed by the design for the Shiner Texhex Bruja Brew IPA, which stood out as the best choice of the five finalist entries submitted to the competition. Voting was conducted by a large independent panel of experts and the public via INX International’s Facebook and LinkedIn social media pages.
Other finalists were Ballast Point Brewery, Hazy Sculpin India Pale Ale presented by Ball Corporation; Lagunitas Brewing Company, Island Beats Tropical IPA presented by Lagunitas; Miller Brewery, Miller Lite Grill presented by Ball Corporation; and Ruby’s Revenge Imperial Grapefruit IPA from Great Lakes Brewing Company, the Cleveland-based craft brewery that had won the competition the previous two years.
“The design’s colors and complex graphics, combined with Ball Corporation’s EYERIS color separation technology, presented an exceptional design with outstanding visual impact.”
Levi Boss, director of Ball Corporation’s Graphics Center of Excellence, said, “The design colors and complex graphics, combined with Ball Corporation’s EYERIS color separation technology, delivered an exceptional design with outstanding visual impact. “Capturing the luminescence of the metallic substrate, the complement of inks side-by-side in sample form, and then rendered on the production can showed INX’s unparalleled understanding of printing on aluminum through the dry offset process,” continued Boss. “This particular design series is so striking because of the depth of opacity of the dark outline colors, and it radiates quite a bit in the lighter image areas.”
Renee Schouten, vice president of marketing for INX, which administers the competition, added that.
“we are very pleased with the number of votes received through Facebook and LinkedIn.”
