Reclaiming Rocky Mountain Refreshment

 Brand Packaging Redesign

Visual Identity • Packaging • Brand Standards • Merchandise

As sessionable hard seltzers surged into the category, Coors Light faced a critical challenge: defend its position as the icon of cold refreshment without losing the heritage that made it the nation’s No. 2 beer. The opportunity wasn’t reinvention, it was amplification.

Our redesign sharpened the brand’s Rocky Mountain DNA, transforming its most recognizable assets into a more powerful, modern system. Brighter skies, a deeper alpine valley, and a refined mountain mark created a visual language that feels crisp, optimistic, and unmistakably Coors Light. The iconic Coors script remained, but the landscape expanded, adding scale, depth, and drama that billboard across every secondary pack. Anchored in the brand’s “Made to Chill” platform, the mountains became more than scenery, they became a visual invitation to escape everyday pressure. By evolving, not replacing, its distinctive assets, the redesign strengthened recognition while reigniting relevance. The result: a colder, bolder package that reasserts Coors Light as the category’s definitive symbol of chill.

Results

Light grew 6.0% in off premise in 2020.

Multiple Coors Light beer bottles and cans with snow and ice, set against a mountainous, snowy background.
Two boxes of Coors Light beer, one with a white background and the other with a blue background, both featuring mountain imagery and the Coors logo.
A Coca-Cola can with condensation, featuring a mountain in the background, and part of a Coca-Cola logo in blue text on a light blue background.
A smiling young man and woman with two dogs, standing in front of a decorated Christmas tree. The woman has long blonde hair, and the man has curly hair. Both are dressed in winter jackets. The right side of the image shows a close-up of a glass of beer with the logo 'Coors Light' and a white coaster with the same logo, placed on a white surface.
Split image with neon sign on the left reading 'Coors Light' with mountain graphic, and on the right, a person wearing a silver jacket and black shirt, holding open the jacket to reveal a pattern-lined inner lining and a Coors Light logo on the inside.