Creative Direction and Design

Best New Bartenders 2025 feature showing three bartenders mixing drinks, presented by Astral Tequila.

Punch’s Best New Bars 2025

Role: Creative Direction, website build, Photography, Photo Production and Photo editing

The 2025 edition of Punch’s Best New Bartenders, a key editorial franchise sponsored by Astral Tequila, rolled out as an event series as well as an online package, culminating with an event showcasing fresh talent at Tales of the Cocktail.

As creative director, I assigned and oversaw logo design for event collateral, as well as the website build. In addition, I supplied or assigned original photography across 10 cities, built the package in Ceros and designed all on-site assets, including menus, coasters and signage.

Bartender pouring gin into a jigger over a cocktail at a stylish brick-walled bar.
Smiling woman holding a PUNCH tote bag and smartphone inside a brewery or event venue.
Magazine feature on New York bartender Capucine Prager, shown making a cocktail, with a La Pícara tequila cocktail photo and biography text.
Two men talk at a lively indoor event, with one wearing a blue jacket over a Best New Bartenders T-shirt.
Bartender in a blue shirt reading “Best New Bartender 2025” while working at a busy restaurant bar