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Need help with your stubby holder design?
No worries, at Coolaz we are looking to build our porfolio of designs so for a short while we are offering our customers design help for FREE! We are not just talking about dropping in some crummy clip art either, we do not think that will help you - or us - at all. We'll put in a good effort to make sure everyone is happy.
Things that can make it easier for us:
Ideas of colours, fonts you like (even rough descriptions like, formal, ornate, modern, funky etc.) and any imagery you want like to see - and you don't have to have a photo necessarily.
This Orchid design was put together especially for one of our customers recently.
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What is a stubby holder?
Quite simply a stubby holder is a sleeve or cylinder designed to insulate a beverage, in its vessel, from external sources of heat. Stubby holders are called stubby holders in Australia due the term 'stubby' being used to describe a 375ml bottle of beer. Stubby - because they are typically shorter and fatter then other bottles like 330ml export beers. Outside of Australia stubby holders are known as can coolers, coolers,and in the US as Koozies® which is a brand name.
A brief history of can coolers / stubby holders / Koozies
It the dark, old early 1980's, when clothes were big and bright and music was generated by black boxes called synthesizers, the polystyrene foam cooler was king. Pre-foamed into shape, it was large and cumbersome. On top of that, it wasn't very good at keeping beer cold either (probably because the bottle was not tightly held).
In the middle of the eighties though, at least one company claims to have brought in the first neoprene cooler from the US (where they are called Koozies (which is a brand name)) and changed the market overnight at the 1983-84 ashes series. Since those first few flew off the shelf, neoprene coolers or stubby holders (derived from the name given to 375ml bottles of beer here in Australia) have ruled the roost when it comes to keeping beer cold.
Today stubby holders are available in all shapes and sizes, but the basic materials have not changed until now. Therefore pretty much every derivation and iteration of the original stubby holder since it hit the market has been limited in its performance and quality by the fabric coated black neoprene and the printing techniques they require.
Coolaz wrap coolers might change things yet again...
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From 250ml small cans to quite possibly a wrap to fit your fridge! The Coolaz manufacturing process is VERY flexible. [ › › › ]
Standard rectangle for bottles and cans to truncated cones for beakers. Coolaz coolers can be diecut to any shape as well as having holes and rebates designed into them. [ › › › ]
Up to thirteen striking, densely coloured foam types available. [ › › › ]
Silver or white label stocks give a huge variety of design opportunities. Gloss, slik and matt finishes increase this further still. [ › › › ]
Coolers that are tickets or momentos - the quality print and flat format opens up new opportunities for interacting with your market. [ › › › ]
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