Tare · Dickson, TN Workshop & previews · MMXXVI

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A single place for design previews, brand explorations, layout tests, and anything else that needs to be looked at before it becomes real. Click any card below to open that worksheet in a new tab. Bookmark this page.

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May 282026
Brand exploration · Round 9 · Clear & scannable

Fifty clear mushroom signs

Reset back to clarity. Every sign must let a customer learn what the product is, what's in it, and how to use it in 5 to 15 seconds. Fifty different visual treatments — palette, typography, card system, accent — all serving the same readable hierarchy.

50 specimens
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May 282026
Brand exploration · Round 8 · Reinvented IA

Same content, fifty signs

Reinvented information architecture, not chrome. Mitchell's call: stop dressing up the same layout and actually rebuild the sign fifty different ways. Same nine facts about the mushroom tincture — fifty different ways to organize, present, and stage them. Narrative, diagrammatic, structured, object-as-sign, and typographic experiments.

50 specimens
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May 282026
Brand exploration · Round 7 · Rustic + vintage reset

Fifty rustic + vintage signs

Reset — broadening the aesthetic palette into proper rustic and vintage wells. Mushroom tincture sign rendered fifty ways across five groups: Apothecary & patent medicine, General store & mercantile, Farm & field, Vintage botanical, and the tarebulkfoods.com site DNA at sign scale. Aged paper, sepia ink, real period typography.

50 specimens
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May 282026
Brand exploration · Round 6 · Editorial voice

Eight editorial moves

Keeps Tare's brand DNA intact (Fraunces, DM Mono, Georgia, green/cream/rust, Style D icons) and reorganizes the body. Each variant pushes a single distinctive editorial move: bin number hero, pull-quote lede, asymmetric spread, almanac masthead, footnoted prose, marginalia, oversized numerals, diagonal stamp.

8 specimens
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May 282026
Brand exploration · Round 5 · Mix

06c × 01b · twin rules + tile perimeter

Mitchell's requested blend: 06c's restrained twin green rules around the content, 01b's perimeter tile border holding the page — executed in Tare's actual brand fonts (Fraunces / DM Mono / Georgia). Two close calibrations to pick from.

2 specimens
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May 282026
Brand exploration · Round 4 · Signage scale

Mushroom tincture sign · twelve treatments

Round 3 picks (01 Tile-Bordered Almanac, 03 Sampler-Edged Broadside, 04 Quilt-Mast Newspaper, 06 Restrained Almanac) iterated three ways each, applied to the real mushroom tincture info sign from the Documents printables. Real content, real density, sign-scale tiles.

12 specimens
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May 282026
Brand exploration · Round 3

Almanac + framed-tile system

Nine specimens iterating on Mitchell's flagged directions (31, 35, 43, 44, 55, 56, 61, 65) — printed-page type discipline meets framed-centerpiece pattern, anchored to the Style D almanac icons.

9 specimens
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