Mezcalómano
Mezcalómano AI Card Art, Agave Directory and Website
Product Owner and Builder of Mezcalómano: an AI-illustrated deck of 40 agave cards, an agave directory with a Mexico map, and the brand website.
- Role
- Product Owner and Builder
- Agency
- Independent
- Client
- Mezcalómano
- Year
- 2026
- Location
- London, UK
- Built with
- Cursor, Claude, SDXL, ControlNet, LoRA, Next.js, Vercel
What was the brief?
Mezcalómano is a mezcal brand built around a Discovery Deck of 40 playing cards, one for each agave species. It needed consistent illustrations for every card, a way to explore the species, and a website to sell the deck.
Scale and constraints
- 40 agave species, one per card
- Several AI illustration styles explored before the final deck
What was Kimber responsible for?
- Designed and built every part with Cursor and Claude
- Built the AI image pipeline and art directed the card illustrations
- Built the website, directory and map
Technical and production highlights
- A batch style transfer pipeline using SDXL, ControlNet and a custom LoRA to turn 40 photos into one illustrated card style
- An agave species directory with an interactive map of Mexico
- A US liquor store database built from free map data for a stockist map
- A mobile-first brand website on Vercel
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