On a very long road trip not long ago, I had a country-road, red-barn-inspired flashback of a logo contest I entered years and years ago. The client was Carolina Barn Dance, a regular event at the Carolina Theatre in Spruce Pine, N.C. CBD was ramping back up activities after a few decades of nothin'.And almost a decade after I sent in my original entry, I decided to revisit this logo design because I just wasn't quite able to realize my vision the first time around.This time is much closer…Here's the first phase.

with texture