Case study · Identity → Content · 2025 – Present

the mushroom brand you can’t scroll past.

Doctor Shrooms make functional-mushroom gummies for the whole family. Working side by side with Kian, we shaped the company brand and how he steps into it as the owner - through vulnerability and a genuine founder's story - leading on strategy, consultancy, creative direction and launch campaigns, then bringing the brand to life with social media content and the Mushroom Minute.

Brand Identity Packaging Content & Video Social

(The brief)

A functional-mushroom gummy for families needs to feel friendly, not clinical. They already had a character with a heartbeat.

Our job was to give that flat image movement, through content and casting.

Client

Doctor Shrooms

Sector

Wellness · Family

Engagement

Full brand build

Year

2025 – Present

Naming & tone Identity study Landing page Mushroom Minute series Social content

The identity

We didn’t draw the logo.
We studied it - then brought it to life.

Doctor Shrooms came to us with a mark they already loved - a smiling red toadstool with a face full of character. Our job wasn’t to redraw it, it was to understand it. We studied everything they had - the red, the cream, the warmth in that smile - until we knew the brand well enough to carry it far beyond a flat, 2D logo.

Doctor Shrooms logo

The palette we studied

Cream
Peach
Blush
Red

From flat to alive: once we understood the palette and the personality behind it, we could give the character real dimension - movement, motion and a voice - without ever losing what made people smile at it in the first place.

How we deliver content

We don’t just design brands.
We give them something to say.

A logo gets you recognised once. Content gets you recognised every week. For Doctor Shrooms we turned the identity into an engine - a repeatable way to script, shoot and ship short video that always sounds like the brand and never like an advert.

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Strategy

One idea per video, mapped to a real family question about mushrooms.

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Script

60 seconds, plain words, a smile in every line - written in the brand’s voice.

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Shoot

Real people, real kitchens. Authentic beats polished for this audience.

04

Motion

Branded captions, the mushroom mascot and pop-on graphics tie every clip together.

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Publish

Cut for Reels, TikTok and the on-site series - one shoot, everywhere it counts.

The flagship

The Mushroom Minute.

Welcome to the Mushroom Minute.

A nine-part series that turns “what does this mushroom actually do?” into a friendly sixty-second answer. One ingredient, one benefit, one minute - the kind of content people finish, remember and send to a friend.

Made start to finish by us. Every film in the series - all nine - was scripted, shot, captioned and edited in-house at Rekognition.

The opener sets the tone for everything that follows - friendly, family-first and never clinical. It’s where the mascot meets the audience and the whole series finds its voice.

A taster in our own words - real kids, real moments, unmistakably Doctor Shrooms.

See the full series

Nine episodes, one voice

EP 01 → 09

EP 01

Welcome to the Mushroom Minute

Meet the doctor.

EP 02

Lion’s Mane · Brain Power

Focus, made friendly.

EP 03

Cordyceps · The Energy Charger

Go, without the crash.

EP 04

Chaga · King of Immunity

The everyday shield.

EP 05

Shiitake · Happy Hearts

Love your ticker.

EP 06

Maitake · The Dancing Mushroom

Balance, in rhythm.

EP 07

Reishi · Sleep & Serenity

Wind-down in a gummy.

EP 08

Agaricus Blazei · The Daily Defender

Quiet, dependable immunity.

EP 09

Ginger & Chamomile · Tummy Tamers

Settle and soothe.

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The power of narration

You don’t always need a camera.
You need a story.

Kian came back to us wanting more content - but this time he wanted to build it from the footage we already had, and getting back in front of the camera just wasn’t easy.

So we changed the approach. We took the B-roll we already had, wrote a script around it and paired it with an AI voice - letting narration carry the film where a shoot couldn’t. No reshoots, no big production. Just one clear idea, told well.

It worked. The film went on to earn over 23,000 views and 569 likes - proof that a strong concept, told with a little creativity, can captivate an audience even when you’re working with almost nothing.

Recognition isn’t about budget. It’s about the story - and the voice you choose to tell it in.

Doctor Shrooms theme-tune artwork
The Doctor Shrooms theme - a sonic signature the whole family hums.

Sonic identity

A brand you can hear.

Recognition isn't only what you see - it's what you hum on the way out. We gave Doctor Shrooms its own theme tune: a short, friendly earworm that ties the mascot, the videos and every scroll-stopping second together. Press play.

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The founder’s story

Every brand starts with a why?

Doctor Shrooms didn’t begin in a boardroom. It began at a kitchen table - a parent looking for a simpler, kinder way to help their family feel their best, and a little boy called Kian at the heart of it.

The founder never wanted to be on camera. He wasn’t sure how to articulate it, let alone script himself - so we told him he didn’t have to. No autocue, no polished advert. We planned the whole thing out for him and kept it deliberately simple: just him, a room and a camera.

Then we did the hard part in the edit - removing every hesitation and false start until what was left was honest, warm and completely cohesive. The mushroom with a heartbeat has a real one behind it.

The response surprised him. That positive feedback gave him the confidence to pick up the camera himself and start creating his own content. That’s the part we’re proudest of: Rekognition isn’t only here to deliver the work - we’re here to encourage the people behind the brand to back themselves and excel.

“We built the brand we wished we’d had - one the whole family could trust.”

Bringing life to your story. Edited and Directed by Rekognition.

Kian’s Story - the founding film, told by the family behind the brand.

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Episodes in the series

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Seconds - the perfect scroll-stopper

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Functional mushrooms, one story

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On-brand, every single cut

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