On a dark shirt, centered, in very small lowercase letters, the word appears: meh. No illustration. No animal. No slogan in a second line. The period is there, and the period is doing most of the work. This is a shirt about scale. The lettering is small enough that a reader has to be close […]
The shirt’s printed text reads, in full: LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW. Around those words sit four smiling root vegetables — a carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion — each drawn with its roots visible in soil. The apostrophe in “LET’S” is printed. The ampersand is printed. The […]
The Mechanism First, the Slogan Second Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue Code is usually described as Congress “closing the carried interest loophole.” That description is wrong in a way that matters for anyone trying to trace where money actually goes. Section 1061 did not end the preferential treatment of fund managers’ compensation. It re-timed […]
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The garment preview shows a dark shirt carrying four lowercase letters in large, bold white type: meh. No illustration, no secondary slogan, no mascot. The word is set at a size that would normally belong to a band name or a team crest, and […]
The shirt does not say shy. It does not say quiet or reserved or please give me a moment. It says NOT FRIENDLY in the flat, declarative register of a hazard placard, sets that phrase above DO NOT TOUCH, and frames the whole instruction with two pieces of regulatory furniture: a yellow caution triangle and […]
Look at the rectangle first. It is black-and-white, speckled like the marbleized cover of a composition book, with a dark binding strip down the left edge. Inside that rectangle sits a white ruled label headed COMPOSITION. Inside the label, an outlined ghost and an outlined pumpkin. The whole thing is printed on a shirt. It […]
The shirt shows four words in white capitals — I HAD POTENTIAL — above a white curved ramp that descends from left to right. At the upper left ledge sits a dashed, empty circle. At the lower right, on a flat ledge, rests a solid white ball. The ramp is curved, not a straight diagonal. […]
On a dark shirt, centered, in letters small enough that a reader has to lean in: meh. Lowercase. A period. No illustration, no animal, no secondary slogan, no exclamation point doing the emotional labor. The native garment preview shows the wordmark at a scale that would be almost illegible across a room, which is the […]
The artwork is a ring of words. LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW runs around four smiling root vegetables — a carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion — each drawn with its roots visible in the soil. The vegetables face inward, or outward, depending on how you read the […]
The Purpose Statement and the Compliance Tests Are Two Different Documents The Internal Revenue Service describes Qualified Opportunity Zones as “an economic development tool—that is, they are designed to spur economic development and job creation in distressed communities” (IRS Opportunity Zones FAQ). That sentence is the program’s public justification. It is not, however, a legal […]