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 […]
The native garment preview shows four letters and a period: meh. — large, bold, lowercase, white against a dark shirt. No animal illustration. No secondary slogan. No decorative frame. The word sits there at display scale, and the punctuation does the quiet work that the lettering refuses to do. That period is the argument. A […]
The shirt does not say please. It says NOT FRIENDLY in the flat, capitalized register of a hazard placard, then DO NOT TOUCH beneath it, and it sets the whole instruction beside a yellow caution triangle containing a crossed-out hand. The triangle is the part that does the work. A crossed-out hand is not a […]
The first thing the eye finds is the label. A white rectangle, ruled in faint blue, headed in block capitals: COMPOSITION. Inside that ruled field, where a student would normally write a name or a subject, sit two outlined figures — a ghost and a pumpkin. To the left runs a dark binding strip. Around […]
Across the chest, in white capitals, the words I HAD POTENTIAL. Beneath them, a white curved ramp descends from an upper-left ledge to a lower-right flat. At the top of the ramp, where a ball would begin if it were about to roll, there is a dashed empty circle. At the bottom, resting on the […]
The garment preview shows almost nothing at first. A dark shirt, and at the center of the chest, in lowercase letters small enough that you have to lean in to read them, the word meh. with a period. No illustration. No animal. No slogan in a bold sans-serif shouting across the fabric. The scale is […]