Author: Carmen Burke
The Composition Notebook Shirt: A Printed Cover, a Ghost, and a Pumpkin
On a black-and-white speckled rectangle, a dark binding strip runs down the left edge. Inside a white ruled label headed COMPOSITION, an outlined ghost and pumpkin sit together. The garment is a print... Read More
The Dashed Circle and the Solid Ball: Reading the ‘I Had Potential’ Shirt as a Physics Diagram
The first thing the shirt does is refuse to be a straight line. The printed artwork reads I HAD POTENTIAL in white capitals, and below it sits a curved ramp descending from left to right. On the upper... Read More
The Smallest Possible Joke: Reading the Lowercase ‘meh.’ on a Dark Shirt
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The garment preview shows a dark shirt with very small, centered lowercase lettering: meh. No animal. No flag. No distress... Read More