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Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The first thing I noticed on the I Had Potential shirt was not the words. It was the dashed circle. In the retail garment image, the phrase I HAD POTENTIAL sits in white capitals above a white curved ramp. At the upper left ledge …
There is a white rounded banner at the top of the print, with a small bell icon at its left edge. The banner reads, in plain sentence case: There is motion at your front door. Below it, inside a circular frame tinted green, an orange tabby stares directly into the lens, so close that its …
The first thing I noticed on the Not Friendly Do Not Touch shirt was not the words. It was the yellow triangle. A caution triangle is a piece of industrial grammar: it means hazard ahead, adjust your behavior. On this shirt, the hazard is a person. The crossed-out hand underneath makes the instruction explicit. The …
The native garment preview shows four characters: meh. — lowercase, bold, white, set large on a dark shirt. The period is part of the artwork. There is no animal, no illustration, no secondary line of copy. Just the word and the full stop. That period is the whole argument. A word that means I can’t …
The first thing you notice about the meh shirt is how little there is to notice. The native garment preview shows very small, centered lowercase meh. lettering on a dark shirt. No animal illustration. No pride variant. No secondary slogan. Just four characters and a period, set at a scale that asks you to lean …
Look at the tiles before you read the sentence. The shirt reads I WEAR THIS SHIRT PERIODICALLY, and beneath that line sit four periodic-table-style tiles: 53 I, 74 W, 22 Ti, 16 S. The symbols are I, W, Ti, S. Say them aloud and you get “I wear this shirt periodically” only if you already …