Category: The Narrative
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Most popular designs of February 2026
I was checking out the stats from the shop to see what were the most popular shirts in the store. As in January, most of the top shirts had a hand-drawn element to them. Tho the line up this month was slightly different from January. I think part of this was due to an ad…
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Celebrating women inventors on International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is celebrated on 08 March. In honor of the day, I want to share the story behind my “Women Inventors” section of my store. Same old storyWhen I started my store, I wanted to do shirts with famous quotes cheekily remixed for makers. For example, Descartes’ famous “I think, therefore I am”…
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How Creative Commons powers my designs
I remember the early days of Creative Commons. Such a subversive idea to make copyright so nuanced and so easily used. To me, the heart of it is all the folks who put their materials online for others to use. Fast forward 25 years later and I turned to CC-licensed works for many of my…
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I did a thing: Expressive t-shirts for makers and hackers
I’m the great-grandson of a haberdasher, as I keep telling my wife. And my mother is an obsessive maker – she used to have her own children’s clothing line and has quilted, crocheted, knitted, and sewed her way thru the past many decades (and still at it daily at 91!). Only in the past few…