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 […]
The shirt does not say grow together. It says root for each other and then, as a second clause, watch each other grow. The wording is arranged in a ring around four smiling root vegetables — carrot, radish, beet, onion — each drawn with its taproot visible in the soil. The design is cheerful, and […]
The native garment preview shows a dark shirt carrying large, bold, white lowercase lettering: meh. The period is there, and it matters. There is no animal illustration, no secondary slogan, no decorative frame. The word sits alone, set at a scale that would be legible across a room, in a typeface that looks like it […]
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The shirt reads NOT FRIENDLY DO NOT TOUCH in the flat, declarative register of a warning label. Above the words sits a yellow caution triangle. Inside the triangle, a hand is crossed out with a diagonal slash. The design does not ask a question, […]
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The design is a rectangle. That is the first thing to notice, and it is not a trivial observation. On the shirt, a black-and-white speckled field fills most of the front panel, bounded on the left by a dark vertical strip that reads as […]
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. On a white shirt, the words I HAD POTENTIAL sit in capital letters above a curved ramp. A dashed circle rests on the upper left ledge. A solid ball sits on the lower right flat ledge. The ramp descends from left to right, and […]
On any business day, between 12:45 and 1:15 p.m. Eastern, the Open Market Trading Desk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York runs an auction. It sells Treasury securities from the System Open Market Account and agrees to buy them back the next morning. The difference between the sale price and the repurchase price […]
The garment preview shows a dark shirt. Centered on it, in very small lowercase letters, is the word meh, followed by a period. No animal. No slogan. No flag. No second line of text. The scale is the argument: the word is set small enough that a reader has to lean in, and the period […]
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The artwork on the Let’s Root For Each Other And Watch Each Other Grow Garden shirt arranges its words in a ring. LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW runs around four smiling root vegetables — a carrot, a radish, a […]
There is a sentence in the Federal Reserve Act that is easy to read past. It sits in Section 4, paragraph 11, and it says that the three Class B directors of each Federal Reserve Bank “shall represent the public.” The same paragraph says they “shall be elected” — and the election, under paragraph 16, […]