2021 Capsule Wave 03: Flag T-Shirt

100% Cotton T-Shirt in Black. Hand-screened in HB Volt + White. Wave 03; 2021 Capsule Collection   In celebration of my bringing a long-time vision to life last Wave, I (guess I) decided to slave over design details and doodads for this wave. The good news: the printing aspect of this process is getting more familiar to me. I’ve got a bit more control at the press and can see a bit more clearly into the future from my mind’s eye while in design. The other news: I really really threw myself into this project. My initial concept was to create a series of sigils and ideograms that could start to weave together to make a kind of ‘national’-level vocabulary. Like our American vocabulary. As in: who decided on eagles and olive branches and arrows and such? The entire Arcane Sigil (over 7 years and running) project has ultimately been about this vocabulary-constructing process. It’s…really mysterious and liberating and terrifying. My original thinking was a flag that included symb