Oxide Design Co.

Oxide t-shirts: Collaboration

You may have read a recent post on our News site about what we at Oxide think makes the perfect t-shirt. When we set out to make a set of Oxide t-shirts, there were only a couple of guidelines. Each member of the team would:

1. Make a shirt you’d actually want to wear.
2. Relate it to Oxide in some fashion.

I wanted to create a whimsical shirt that captured the thought process of Oxide. This shirt is an illustration of the collaborative creative process at our office. There are three figures to show the core Oxide team of Drew, Joe, and Adam.

These figures don’t specifically represent any one of us. But they do symbolize that our collective output is often two thirds from the brain (one directly and one through a more circuitous route) and one third from the heart. (And that, yes, our ideas do occasionally spew forth uncontrollably.) Together, they combine to make Oxide.

It’s also worth noting that there’s a story of patience in this latest set of Oxide T-shirts. In the month before I started Oxide, I was on a trip with my wife to Malta. While there, I bought a t-shirt from a dive gear company that had a great custom tag sewn onto the sleeve. It looked awesome, and I thought “I’m going to do that for my own t-shirts one day.” While it’s been discussed on various occasions over the years here at Oxide, this is the first set of t-shirts we’ve ever made that sport a custom Oxide tag on the sleeve. Eight years later.

Like the shirt (or the tag)? You’re in luck: they’re for sale.