Collection № 01 · 10 designs

You had to be there

Ten original designs about the last analog childhood — streetlight curfews, one phone line, Friday rentals and mix CDs burned at 74%. Distressed screen prints, vintage halftones, faded inks. No borrowed logos, no novelty-shop jokes.

BlackWashed CharcoalCreamFaded NavyForestVintage White
You Had To Be ThereDistressed screen printFaded inksOriginal artwork onlySizes S–3XLYou Had To Be ThereDistressed screen printFaded inksOriginal artwork onlySizes S–3XL
Black t-shirt with a faded print of a suburban street at sunset, bikes on the lawn and a streetlight switching on01Vintage Black

Be Home When The Streetlights Come On

Summer 1996

The only curfew that ever mattered, printed on a sunset cul-de-sac.

Washed charcoal t-shirt printed with a beige desktop computer showing CONNECTING and a dial-up modem02Washed Charcoal

Mom! Get Off The Phone!

The Dial-Up Generation

One phone line, one modem, and a house-wide negotiation every single night.

Cream t-shirt with a small line-drawn CRT television reading NO SIGNAL beside a plain wired controller03Vintage Cream

Channel 3

Where the console lived. Minimal print for people who still remember the static.

Faded navy t-shirt printed with a CRT television, a bowl of cereal and a folded blanket04Faded Navy

Saturday Morning

8:00 AM • Don't Bother Me

Cereal, blanket, glowing tube TV — the original appointment viewing.

Forest green t-shirt printed with a fictional video rental receipt and a blank VHS cassette05Forest

Friday Night Video Rental

1 Movie • 1 Game • Candy • Late Fee

A fictional receipt for the best four dollars anyone ever spent.

Vintage white t-shirt printed with a row of beige CRT computers on a long lab table06Vintage White

The Computer Lab

Please Wait For The Internet

A row of beige machines, one shared connection, forty-five minutes of patience.

Black t-shirt printed with a retro software progress window reading TRACK 11 OF 16 and a blank CD-R07Vintage Black

Burning You A CD

Track 11 Of 16 • 74% Complete

The highest form of affection available in the early 2000s.

Washed charcoal t-shirt printed with an open early-2000s flip phone showing 9:00 PM08Washed Charcoal

Call Me After 9

Free Nights And Weekends

Minutes were precious. Feelings waited until the rate dropped.

Cream t-shirt printed with several kids' bikes dropped on the lawn of a plain suburban house09Vintage Cream

The Original Group Chat

You Knew Where Everyone Was

Five bikes on one lawn was the whole notification system.

Faded navy t-shirt printed with a grid of retro objects: VHS tape, cassette, floppy disk, CD-R, pager, CRT TV, disposable camera and flip phone10Faded Navy

Analog Childhood • Digital Adulthood

Every object that raised us, laid out like a museum case.

Capsule № 02 · 6 designs

Download Era

Six designs from the early-2000s download years — four-hour transfers, mislabeled mp3s, handwritten discs and one very optimistic antivirus. Original wording and artwork only.

Black t-shirt printed with a generic retro download window at 100 percent, a long mp3 filename and a ticked box reading definitely a virus01Vintage Black

Download Complete

1 Of 1 Files • 4 Hours 12 Minutes

Four hours of waiting for a file that was almost certainly a virus.

Washed charcoal hoodie printed with a yellow warning plate, a triangle and floppy disk icon and caution stripes02Washed Charcoal

Download At Your Own Risk

No Refunds • No Antivirus

A warning nobody read, on the heaviest hoodie in the capsule.

Faded navy crewneck with collegiate arched lettering over a crest of a modem and coiled phone cord framed by a laurel03Faded Navy

56K Download Club

Est. 2001 • Patience Required

Varsity colors for the slowest sport ever played at home.

Cream t-shirt printed with bold type reading wrong song great album above a plain retro file info window04Vintage Cream

Wrong Song. Great Album.

File: track_04_probably.mp3

Every mislabeled file eventually became somebody's favorite band.

Forest green t-shirt printed with a labeled diagram of two beige computers connected by an orange cable05Forest

Peer To Peer

Two Modems • One Bad Idea

A technical diagram of the first social network: two computers and a cable.

Vintage white hoodie printed with a blank CD-R covered in handwritten marker lettering and the words summer 200206Vintage White

I Got This Song Off The Internet

Summer 2002

A blank disc, a marker, and the proudest sentence of the decade.

Capsule № 03 · 5 designs

Before We Had Phones

Five designs about finding your friends before anyone had a phone in their pocket — knocking on doors, bikes dropped on the lawn, one family line and a download that held the whole house hostage.

Washed charcoal t-shirt printed with faded cream and teal lettering above three children's bikes fallen on the lawn of a plain suburban house01Washed Charcoal

If The Bikes Were Out Front, We Were Home

No location sharing required — the lawn told you everything.

Vintage white t-shirt printed with bold red lettering reading knock knock is your friend home above a suburban front door and a bike dropped on the walkway02Vintage White

Knock Knock

Is Your Friend Home?

The original notification: your knuckles on somebody's screen door.

Forest green t-shirt with arched varsity lettering reading meet me outside above a small sun setting over a street corner03Forest

Meet Me Outside

4 O'Clock · You Know Where

A plan made once, in person, and somehow never missed.

Cream t-shirt printed with a faded red corded telephone, a long coiled cord spiralling down the side and bold lettering reading busy signal04Vintage Cream

Busy Signal

One line for the whole house, and somebody was always on it.

Washed charcoal hoodie printed in muted gold with please don't pick up the phone above a blocky progress bar framed by a coiled phone cord05Washed Charcoal

Please Don't Pick Up The Phone

3 Hours Remaining

The whole family put on hold for one file that might not finish.

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