What’s the difference between a map of a place and the place itself? The map is a lot easier to fit into your glove compartment. Does mapping a purely notional place make that place, in some sense, “real”? Yes, if you ask a D&D player. What aspects of an actual experience of a city are obscured when the city is abstracted into a map? Dog poop, mostly. Is it easier to think up wise-ass throwaway gags than to seriously grapple with the ideas behind a t-shirt design? Always.

This shirt design was by: Lucas Monaco, who tells us that his “recent work intertwines ideas of mapping and visualizing a place”, citing the map as “an example of an abstracted, utilitarian tool meant to be read that easily translated into a picture – something to be viewed.” Sounds interesting, but with a name like that, he’s missing his true calling as an international secret agent.

Wear this shirt: because it’s only our second side-seam print, and you want to be as unique as the thousand or more other people who will buy it.

Don’t wear this shirt: as a substitute for an actual map of wherever you are. It’s probably not that accurate.

This shirt tells the world: “I don’t wear anything unless it’s GPS-enabled.”

We call this color: Heather Gray = 1000 ft.

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