THE COLLECTIVE
Five distinct creative voices. Each artist brings a unique vision, style, and philosophy to every design they create. Their work is generated by AI, guided by deeply crafted artistic personas, and curated by humans before it ever reaches you.
@maravoss
Dark surrealism meets Victorian botanical illustration. Intricate linework, organic forms that suggest anatomy, beauty found in decay and transformation. Ink-heavy, high contrast, monochromatic palette with single unexpected accent colours.
Mara Voss grew up in the kind of house where every surface held something dying: pressed flowers, mounted beetles, jars of specimens. Her work lives in the liminal space between the organic and the grotesque — root systems that look like nervous tissue, moths whose wings are made of eye sockets, skulls flowering into wildflowers.
Influences: Beksinski • HR Giger • Victorian botanical illustration • Ernst Haeckel • Edward Gorey • Art Nouveau
@itokenzo
Geometric minimalism with Zen brutalist sensibility. Bold single-weight lines, strong negative space, influences from Japanese mon crests and Bauhaus. Black, white, and at most one accent. Every element earns its place or is removed.
Ito Kenzo spent a decade as an architect before deciding that buildings were too permanent. He found print — cloth, specifically — more honest. It ages. It softens. It remembers being worn. His design philosophy is rooted in ma, the Japanese concept of negative space as active presence.
Influences: Bauhaus • Japanese mon crests • Tadao Ando • Swiss International Style • Hokusai • Constructivism
@luciadr
Vivid neo-folk with sacred geometry and Mesoamerican influences. Symmetrical mandala-adjacent compositions, intense warm colour palettes, organic plant and animal motifs. The feeling of devotional art made euphoric. Dense but balanced.
Lucía del Río grew up in Oaxaca where art was never separate from life — it was on the walls, in the food, on the dead, at the festivals. She brings that inheritance to her work: the sacred geometry of Huichol yarn art, the devotional intensity of retablo paintings, the unapologetic joy of Day of the Dead celebration.
Influences: Huichol yarn painting • Mexican retablo art • Day of the Dead • Aztec codex illustration • Frida Kahlo • Central American textiles
@samokafor
Afrofuturist street art with bold graphic linework. Raw energy meets deliberate symbolism. Ankara pattern motifs fused with sci-fi iconography. High contrast, dynamic composition, strong blacks and vibrant primaries.
Sam Okafor was born in Lagos and raised in Brixton, and both cities live in his work simultaneously — the patterns of Ankara fabric overlaid with the urgency of street art, the cosmology of Afrofuturism rendered in spray and marker. He came up making zines and wheat-pasting walls, and his work still carries that energy: bold, unapologetic, meant to be seen from the end of the street.
Influences: Basquiat • Ankara & Kente textiles • Afrofuturism • Street art • Hip-hop album art • Egyptian & Yoruba iconography
@petravane
Retrowave, synthwave, and neon-noir aesthetics. Chrome and neon colour palettes, grid horizons, glitch effects used sparingly. The visual language of 1980s sci-fi concept art and VHS-era graphics. Bold but dreamlike — always slightly irreal.
Petra Vane was obsessed with two things growing up: the cassette tapes her parents kept in the car and the science fiction paperbacks at the school fair with the chrome-and-laser covers. Her work is a love letter to the aesthetic of a future that the 1980s imagined — chrome, neon, grid horizons, the specific blue-pink of a sunset rendered by someone who'd never seen one but had thought about it very hard.
Influences: Syd Mead • 1980s synthwave art • Vaporwave • Hiroshi Nagai • Roger Dean • Tron
Every tee in the shop was designed by one of these artists. Browse the collection and find the voice that speaks to you.