Two circles sit on the shirt, and only one of them is real. The other is a dashed outline, an empty ring at the upper left ledge of a curved white ramp. The solid ball rests at the bottom right, on the flat. Above both, in white capitals: I HAD POTENTIAL. That is the whole…

Look at the center of the dark shirt. The word is meh. — lowercase, very small, and followed by a period. No animal. No exclamation point. No second line of explanation. The native garment preview shows the lettering centered and modest in scale, and that scale is not a limitation of the design. It is…

The shirt says meh. — lowercase, bold, white, and set against a dark ground. The period is there. That is the whole design, and the period is doing more work than the letters. We have written before about small words on shirts, and about the shrug that follows a sentence. This one is different in…

The shirt reads LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW in a ring around four smiling root vegetables — a carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion — each drawn with its roots visible in the soil. The lettering is plain, the faces are simple, and the whole thing sits on…

The shirt reads NOT FRIENDLY DO NOT TOUCH in the flat, condensed lettering of a municipal warning sign. Above the words sits a yellow caution triangle. Inside the triangle, a hand is crossed out by a diagonal bar. The whole composition borrows the visual grammar of a hazard placard — the kind bolted to a…