Books and Art and T Shirts, Together As One. You're Welcome.

Ali’s Team Pick:

Ever want the entire text of a book on a tee shirt? How about on a poster? Me too! This is a thing I want!

Litographs will provide us with this dream realized by putting the entire text of our favorite classics on beautiful screen printed tee shirts and posters and then selling them to us. They’re not just going to throw some words on there, either. They’re going to print them in beautiful designs that truly represent the heart of the story. One of my favorite books in all the world is Alice in Wonderland. Their print of this work is breath taking.

alice in wonderland — Alice in Wonderland, via litographs

See all the tiny, tiny words in there? I can’t even believe it. And in order to expand their line, they’ve got a Kickstarter going with rewards like a litographs tee shirt of your choice for $30, or one of the screen printed posters for $50. Remain unconvinced? Take a look at their Kickstarter video below to see the wonderful craftsmanship going into each piece (the way they print the tee shirts makes my brain explode.) Each tee shirt and print is unique. And don’t forget to vote on their fifth and as yet undecided tee shirt design! Leaves of Grass and the Kama Sutra are both on the table.

A.E. Osworth

A.E. Osworth is part-time Faculty at The New School, where they teach undergraduates the art of digital storytelling. Their novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright, about a game developer dealing with harassment (and narrated collectively by a fictional subreddit), is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing (April 2021) and is available for pre-order now. They have an eight-year freelancing career and you can find their work on Autostraddle (where they used to be the Geekery Editor), Guernica, Quartz, Electric Lit, Paper Darts, Mashable, and drDoctor, among others.