the makers
Thank You Come Again
designer
TYCA1subversion, humour, and a lot of jpegs. the UK designer who turned the NFT era into wearable pop art, and found his way to decanted.
As a graphic designer from the UK I've always gravitated towards visual artists and creatives whose work is multi-disciplined, interactive, subversive and often with a good chunk of humour. Banksy, Stefan Sagmeister, David Carson, Barbara Kruger, David Shrigley, and more recently Rafaël Rozendaal and Beeple, to name a few.
the work
made in the metaverse.
I initiated Thank You Come Again aka TYCA1 during the NFT craze of 2021, in the fallout from the pandemic. I wanted to combine the zeitgeist's themes of crypto and blockchain with the iconic pop culture of the web2 era, using digital tools like Figma and Womp3D. MTV's logo got spun into NFTV, with over 81 variants burned to the blockchain. Robert Indiana's LOVE became a monument for worthless JPEGs. Super Mario morphed into Super Degen, and Kaiser Söze's broken mug finale became Bitcoin's supposed creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
“ironically, the majority of this output became trapped in the metaverse.
TYCA1
signage for the metaverse
The London Underground became signage for a place that didn't quite exist yet. Mind the gap.
onto cotton
the humble t-shirt.
The humble t-shirt has always been a fantastic means for self expression, a way to transport ideas into physical, everyday situations. I'd dabbled in print marketplaces like Threadless and Society6, but they were now at a scale where getting noticed was hard, and platforms like Redbubble had been overrun with slop. I wanted something that felt more like a real, brick and mortar independent store, where everything is hand selected and placed mindfully. Then I found Everpress, and began selling designs with the same subversion and humour, independent from the NFT project. Their limited-time campaigns added an ephemeral, exclusive layer I loved as a buyer, backed by a strong curatorial team that celebrated the best talent in their network.
onwards
and then, decanted.
After a few years the site sadly stopped operating, and I began hunting again, eventually stumbling across a Reddit post about this initiative by decanted's founder Pedro. What stood out were the new features they're adding, like a monthly subscription model and community voting. I look forward to seeing the diversity of artists fostered here, and where it may lead my own practice. Onwards!
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