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How Online Ceramics Captured the Gleeful Nihilism of 2020
The Grateful Dead-inspired LA designers discuss the political act of wearing a slogan, making art during a dark year, and the sweeter side of death Online Ceramics
There is something about a T-shirt reminding you that ‘We’re All Going To Die’ that feels so awkward, so like a nervous laugh or a shudder passing over your skin. It also feels perfectly entwined with a year in which death suddenly appeared much closer.
In October, Los Angeles brand Online Ceramics printed the phrase onto one of their t-shirts, the words cheerfully bobbing above a heart emoji-framed planet earth like a cross-stitch of a deeply weird year. The Instagram post announcing the new release quickly became a meme encompassing life during the pandemic, but the idea for the slogan had actually been around long before the world went into various quarantines, lockdowns