During the summer of 2024, my agency of employment at the time, Mono, put on a t-shirt design contest — open to anyone and everyone in the agency. From finance to Designers and every discipline in between, anyone who wanted to could enter.

I brought forward a design that, admittedly, I didn’t think would win, but one that I loved. Inspired by the drawings of Daniel Johnston and classic jersey design, I created a t-shirt that ended up beating out dozens of other designs (and a few designers). The point of this story? Sometimes good taste is all it takes.