The shirt reads LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW, and the words wrap around four smiling root vegetables — a carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion — each drawn with its roots visible in the soil. The pun is doing two jobs at once. Root means to cheer. Roots…

There is a black-and-white speckled rectangle on the front of this shirt, and a dark binding strip runs down its left edge. Inside the rectangle, a white ruled label is headed COMPOSITION. Below that heading, an outlined ghost and an outlined pumpkin sit together on the label lines. The garment is a printed notebook cover,…

There is a period after the word. On the dark shirt, in large bold white lowercase letters, the word meh sits with a full stop at the end. That punctuation mark is the whole argument. Without it, the shirt is a sound. With it, the shirt is a sentence — a short, closed, declarative sentence…

NOT FRIENDLY DO NOT TOUCH. The words sit in warning-sign lettering, the kind you see on a loading dock or a substation fence. Above or beside them, a yellow caution triangle. Inside the triangle, a hand with a slash through it — the universal graphic for do not put your hand here. That is the…

On the shirt, a dashed circle sits at the top of a curved ramp. A solid ball rests at the bottom. The words above both are I HAD POTENTIAL, in white capitals. That is the whole design. No caption, no arrow, no equation. Just the ledge, the curve, the two circles, and the past tense….