Mauderno — Block Size:20 oz

Mauderno — Block Size:20 ozNo hedging. No background noise. The Mauderno collection draws from the Bauhaus tradition geometry reduced to its essentials, black on white, pattern as purpose. The Block is its most substantial expression the same modular grid, but here the black forms press so close to the edges of each cell that the white grid lines barely hold them apart. The balance tips decisively toward black. The result has real weight to it graphic, committed, the kind of

even pressure

symmetrical blooms in chartreuse and peacock blue

Vine follows a single climbing stem up the mug

Nothing about this design is trying too hard

which is the more interesting direction to go

and the easiest to just enjoy without overthinking

If Lichen is a woodland floor

Understated but deliberate

Ink moving the way it wants to

Also a birthday for anyone who owns a coffee table book about the natural world

like cracked earth in drought

Dottie — Onyx takes a format that has existed for decades and commits to it completely