recent projects/WIPs (Patreon)

hello, friends! an update on what i've been up to lately.

i've been back on the merch designing grind for later this year and on, as promised many many months ago, and diving back into branding and graphic design work has been a very fun respite from nonstop illustrating for the past year. i can't wait to reveal more about what this current project is gonna be about and for, but it's gonna become a very important and central thing for me, and i am truly looking forward to revealing it and growing it over time. it's gonna be a lot of cute arcade girls, and fun retro and early aughts era aesthetic (lookit those bubble letters! straight out of a mall in 2000!).

this project feels like a culmination of my skills and community work over the last 5-6 years, and while it's an unfortunate time to get back into making merch because of tariff shenanigans, i'm doing a lot of research and work to source material and labor as locally and ethically as possible. the debut capsule collection will be pretty small (i'm a firm believer in starting out simple), but i have BIG IDEAS for future things.

i did want to survey y'all on the kind of merch you like, though! either stuff you'd want to see/buy from me, or things you enjoy getting in general. please let me know! thanks so much for your continued support, and for your help in my market research this time around.

<3 irene