Field notes

Common Specimens borrows the format of a mid-century field guide and points it at the people and animals already in your life. The layout is serious. The findings are not.

Every plate follows the same conventions: a common name in capitals, a binomial that would not survive peer review, and numbered observations — four on a single specimen, six on a group plate. The joke lives in the callouts. The affection lives in the fact that somebody bothered to catalogue you at all.

Every plate is printed to order — nothing is warehoused, nothing is overprinted. Tees come in nine colours, crewnecks in six, both in sizes S to 3XL, and both ship free anywhere in the US — printed in 2–5 days, delivered 2–5 days after, so 4–10 days door to door. If one turns up damaged, misprinted, or simply not what the listing showed, tell us inside thirty days and you get a replacement or your money back.

Nothing here is at anyone's expense — if a plate stings, that is recognition, not malice.