Student duo’s company sells doodle-inspired posters, T-shirt designs
Third year students Colin Tandy (UCLA Department of English) & Chris Kim (UCLA Department of Design Media Arts) have teamed up to found the illustration company Snot and Sand to sell their poster and T-shirt designs.
"Runny noses may not be the typical inspiration for a company name, but Colin Tandy felt otherwise.
“I grew up in San Diego, I was by the beach, and picking my nose and playing in the sand was like my childhood,” he said.
The third-year English student teamed up with his friend Chris “Chuff” Kim, a third-year design media arts student, to found the company Snot and Sand to sell their own poster and T-shirt designs. Tandy said the company aims to add a decorative flair to the plain white walls of living spaces, with its eclectic and doodle-esque art style.
Kim designed Snot and Sand’s first poster “Oh shit, that’s art?” using an amalgamation of doodles Tandy drew in notebooks during his first year. He presented the poster to Tandy after Tandy performed at the WestWoodstock festival in April 2017, as a thank-you gift for supporting him during a difficult time in his life.
The “Oh shit, that’s art?” poster features an ensemble of characters set against a green background, with the titular phrase in the upper-left corner. The range of characters includes an anthropomorphic slice of bread and a man with mustard-yellow hair holding up a peace sign, among many others."— Sidra Rashid, Mar. 11, 2018
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