The Babbletees Team

 

Josh Saathoff - Art Director/Operations/Production

Babbletees Art Director Josh Saathoff responsible for all Graphic Design and Creative Direction of the T-shirt Company
Josh started out pursuing Fine Art, but the universe led him to Graphic Design as he found it the perfect way to mass-produce functional and wearable graphic art. Saathoff, an unrealized country-boy at heart, returned to the Hinterlands of Illinois to start BabbleTees after being suffocated in Chicago-land’s claustrophobic vortex of hyper consumerism. 

He is a fanatical garden & landscaper - especially dwarf conifers, ornamental grasses, native herbaceous perennials inspired by the new wave gardening style pioneered by Piet Ouldolf - as well as enjoying Science Fiction, hiking, golf, SimCity 4, camping & anything involving the outdoors and designing exceedingly idiosyncratic, unique t-shirts. 

Josh loves playing with asymmetry layouts, visual texture, contrasting forms, and analogous or other advanced, sophisticated (often times silly) color schemes in his quirky t-shirt designs. Josh's Tshirt designs draw highly from Art History, especially mid-20th Century Swiss Graphic Design and  International Style, His enigmatic dreams, fascination with infrastructure & industry, all things European, introverted daydream meanderings, and crafty childhood memories influence his signature garment graphics.

He is responsible for running every aspect of Babbletees. E-mail him: josh[at]babbletees.com with any questions/comments about our designs or to babble about politics, deep thoughts, tabby cats or the latest esoteric dwarf conifer.

Josh’s favorite BabbleTees are German Food Chain Diagram, Organic Chemistry-beginnings of life, Carbon Cycle, and Vintage Dutch Population Density Map (even though its brightness stops traffic and can be seen from outer space). 

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