About

Preface: Honestly, we felt like our previous site design was too complex and it wasn’t good for our psyches. That said, we’re keeping it basic. If you want to find out more about the folks below and the other things they do, visit our links page.

What: We make things. Clothes, mostly. To be precise, artist-driven streetwear inspired by our participation in and appreciation of the cultures of which we are a part: skateboarding, tattooing, low-brow art, design, and graffiti. We are all artists and most of us are bitter but often appear happy.

Who: Formula Werks was founded in 2003 and is run by co-creative directors Escape76 and Joey Potts.

Who Else: Additional family/team members include Intel One, Revise CMW, Chris Peoples, Malin Hanås, Brian Morris, Jose Garibaldi, Sket One, and MAD.

Motherfuckin’ Bloodlines: Scumbag Nation, Freshly Dipped, Jets Like Taxis, Baroness Productions, House of Liu / Killerslayer, Cartel, ScumLife, Random Nature, Shawnimals, Sket One Productions, MAD Toy Design, Solid Industries.

Musically Inclined Brethren: The Comeups (DJ’s Intel, Pickel, Maker, Jose Garibaldi), Yea Big + Kid Static, No Request Sound (DJ’s Kid Cut Up, Why B.), Glue, Nicolay, Deeskee, The Opus, Full Duplex Music, DJMP, Meddafore, Looptroop, Matlock, Lone Catalysts, Wes Restless, Meat Number 5.

Ego Trippin’: 1976 Worldwide, 210SA, 2k Words, Bassline Magazine, Chicago Red Eye, Chicago Reader, Chicago Red Streak, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago UnScene, Cool Hunting, Cool’eh, Cruisin’, E.U. Kicks, Echoes Magazine, Elemental Magazine, EZ Life, Fly Paper, Four Magazine, Freshness Magazine, Full Vinyl, Glamour Magazine, Gotta Eat, High Snobiety, HipHopSite.com, Hypebeast, I Want Your Skull, I-Jonez, Jungle Life, Juxtapoz, Kick Fiend, Kicksaholic, King Magazine, Knowledge Magazine, Kudos Magazine, mashKULTURE, Mass Appeal, Metromix, Musinsa, My Air Shoes, Oh! Shit It’s Cool, Plugged In, Quad City View, Rap Spot Denmark, Rebel Magazine, Rocky Magazine, Slam x Hype, St. Charles Sun, STREEThing, Strictly Fitteds, Style Diary, Sunday’s Best, T-Shirts Around The Internet, The Chicagoist, The Daily Tee, Tilllate.com, Time Out Chicago, Toys R Evil, UR Chicago, Urban Smarts, V2EX, Vinyl Pulse, What To Wear During An Orange Alert, WHRW FM New York, Word Magazine.

Art Snobbery: It’s mad assholish to say, but the guys here have been in so many fucking art shows that it’d take a goddamn website of its own to list them all. Check out the gallery page to see some of them, or see the front page to see upcoming shows.

Credits: Formula Werks, Scumbag Nation, Blog Oh! Blog for the original theme, Escape76 on the customization & coding, Chris Peoples and Shayne Sanderson for consulting, Flint Chaney with the photography skills.

Epilogue: Life is too goddamn complex.