Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Or just paint it black and call it a day.

The Statement

There is so much relentless positivity out there it’s enough to make you sick. We created teestories not as a solution, but as a balance. A monochrome sanctuary for the grey side of existence.

The Philosophy

We are stoics. We observe the good and the bad with the same flat indifference. This isn't about being 'edgy', it's about being honest. If you’re looking for a silver lining, you’re in the wrong place. If you’re looking for someone who understands your shadow, welcome.

The Truth

I am a collection of unfinished ideas and ghosts of projects left in the dark. Teestories isn't a business venture, it’s a desperate attempt to outrun my own habit of leaving things behind. Every design you see is a quiet victory over my own nature, a process finally followed to its inevitable end.

I don’t see the world in highlights. I see it in the flat, even light of reality, where the 'good' and the 'bad' carry the same weight. I am a person who prefers the brutal, unedited story told in a quiet room over the loud, colorful lies told outside. If you find yourself reflected in these pieces, it’s probably because we’ve met in the same gray spaces.

I am finally finishing something, that is the only truth that matters.

- Jānis Jansons (Creator)

The Closure

Every t-shirt here represents a completed thought. A process followed to its inevitable end. For once, something is finished. Do you know that feeling? The relief of finally closing a door?

The Reality

These designs aren't fantasies. They are fragments of reality sometimes colorful, usually monochrome, often disappointing, but always true. They are exactly what they were in the moment they were seen.

The Invitation

Stay a while, or don't. I might have met you out there and turned your story into a shirt without you knowing. I prefer the brutal stories. The ones that haven't been edited for the public. The real ones.

Jānis Jansons and Ronalds Jansons