Mertra Archive Disk Tee – Twenty-Five Identities Inside One Grid
Each disc in the grid carries its own colour field and graphic treatment — a scorpion on yellow, butterfly forms on dark backgrounds, the Mertra star rendered in multiple iterations, architectural photography cropped to a circle, camo patterns reduced to disc scale. No two discs share the same visual logic, which is the point. The Mertra Archive Disk T-shirt is not built around a single repeated motif but around the accumulation of motifs, the way an archive functions by holding contradictory things next to each other without resolving them into one statement.
- Twenty-five individual disc designs, each with a distinct colour field and graphic
- Mertra visual identities across multiple eras presented at equal scale within the grid
- Grid reads as a single dense graphic from distance, as individual records up close
Construction Details on the Mertra Archive Disk Tshirt
The interior collar carries a red plaid lining — a detail that only becomes visible when the neckline moves or folds back, functioning as a hidden layer of design beneath the navy exterior. A woven Mertra cross logo sits at the centre back neck on the exterior, the only branding point outside the chest graphic. The navy base fabric is a smooth medium-weight cotton jersey, chosen to keep the disc colours reading at full saturation without the heathering interference that would muddy the smaller graphic details inside each circle.
- Red plaid inner collar lining as a hidden design detail beneath the navy exterior
- Woven Mertra cross logo at the centre back neck, no additional front branding
- Smooth medium-weight cotton jersey base for full print colour saturation
Fit and Wear of the Mertra Archive Disk Tee
The cut is boxy with a wide crew neck that sits low enough to expose the red plaid lining when the collar relaxes — making the interior construction intermittently visible rather than permanently hidden. The chest graphic is centred and scaled to reach close to both sleeve seams, filling the front panel rather than sitting as a smaller placed print. This scale means the grid reads as a single visual block when the tee is worn under an open jacket, with enough of the disc arrangement visible above the lapel to communicate the graphic's density without requiring the full chest to be seen.
- Wide crew neck that intermittently exposes the red plaid lining as the collar relaxes
- Full chest-width graphic that reads as a visual block even partially under outerwear
- Machine wash cold inside out to preserve disc print saturation across the grid
Shop the Mertra Archive Disk Tee
Twenty-five discs, twenty-five different answers to the same brand. Add the Mertra Archive Disk Tee to your cart and look closer — every circle has something different inside it.
