A Tropical Maze From A Geometric Mind

For their newest Spring offering, the crew over at Slowtide paired up with Arkitip and tapped New York-based artist and surfer, Todd St. John, to design two of Slowtide’s plush, full-print beauties, as well as one of their new, and utterly necessary tech towels. 

Born in Hawaii, St. John is a designer, illustrator, animator and furniture designer, who, “sees little separation between the many mediums he deploys, just as he relishes the interplay between his ongoing generative personal practice, frequent collaborations, and client-driven projects. In the surfaces and forms of all St. John’s work—whether furniture, product, graphic campaign or illustration—reside the crosscurrents of his varied experiences and interests in texture, scale, light, movement, image, abstraction, and materiality.”

After founding HunterGatherer studio in 2000, St. John’s gone on to work with everyone from The New Yorker to the Williamsburg posse at Pilgrim Surf + Supply.

Take a gander at both colorways below, and click play above for an introduction to St. John, if you’re unfamiliar, and a look into the creative process of a truly unique design mind. 

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Todd St. John in his New York studio, with the new Slowtide x Arkitip “Hunter” towel.

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