Miriam Dym, based in California, is mainly occupied in designing and printing fabrics these days, but among her many textile operations is the Logo Removal Service. Send her your ugly-ass printed corporation-shilling t-shirt and she will--yep-- remove that logo, replacing it with an underpatch in a random but lovely shape dictated by your advertising slogan or ancient sports team or defunct charity--or whatever you've got. Of course she could do similar work on anything with a hole, but I do love the way she creates the holes in the first place. Iconic mendspiration
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