The first object.
Built from colour, patience, and precision.
Designed and refined by Mongrel Studio: the Signature Cap.
The first silhouette. The cap as concept, still in shadow. Built before colour, before name.
First pencil draft; mapping the form before it moved to screen. The starting curve of the Signature Cap.
First sketch. The line that built the shape.
Mid-draft; tracing the curve that would define the cap. From paper to Photoshop to prototype.
Work in motion. The cap taking shape one line at a time.
Refining the curve, getting the proportions right before the digital build.
Sketch after sketch; chasing symmetry without losing soul.
The quiet part of the process; nothing flashy, just precision.
Sketching cap angles and characters imagining who it’s built for before the fabric ever existed.
Still drawing. Still building the form that became the cap.
Breaking down the anatomy, front, back, and top views sketched to plan the first pattern.
Studio table, the aftermath of sketches, pencils, and patience. The tools behind the build.
Desk still, notes, screens, and the next move waiting. The calm before the next build.
In motion, building, editing, testing. The work never stills for long.
Drawing the embroidery layers, translating the hand-drawn logic into stitch paths.
Digitising detail, the mark learning how to be sewn.
Building the embroidery; every line mapped by hand in Photoshop.
Morning build, reference cap, coffee, and layers of embroidery taking shape on screen.
Colour detail, one of the only early looks at the embroidery layers for the Signature Cap.
A glimpse of the gradient, first colour test for the Signature Cap embroidery.
Cap anatomy, panel studies and construction notes for the first Mongrel Logic™ prototype.
Form study, testing cap proportions and angles before texture.
Surface analysis, refining curve, shadow, and structure.
Digital line up, comparing early mock-ups ahead of render selection.
The Signature Cap, concept render. Light, form, and endurance captured in motion.
The Signature Cap black and white render of the Tropical Graffiti Gradient. The colour kept secret, the form already final.