Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale is the desert dressed up. Old Town keeps the 1920s storefronts and the horse-trough history, but the real story is the Sonoran Desert pressing in on every side: Camelback Mountain at the west end, Pinnacle Peak and the McDowell Sonoran Preserve to the north with its thirty thousand acres of saguaro and trail, and a January sun that brings snowbirds from every cold state in the country. The Arizona Canal runs through town like a secret bike path. Monsoon season arrives in July with dust walls and lightning, and locals talk about it the way other towns talk about snow.

Our Scottsdale collection is drawn from a February evening when the mountains go pink and the patios fill up. The crewneck carries a saguaro-and-Camelback silhouette in sunset orange, cream and agave green with the city name set in a wide, relaxed serif beneath. The tee is lighter, Scottsdale over the 1894 line with a single saguaro, made for Tom's Thumb at sunrise and an Old Town walk after dark. The mug and sticker share the saguaro artwork.

Everything is original artwork, printed to order in the USA and shipped with tracking. We make it for the year-rounders who know the summer is the price of the winter, for the snowbirds who count the days until November, and for anyone who left Arizona and still misses the smell of creosote after a rain.