Online Ceramics’ New Era Begins With BornXRaised
On July 17, Online Ceramics’ founders Alix Ross and Elijah Funk announced that they are parting ways, Ross pursuing new ventures and Funk staying at the helm of the graphic streetwear label they founded in 2016 as a Grateful Dead bootleg T-shirt enterprise.
The duo's final project under the original Online Ceramics banner is a book created with A24, Tricker's Cabin: The Oral & Visual History of Online Ceramics (2024). The book was released on July 17 and, a mere two days later, Online Ceramics is releasing its next project: a collaboration with BornXRaised.
If you were wondering what the new era of Online Ceramics, now headed by Elijah Funk alone, will look like, this upcoming collaboration might offer some answers.
The 14-piece collection is titled "Born Online" and is an ode to the internet generation, delivering graphics reminiscent of early-2000s Myspace pages and Online Ceramic’s typically tongue-in-cheek design language.
Collaging together seemingly random graphics, the visuals include a teddy bear with angel wings holding a red heart and an early version of a Windows (most likely Windows 98) desktop browsing a fictional Online Ceramics x BornXRaised website.
These are presented alongside BornXRaised's signature logo and odes to both brands' hometown of Los Angeles.
So, the new collection includes whacky, hyper-ironic graphics like those we’ve come to love from Online Ceramics? Well, yeah.
Assuming this is Online Ceramics' first collection with Elijah Funk alone at the helm (it’s the first collection to follow up the book which was his and Alix Ross’ final project) then it appears that Online Ceramics' new era includes much of the same excellent irony.
