About

Why It Is the Way It Is

Hey, thanks for being here. I'm Oz, a designer of things in Montreal. The rest of my work lives at ozgur.ca and ozgur.design. Notionblur is where the darker work goes.

The fascination is old. Late '90s, heavy metal and punk, the way these things tend to start.

It was never about black shirts or gloom for their own sake. It was the pull toward the shadows where the odd and the damned actually live, and the need to get them out of my head and onto something other people could see.

So I bring figures worth remembering to life. Historians and inventors, anarchists and vampires, the band nobody bought on time and the student who threw leaflets at an empire. Most of them changed something, refused something, or outlasted the people who tried to bury them.

Marie Curie and Mikhail Bakunin, Rosa Luxemburg and Edgar Allan Poe, Count Orlok and a snarling punk kitten. The kitten changed the mood and brought joy. Fun is in short supply, and that is reason enough.

Technology and the Zeitgeist

Years of design and art direction taught me to make an idea look like something, and to justify its existence through pure utility. Here I point the same craft at my own fixations instead of a client's brief. I use whatever artistic and technological means I can reach to build a visual universe that otherwise could not exist.

Scenes, environments, people long since gone. Nothing suits a collection about history, memory, and surveillance quite like a digital medium.

The work is human. The shirt is just where it lands. Memento vivere.

Made to Order, Made to Last

Printed When You Order

Every piece is prepared when you order it. Nothing mass-produced.

Fulfilled in North America

A shorter trip, and a parcel that arrives sooner.

Certified Materials

OEKO-TEX certified, ethically grown cotton.

Print That Holds Up

A soft, breathable DTG print, made to survive the wash. Direct-to-Garment. It’s not DTF... but you never know.

Parody, Tribute, and Fair Use

Many of the designs reference musicians, films, writers, historical figures, slogans, and cultural icons. Some pieces are parody or satire. They take a familiar phrase or image and turn it into a joke, a critique, or a piece of commentary. Others are tributes, drawn out of admiration for a person or a work. In both cases the design is transformative. It carries new meaning and is not a copy of the original.

Notionblur is independent. I am not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to any band, film, studio, publisher, company, public figure, or estate named or depicted in the work. Any names, titles, and trademarks that appear belong to their respective owners. I use them to identify the subject of a parody, tribute, or commentary, never to suggest a partnership or an official product.

Parody, satire, and commentary are protected forms of expression. In Canada they fall under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright Act. In the United States they fall under fair use. These designs are made and sold in that spirit.