As we mentioned yesterday, Mishka will be showcasing a tee each day from their Fall collection. The second tee up is Der Kosmos. Fans of KMFDM will immediately recognize the resemblance to the band’s album covers and its inspiration from Russian Constructivism. Greg Rivera had this to say about it:

“I had this concept of doing a graphic based around an astronauts fantastic discovery in space, but I wanted it all reflected within the astronauts helmet. Obviously the discovery would be something alien, but all needed to be something that would be transfixing, something this astronaut just had to reach forward to touch. I finally settled on this exotic discovery being an alien version of the Sirens from Greek mythology. I had this concept of doing a graphic based around an astronauts fantastic discovery in space, but I wanted it all reflected within the astronauts helmet. Obviously the discovery would be something alien, but all needed to be something that would be transfixing, something this astronaut just had to reach forward to touch. I finally settled this exotic discovery being an alien version of the Sirens from Greek mythology…”

More after the jump.

“Once the illustration was done we set forth to coloring it in Brutes! trademark 3 tone shading, which while looks quite simplistic, poses quite a lot of challenges to do just right! Then there was naming this pseudo astro-industrial masterpiece. Our first name Exotica we scrapped after it became the focal point for something in the near future. This was then replaced with “Cosmos” in Russian, but as a few people quickly pointed out the Cyrillic of Cosmos looks and reads like KOCMOC. After some deliberation we decided some people may not want to wear a tee could be read as COCK-MOCK, Hahaha! So it was back to the drawing board until we finally settled on it’s current name which translates out of Russian to mean Sphere, Orb or just Heavenly / Planetery Body which was equally as fitting and looked interesting and exotic in Cyrillic.” 

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