Partnership info
Overview
- Type
- Product Collaboration
- Year
- 2025
Transit and Glyph both come out of the same source material: Wearstler's own travel photography of inner-city street art and urban signage. Transit translates that into fabric: nine variations of a graphic quality that's quietly bold rather than loud, built to show off yarn quality and weave structure as much as pattern. Glyph takes the same reference into Lee Jofa Modern's first specialty wallcovering line, four pattern stories rendered in materials rich enough to include raw silk and silk-cotton blends, three of which double as upholstery. Architectural rhythm runs through both: structured, repeating forms that read as considered rather than decorative, with a color story versatile enough to sit in different rooms without losing its identity.
Creative Process
Getting Transit's graphic quality to read as "quietly bold" rather than loud came down to weave structure and yarn quality: the same rigor Lee Jofa's mills apply to a two-hundred-year-old archival print, aimed instead at Wearstler's own photography. Glyph pushed the craft further still: it's built as fabric first, then paper-backed to become a wallcovering, so what ends up on a wall carries the same yarn richness as something meant to be touched, not just looked at.
Transit and Glyph came directly from my own photographs of the city — street art, signage, all of it. I wanted to translate that energy into something refined enough to live with every day.
