Artist Steve MacDonald, who we once had the pleasure of interviewing, has teamed up with Matthew Davis to start a new company called Little Zero. They’ve already designed a rad t-shirt for the San Francisco track bike collective, MASH, and now have a summer line out. Since it’severy month is bike month here in NYC, we’re thinking this bike shirt is most appropriate but would honestly like them all, especially “Create & Burrow“.
If you happen to be in Milwaukee in May, you can check out Steve’s embroidered art at Paper Boat Boutique, where he’s exhibiting with Rachel Budde of Brooklyn.
Everything artist Steve MacDonald touches turns to gold. Also known as Ramblin Worker, he uses golden canvas to embroider scenes of imposing skyscrapers, crimson mountain ranges, and wild animals from tigers to track bike riders. Also embroidering cuckoo clocks, skateboards, messenger bags and sound bombing tanks, Steve MacDonald is proving that unlike King Midas, his touch on his vintage Singer sewing machine is anything but a curse.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’m an artist and I live and work in San Francisco.
What got you started on the sewing machine?
Sewing was the only thing I didn’t try in art school. But, I discovered it one day at my friend’s house. His name is Tim Clinton, and he gave me my first sewing machine and from that point on, I kept experimenting with it. I used it make little things and also to draw with, which I kept pushing and pushing. Drawing with a sewing machine is a lot like drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch. One of my Etch-a-Sketch drawings.
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