Painted Murals. Painted Everything.
Painted Murals. Painted Everything.
Never stop creating.
What makes us human?
You know, the thing that makes us, us.
I get it. Big existential question. Eye roll. But seriously....
There’s a million ways you could describe that unanswering force that manifests itself in creativity, music, beauty, art, life.
We experience it everyday.
It deserves a name and that name is Zamforia.
At least to us.
/zamˈfôrēə/ , sounds like "euphoria" but with a "zam". noun.
Zamforia: Where the instance of being alive transforms into feeling alive.
The embodiment and aura of the perfect action, at the perfect time. Love motivates the action, and creates the moment. That moment is Zamforia.
It’s the
The butterflies in your gut.
The shivers up your spine.
Musicians call it soul.
Athletes call it heart.
Skydivers call it adrenaline.
A mother calls it unconditional Love.
Romeo called it Juliet.
Disney called it imagination, for Dr. King it was equality. To Einstein, it was curiosity.
Even Luke Skywalker called it “The Force”.
But to us,
We call it Zamforia.
Brief History
We started ZAM around 2005 by slinging t-shirts out of our Jeep because we had something important to say: Make Art. Do Love. Do something good.
Our first collection of tees said Love in different languages and they served as the foundation of Zamforia. As we grew and expanded over the past decades, so has our collection of art.
The Ambigram Logo
Who needs a simple logo, when you can have a logo that just keeps going. Something you've never seen before. Something more than "just a logo".
Our History
The Start
The Idea Was Planted
My sister drew a little sketch of the family for me.
I drew it back to her, filled it with color and added to it "Love in different languages".
Boom.
Love In Tibetan
The First Shirt
Google Translate wasn't a thing
and Tibetan dictionaries were hard to come by.
We went to a small Tibetan restaurant to get this first language.
Someone actually came out of the kitchen
to write it down for us on a napkin. Apron and all.
Forcing Growth
On The Road
It felt like everyday were on the road or at an event.
When we were, I'd cover a city in stickers or paint something on a wall.
When we weren't, I was in the studio.
...a lot of hard work and time later, we did a lot of great things....
All Shirts Came Packaged In Potato Chip Bags
Legend has it that some unopened bags still exist.
And yes, it was a real chip bag.
(Non-enviromentally friendly and made from Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene on the inside, low-density polyethene in the middle, and an outer layer of Surlyn®.)
More Types Of Fun Packaging
Then we opened our first store.
We opened the store/studio on October 25, 2009. Everyday it was filled with fucking fantastic loiters of all kinds.
The kids just called it "The ZAM".
...and people started to get into it which was cool.
we never advertised or did anything we were supposed to do. everything was organic and by word-of-mouth.
just kept making and making and getting better and getting better.
just wanted something to grow old with.
we made families. traveled around the world. stopped. started again. took breaks. started other things.
Just kept living.
And now we're here.
Learn Even More
Visit the Vault
Visit the Vault
See more of our past thru pictures. See limited edition t-shirts, our retired shirts, sketches, photos, etc.
