Quiet Hero just added handmade soaps to our line of offerings. These are custom made and individually cut, making each bar unique. They come in 6 different scents: Lavendar, Lemongrass, Oatmeal Milk & Honey, Cucumber Melon, Cinnamon Latte, and Pomegranate.
You can only get these at our Farmer’s Market stall in Ocean Beach, Old Town, Gaslamp, Hillcrest, or Otay.
Just a quick update: We’ve been struttin’ our stuff up at Directives West, the West Coast fashion powerhouse. Here’s a snap from their latest fashion show:
Lovin’ it!
We’ve been waiting until it’s official, and now it is. You can find our latest kick-ass brand of Quiet Hero fashion in Nordstrom up in Thousand Oaks, with more to follow. I’ll tell you what: Read the rest of this entry »
Designers Against AIDS asked Quiet Hero to embellish one of their shirts, 
and leaping on yet another opportunity for creativity, we got after it. We cut up and re-sewed the shirt, dedicated it to a friend of one of interns, and generally threw gas on the QH fire. DAA will post a pic of the Quiet Hero contribution here in July, in the meantime, here’s a few more Read the rest of this entry »
The Desyn blog got jiggy with Quiet Hero in late May, making the observation that the Gap (yep, that massive clothing store) is really getting into the kinds of designs and the idea of art on tees that has driven QH from day one.
This is rad, as it shows that more and more companies are realizing just how important it is to nurture and develop fresh, original, and cutting edge art.
The idea of raw creative integrity (being true to what we see as spontaneously catching our hearts and eyes) just seems so darn powerful, and we see this whole Gap thing as a result of more artists producing art for themselves and letting the world realize just how great original art is.
I’ll start this off with a long quote by Marcus Aurelius from Book 4 of his Meditations.
“Men seek retreats for themselves–in the country, by the sea, in the hills–and you yourself are particularly prone to this yearning. But all this is quite unphilosophic, when it is open to you, at any time you want, to retreat Read the rest of this entry »
Today I heard a student quote “Invictus”, by William Ernest Henley. While it’s a little intense, I thought posting the poem in its entirety was appropriate. Read the rest of this entry »