About Deviant Goods...
The history of Deviant Goods:
January 2005: Hey, I have a job! So now the knitting is back to hobby status.
December 2004: Another year, another Naughty Santa show.
July 2004: I got tired of having all that crappy eBay yarn around the house, and sold it all so I can buy some slightly less crappy yarn.
January 2004: Dang, I'm glad xmas season is over. I made a lot of hats.
October 2003: My first international press coverage! L'Express prints an article that I can't read.
October 2003: The Utne Reader profiles my cancer hats.
Summer 2003: Sharon Osbourne wears her Cranky Chic Chemo Cap on The Osbournes.
Summer 2003: The cranky chic FUCK CANCER hats are featured in the summer 2003 issue of BUST magazine.
January 2003: More deviant ideas are flowing! Now that xmas season is over there are lots of new products coming out.
December 2002: The FUCK CANCER hat appears in The Globe (a supermarket tabloid), and in some German media thing that a friend found on the web.
December 2002: Deviant Goods participates in Naughty Santa's Black Market, an alternative crafts fair in San Francisco.
November 2002: Deviant Goods products are featured at National Product, a new retail store at Market and Guerrero in San Francisco.
November 2002: Deviant Goods is registered and launched as an official business, with a bank account and a retail license and everything!
October 2002: TV star Sharon Osbourne is spotted wearing her Deviant Goods FUCK CANCER hat to her radiation treatments for colon cancer.
August 2002: The Deviant Goods capasaurus hat is a popular raffle item at a cancer benefit for Lin Dyer, held at Zeitgeist bar in San Francisco. Inspired by Lin, Deviant Goods launches the FUCK CANCER hat project.
April 2002: Angie participates in an El Rey Del Art show at 66Balmy Gallery, selling hats and other wares based on the El Rey designs.
Feb-March 2002: Angie spends way too much money buying lots of random yarn from eBay.
January 2002: The first squid hat is finished and presented to El Rey himself, who responds, "You are out of your mind."
December 2001: Angie begins making a hat based on El Rey Del Art's "Surly Squid" character. She obsessively knits the thing at social events, where friends get all excited at the hat design and order some for themselves.
Deviant Goods is a tiny little arts business that started in San Francisco in 2002 by one twisted individual (um, that would be me) with a lot of support from her even more twisted friends. I admit that I stole most of my ideas from them. (Thanks, El Rey!)
My shop is still just me, knitting and painting madly in a makeshift studio in my little apartment, and trying to keep my cats from walking on any freshly-painted pieces. Now that some orders have waited two years or more to be filled, I've decided not to make items to order anymore. I'll make things and put them on the site, but if I'm out of a certain item, you'll just have to check back. Maybe I'll start a waiting list someday, if I can stand the guilt.
I try to use as many recycled materials as I can, so colors and materials can be unpredictable. Also keep in mind that each item is made by hand, so it will be chock fulla quirky variations.
I hope you like my stuff!
--Angie
