
Bomb Story: In the middle of the pandemic, we couldn't sell enough jigsaw puzzles. It seemed like the entire world had delved into the art of baking banana bread, tie-dying sweats, and working on 1,000-piece puzzles to pass the lockdown. Puzzle Adam is dedicated to this strange season of our lives, but was initially introduced in the Spring of 2011. | Background Story: In the early 2000s, all-over-prints reigned supreme in independent streetwear. The trend was a response to the boring solids and understated color-blocking of the dominant skate and urban market. It also followed the footsteps of Nigo's A Bathing Ape camos. Smaller, T-shirt-based brands like ours tapped into the ancient screen-printing techniques of roller-printing, oversized screens, and belt-printing to execute messy patterns over seams, collars, and hemlines. In stretching our imaginations around repeating patterns, Bobby thought of Escher and tesselations. At the time, we were traveling a lot between LA and New York. Since The Hundreds was heavily influenced by the artists and culture that anchor these cities, Bobby drew a skyline that represents Los Angeles. When flipped upside down, it calls out New York City.