
Bomb Story: Adam Bomb Squad is a worldwide phenomenon with artists and contributors chiming in from around the globe. Artist Iwan Smit hails from The Netherlands and contributes this Adam Bomb to the collection. As far as the meaning? ""I don’t like pre-chewing the content of the illustrations, and I find it hard to answer the question of what the story is behind the images.” In other words, Smit likes it when people let their own imagination tell the story.| Background Story: Originating in Scotland as ""tartan,"" we now call this pattern of crisscrossed lines ""Plaid."" Growing up in Southern California during the '80s and '90s, plaid beach volleyball shorts were always in our purview, thanks to labels like Mossimo and Stüssy. When we elevated to making cut-n-sew apparel like button-ups in the early 2000s, plaids made their way into our language as a nod to both the surf culture of the West Coast and Polo's influence on the East. In fact, every plaid speaks to a different subculture. Buffalo plaids were woven into the early New York hip-hop lumberjacks. Shadow plaids on swap meet Pendletons. And The Hundreds plaids, for all.