Credited sources
A Bombay label traces every print from something within four kilometres of its studio, and prints the source on the inside label.
Faisal Khan · 2 September 2026 · 4 min read
The practice started as bookkeeping and became the point. Every graphic in the archive is traced from a wall, a shutter or the back of a truck, and the location goes on the inside label.
Why it matters more than it sounds
Streetwear has an old habit of taking vernacular design and selling it back at a markup to people who have never seen the original. A credit line does not fix that on its own. It does make the transaction legible.
The constraint that improved the work
Four kilometres is a small radius. It forces the studio back to the same handful of streets season after season, which is how it started noticing the signwriters rather than just the signs.
