The Thinker Series
Artist · Scientist · Engineer · Inventor
1452–1519
Nature remains
the greatest inventor.
uTHiNK!
TS-001 — Leonardo da Vinci | The Thinker Series T-Shirt – uTHiNK!
About This Design
TS-001 begins the Thinker Series with Leonardo da Vinci: artist, observer, engineer, anatomist, inventor, and one of history’s clearest examples of connected thinking.
Leonardo did not separate art from science, or imagination from investigation. He looked carefully at nature, then tried to understand how it worked.
The back quote is adapted from Leonardo’s own writing:
“Though human ingenuity may make various inventions, it will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does; because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”
Why Leonardo?
Leonardo represents the spirit of uTHiNK!
Not certainty.
Not dogma.
Not passive belief.
Observation.
Curiosity.
The courage to keep looking.
Before conclusion: observe.
Before judgement: observe.
Before invention: learn from nature.
Series Note
TS-001 marks the first release in The Thinker Series — a collectable line of designs celebrating people whose lives changed the way we see, question, reason, create, and understand.
The portrait used in this design is based on Leonardo da Vinci’s famous self-portrait, redrawn in the distinctive engraving style of the Thinker Series.