Official seal of the Department of Obscure Studies

DEPARTMENT OF
OBSCURE STUDIES

Purveyors of deeply unimportant knowledge  ·  est. MMXXVI

IGNOTUM PER IGNOTIUS

“the unknown, explained by the even more unknown”

The Department maintains an expanding archive of field guides, specimens, and official notices concerning matters no reasonable institution would fund. Findings are distributed on shirts, mugs, stickers, prints, and other approved substrates.

ARCHIVE OPENING SHORTLY — REDBUBBLE OFFICIAL SUPPLY — ZAZZLE

📮 The Department's monthly dispatch of new acquisitions will be available for subscription soon.

RECENT ACQUISITIONS

A sampling from the archive. Catalog expands nightly.

Ghost Spore Print Shirt — Dark Cute Mycology Tee, Funny Mushroom Ghost Gift
Ghost Spore Print Shirt — Dark Cute Mycology Tee, Funny Mushroom Ghost
Anatomy of an Unplanned Shot Shirt — Funny Golf Science Tee, Bad Golfer Vintage
Anatomy of an Unplanned Shot Shirt — Funny Golf Science Tee, Bad Golfe
Edible Confidence Interval Shirt — Funny Foraging Field Guide Tee, Mycology Absu
Edible Confidence Interval Shirt — Funny Foraging Field Guide Tee, Myc
Route Confirmed Terrain Estimated Shirt — Funny Bikepacking Navigation Tee, Grav
Route Confirmed Terrain Estimated Shirt — Funny Bikepacking Navigation
Footage: Tuesday Shirt — Funny VHS Aesthetic Tee, Lo-Fi Camcorder Humor Gift
Footage: Tuesday Shirt — Funny VHS Aesthetic Tee, Lo-Fi Camcorder Humo
Substrate Is Colonizing Shirt — Funny Mycology Anti-Motivational Tee, Mushroom G
Substrate Is Colonizing Shirt — Funny Mycology Anti-Motivational Tee,

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

Founded MMXXVI  ·  Budget: undisclosed  ·  Oversight: none

The Department of Obscure Studies is the world's foremost institution — by default, as no other institution applied — for the collection, classification, and garment-based distribution of knowledge that serves no practical purpose whatsoever. Our researchers operate in the manner of a museum gift shop run by a sardonic engineer: vintage plates, retro instrumentation, and dry wit, maintained to exacting standards nobody requested.

DEPARTMENTAL DOCTRINE

  1. Article I. We are rigorous about things that don't matter.
  2. Article II. All findings are peer-reviewed by nobody.
  3. Article III. No matter shall be deemed too obscure; obscurity is the qualification.
  4. Article IV. Findings are distributed exclusively on shirts, mugs, stickers, prints, and other approved substrates.
  5. Article V. The unknown shall, wherever possible, be explained by the even more unknown. (Ignotum per ignotius.)