This year, Mission Bicycle Company is offering its first line of Día de los Muertos T-shirts. Images courtesy of Mission Bicycle Company

Mission Bicycle Company is offering its first line of locally printed, limited-edition Día de los Muertos T-shirts. In the past, the company has designed calavera-inspired (skull) bicycles by staffer David Archard. This year, new staffer Jacob Niebergall designed the American Apparel T-shirts that incorporate bicycle gears within the skull. According to Niebergall:

“I really enjoyed doing the research on traditional Día de los Muertos iconography. After that step it was just a matter of sitting down, drinking a lot of coffee, and trying to piece together which bicycle parts would work for which parts of the skull. The chain links made great teeth. A saddle made a perfect for the nose.”


Mission Bicycle Company
766 Valenica
415-683-6166

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Sarah McClure loves the colorful writing, and opportunity to connect to larger issues, that Arts & Culture reporting allows—she reads the Times’ Art Beat often. Here, she’s experiencing art on the street that the LA native is accustomed to seeing whiz-by from car windows. She is a Master's degree candidate at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she is specializing in multimedia, Spanish-language reporting and Latin America.

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