Sodium Hours

Nothing is running until 05:00. The board says so in amber.

Heavyweight crewneck · 60% cotton, 40% polyester

$80USD

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ColorNavy

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Specs

BlankUnisex Oversized Heavyweight Sweatshirt · Bella + Canvas 4711
Fabric60% cotton, 40% polyesterAthletic Heather: 94% cotton, 6% polyester
Blank originNicaragua
DesignFront, Large back, Left sleeve
SizesS · M · L · XL · 2XL · 3XL
MadeTo order, in the US and the EU

Behind the design

The idea is one night log across three areas. The chest carries a single off-white line, LAST SIGNAL 03:12, with no mark beside it. The back is a dead departures board: NO SERVICE and 05:00 fitted to the full print width and stretched tall like cast signage, cut by horizontal slits. A small UNTIL sits flush right, above a short timestamp log. TRANSMISSION ENDS runs in amber from shoulder to cuff. The brutalist style was chosen because signage doesn't decorate, it informs. All three designs are drawn in code in IBM Plex Mono and printed direct-to-garment on a Navy heavyweight sweatshirt.

The words are a transit notice turned into a night log. NO SERVICE is the city shutting down. The huge 05:00 is the only promise left. Sodium amber is the color of streetlights after midnight, set against Navy like a sky with nothing in it. The chest line and the sleeve sign-off open and close the entry.

Shipping and returns

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About the blank

Go big on comfort with this oversized fleece sweatshirt. Soft inside, bold outside—perfect for layering or lounging. Unisex fit, heavyweight fabric, and cozy to the core. · 60% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton, 40% polyester fleece · Athletic Heather is 94% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton, 6% polyester fleece · Fabric weight: 10 oz./yd.² (339 g/m²) · Slightly dropped sleeves · Relaxed, oversized unisex fit · Blank product sourced from Nicaragua

Afterdark Signals · Chapter 04

Sodium Hours

03:12. The departures board gives up at the end of the line and posts the only time that matters: 05:00.

03:12. The departures board at the end of the line has stopped pretending. The last train left at 00:41. The N7 pulled out at 01:15. Since then the board has shown one message, in the orange of old streetlights, and it doesn't flicker. NO SERVICE. A small UNTIL. Then 05:00, bigger than everything else on the wall.

Nobody argues with it. A few people stand under it anyway, phones at 4 percent, checking a signal that is only half there. Tower 03 hums on 103.7 FM from somewhere behind the car park. The log under the board stops at 03:12, LAST SIGNAL, and nobody has the key to update it.

You can read it as bad news. Or you can read it as a schedule. The city is closed. You are not. The night runs on a different timetable, and you're on it.

The board isn't broken. It's just honest.

— the design