Foxes, Stags and Wolves: The Art on Our Merch

Look at our designs side by side and you'll see the same things again and again: forests, animals and our name in runic letters. Here's a short guide to what's on them.

What is the lettering on every design?

Our name in thin, angular capitals with a cross at each end of the first line: † HARAKIRI † FOR THE SKY. It's the same lettering that hangs behind us on stage, and it sits at the top or the bottom of almost every design.

Which animals are on the designs?

• The fox. On our Aokigahara design it lies curled up in long grass, a young plant growing over it, drawn in fine pale lines.
• The stags. Two of them lock antlers inside a black diamond on the III: Trauma design, with two daggers and a noose below. Another stag stands at the centre of the Scorched Earth forest.
• The wolf. A hand pulls a wolf's head over a face like a mask, between black spires. It's also the round badge you'll see in our browser tab.
• The eagle. Wings spread wide in a ring of fur and symbols on the Arson design.

What about the forests?

Trees run through our art. The Scorched Earth design is a whole forest of tall trunks, with owls, a fox and a wolf around the stag. Another design is a woodcut forest with a ghost figure and a line of words in serif capitals: "…always haunted by the ghost of you".

Are the designs in colour?

Most are drawn in one or two inks: fine line work, woodcut shading, pale cream or black. Arson and Scorched Earth add rust, purple and brown. Every design comes on black and on white, and the product photos show both, so you can see which suits the art.

See them all: browse every design in the shop.