about us

not that you asked

Let’s Die A Little is a burnout cult disguised as a brand.

Feel like you’re trapped in a system you didn’t choose but can’t escape?
Yeah, us too.

After a particularly cursed decade in the corporate trenches, these designs were expelled from us like venom from a snakebite. Graphic exorcisms of capitalism poisoning the bloodstream. Every new piece we make feels like clawing back a tiny fragment of our soul.

We make shirts, stickers, and slow collapses for people who know the system is rigged and still show up anyway.
Not because we believe in it. Because the rent’s due.

We’re less Live Laugh Love and more Labor Lease Lust.
Hand-drawn, heavily ironic, and suspiciously well-designed for a bunch of skeletons in office chairs.

And in all sincerity?
Dropping the “we” for a minute, this brand is how I get my art into the world. It’s how I hope to connect with anyone it might resonate with.

Anyone who sees themselves in the ghost, the glitch, the little guy giving capitalism the finger under the desk.

The dream is to one day shift away from print-on-demand and into high-quality, locally sourced production here in Detroit, where the brand lives. Maybe employ someone? Work for myself and leave the grindset in the rear-view?

If that sounds like a future you’d be willing to help me manifest, even just a little,
Join the cult.

Let’s die a little, together.

Melvin

The LDAL Spirit of Burnout. Melvin is the skeletal embodiment of your fourth Zoom call that totally could have been an email. He haunts fluorescent-lit offices and Slack threads that say “just circling back.” He’s been here forever. He’ll never leave. Mostly because he can't afford to.

Wearing existential despair like a company hoodie, Melvin represents every overworked, under-recognized human ghosting through late-stage capitalism.
He's not angry. He’s just doing the job. Dying a little. Every. Single. Day.

Blaize

You’d think Blaize climbed the corporate ladder, but he simply dropkicked it out of the way and built an elevator powered by layoffs. His teeth are polished with third world outsourced labor. His tie might be tight but his morals are loose.

Blaize lays off half the workforce and simply assigns the work to the other half.
Blaize posts unhinged hustle quotes on LinkedIn and calls it leadership.
Blaize knows AI will destroy the world, but think of the shareholder value!

Blaize is the system… with better hair.