Latitude 30
A few years ago we decided to create a t-shirt brand with the focus hand carved designs. The city we came from in Brazil, Porto Alegre is located at 30° South, and we are stablished in Austin which is also 30° but North, what a cool coincidence, that's why we came up with this name, Latitude 30 Design.
Printmaking
We started printmaking back in the 90's in Brazil, mainly Lithography. When we moved to Austin in 2013, we started doing Etching (Engraving), you can check some of the Etching work under Prints. Later we have been focused on Linocut (Relief) t-shirt designs.
Soaring
We have been involved with aviation since 1983, doing foot launch hang gliding in Brazil. We also did paragliding for a year, then came back to hang gliding. In 2015 we shifted our focus to sailplane, which has been our passion since then. Every year is better than the previous, it's such an amazing sport, we are looking forward to start Blogging some of the Cross Country stories.
Photography
We use photography to get inspiration for new designs. While soaring we document flight sceneries. We also use photography to capture steps of the printmaking processes, which include relief and intaglio.