hello / aloha
Prints are our raison d'être.
sustainability in full color
Language of the Birds is a print driven brand founded in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Our current studio is a barn in Upstate New York. Sustainability and aloha are the heart of our manufacturing approach. We design all our prints and provide radical transparency in our production.
We support a MTO (made to order) and limited batch production model. We make most of our apparel in our studio or work with small US factories and local individual sewers. For some items we work with non US based manufacturers. Manufacture origin is described on each product page.
There is no such thing as a perfectly made item. Creation is by necessity a messy and wasteful affair. We try and meet the trifecta of necessity, material considerations and workforce to achieve a sustainable and ethical product.
Our prints are in collection at the RISD Museum.
founder
Tsia Carson is a designer, author, and teacher. For over two decades she was a partner at the design firm Flat. She is a Pantone Spotlight Artist for 2024’s Color of the Year . She has taught/critiqued/lectured at Yale School of Art, RISD, and Parsons. A born and bred New Yorker, inexplicably she considers Hawaiʻi home.