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Coffee Couture

Love tattoos, but not ready to commit to getting one inked on your skin? Opt for a mug or T-shirt from Saratoga-born Death Wish Coffee’s tattoo series instead. The brand’s 2022 initiative tasked nine tattoo artists from across the country with creating coffeeinspired designs to feature on merchandise. While the series highlighted the work of artists from as far away as California, it culminated in the home of the now national coffee brand: Saratoga Springs, featuring local tattoo artist Billy Harrigan.

“The pairing of Death Wish and tattoo-ers absolutely makes sense,” says Harrigan, whose design for the series is a death’s-head moth with coffee plant wings and the Death Wish skull on its back. “It’s a company that puts itself where the once-fringe tats so raven Death Wish Coffee weirdos—comic book know-it-alls, cosplayers, merchandise featuring metal-heads and tattoo artists—are. And let’s (from top) Sacred be honest: Everyone in those groups loves how Heart by Derick Montez a black T-shirt with a skull on it brings out the color in their eyes.” of San Francisco, CA; The Death Moth by Billy Harrigan of

You can shop the tattoo series collection Saratoga Springs; and online at deathwishcoffee.com, or go all in Raven + Scythe by for something more permanent—say, a design Emmanuel Mendoza of that won national acclaim via a popular coffee Columbus, OH. brand. “Death’s-head moths are a pretty common and always-cool design in the tattoo world,” Harrigan says. “So I wouldn’t be surprised if a coffeelover asked me to tattoo it on them eventually.”

—NATALIE MOORE