Bred to go down holes after badgers, which explains almost everything about
them. The burrowing instinct never left — hence the tunnelling under every
blanket in the house. The bark is startlingly large for the animal producing
it. They are stubborn in a way that reads as deafness but isn't. And every
dachshund owner becomes, within about a year, extremely serious about not
letting them jump off furniture, because that long back is not a joke.
Meet Otto
Built long. Built confident. Built for a world that keeps getting in the way.
Otto has navigated more furniture legs, door frames and badly timed situations
than anyone on this crew. The shape is impractical. Otto has never once
acknowledged this.
About the design
Black and white photorealistic stencil art, deep shadows, high contrast.
Every character in the crew wears one tiny red clown nose — the only colour
in the entire design.
Printed on garment-dyed heavyweight cotton with an unstructured, relaxed fit.
Why the dachshund works as stencil art
No other breed reduces to a single unmistakable line the way this one does.
The long body and short legs make a shape you can recognise from across a
room, on a shirt, at any size. The long muzzle and floppy ears give the
stencil somewhere to put its shadows.