About ORQEVA
ORQEVA makes enamel pins and embroidered patches in themed series, and the jackets, bags, caps and banners to wear them on. Every carrier has the same stitched grid, so a layout can change as often as you do.
A pin is a signal
Most pins end up in a drawer, because there is nowhere good to put them. We started from the other end: first the place, then the pin. Every ORQEVA carrier has a stitched grid of 4 cm squares with a marked centre, so a pin always has a slot waiting for it.
A jacket stops being finished the day you buy it. You pin a layout, wear it for a week, then move three pins to your bag and try something else. The grid stays; the signal changes.
Drawn in series
Our pins and patches come out in themed series. Each one starts from a single idea about broken signals: a broadcast dropping out, a pixel that never lights up, a face between the scanlines, a flower that grew out of a corrupted file. Everything is drawn on squared paper first, in a strict palette of glitch green, magenta, white and black, with the stepped edges of pixel art.
- S01 Signal Lost — test cards, antennas, static.
- S02 Dead Pixel — moths, hearts, cursors and hourglasses made of squares.
- S03 Scanline Ghosts — ghosts, old monitors, rewinding tapes.
- S04 Error Bloom — roses, daisies, mushrooms and beetles, slightly out of register.
What we do not make
No borrowed logos, no copies of other artists’ work, and no insignia of armies, police forces, governments or sports teams. Every design is our own.
- 01/ One gridEvery carrier uses the same 4 cm squares with a reinforced centre. Nothing is designed for one product only.
- 02/ Original artworkEvery pin and patch is drawn in-house for its series. No borrowed logos, no insignia of armies, police, governments or teams.
- 03/ Nothing is finalA layout is a draft. Unpin, swap, give one away, start a new one.