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Sylvania resident Micah Lindenberger has partnered with Matt Taylor, of Oregon, to start their own t-shirt design business, Devicious.

Lindenberger said he had the idea to start an online t-shirt store because he had seen many other designers selling t-shirts and thought to himself, “I’ve been screen printing for three years and I’ve made t-shirts for friends and local bands in the past, so why not sell my designs to the public? It was always too much work by myself to run an online store, and none of my friends where designers so I had forgotten the idea until I had a talk with my coworker Matt about starting one up.”

Taylor thought this was a great idea and had always wanted to do tshirts designs as well but had no means of getting them printed.Since the both had the same interest, the two began working to pull a business together.

“Matt designed the logo, because he has a natural talent for creating awesome logos” Lindenberger said. “The t-shirts will be an urban-style design.  We are trying to create t-shirts that would be considered a work of art, but you can actually wear it, so for our first release of t shirts we will probably stray away from the normal funny text style shirts where you can find everywhere, and concentrate on creating shirts that are completely different from the norm.”

“We got the name Devicious after throwing around several different ideas. We thought maybe we could take a cool phrase from one of our favorite songs and work that into a name, then Matt had the idea to create our own word, so I threw out the name Devicious a mix between delicious and vicious the name stuck and thats what we hope to bring to the customer a delicious t-shirt design with a slice of viciousness”.

They are hoping the company will grow with products as time goes on. “We hope to expand to selling girls canvas totes, printed canvas wallets, and zip-up hoodies,” Taylor said. “Our target audience is older high school and college students that are into collecting t-shirts.” The company will ship t-shirts all over the U.S.

Both Lindenberger and Taylor currently work for Verso Group in Toledo, which is a well known entertainment company. Verso Group also owns Dynamic Design USA, where the two will print their shirts. Matt and Micah are also attending Bowling Green State University for bachelor degrees in Visual Communications Technology.