WORLD FILE — KP-00 45.50° N — MTL → EVERYWHERE STATUS: THE FOUNDING WORLD

Keep
Pushing.

The mantra from my skate days became a character, a brand, a studio. Collections, a Carhartt collab, shops in France and Montréal — the world every other world on this site descends from.

The Keep Pushing character pushing on a board, yellow on bone
ClientKeep Pushing — own brand
ScopeBrand / Collections / Collabs
RoleFounder & artist
Years2015 → 2020
The world

The world
zero.

Keep Pushing started as a mantra — no matter how hard the run gets, don't stop — and became an illustration series, then a wearable brand with its own design language, drop rhythm and points of sale. Carried in select shops in France and at Off the Hook in Montréal.

I treated it as its own creative space, not studio merch: three to four collections translating the graphic language into tees, hoodies and caps. The brand landed a collaboration with Carhartt — proof the philosophy traveled beyond my own circle. And the character kept working: it's the same world Adidas came shopping in, the same piece painted in Romeo's stairwell.

"Adidas came for it. Romeo's put it on a can. The studio is named after it. One world, compounding since 2015."

Keep Pushing — the founding world

The characters printed in a magazine, next to the sketchbook they came from
A pile of Keep Pushing stickers, eight-ball character
01 — Process

A brand,
run for real.

Working documents — raw
Pencil roughs — skater characters searched out on paper
The sketchbook open on the desk, pen resting on the page
The character in clean line, signed MEKA.
Early hand-lettered logotype study in the sketchbook

Running the brand meant doing all of it: design, production, drops, wholesale, community. Years of doing it for other people, then doing it on my own terms — the discipline that now runs the studio.

02 — The work

Out in
the wild.

Final result — real life
What's Keep Pushing — the manifesto panel and the full cast of characters WHAT'S KEEP PUSHING
adidas Skateboarding tee — the character drawn into the trefoil lockup ADIDAS SKATEBOARDING
Have a Slice Day tee worn out in the field HAVE A SLICE DAY
Mark Gonzales tribute print on white, adidas Skateboarding GONZ TRIBUTE
The Keep Pushing character pushing in a loop, animated THE CHARACTER — IN MOTION
Model sheet — nine poses of the character in clean line
The character tattooed on a forearm
Blue tee with the pink Keep Pushing logo panel
The character painted in red across a shop window
KP-00 / FOUNDING WORLDKeep Pushing
03 — In the wild

Worn
by strangers.

Out of the studio, into the street
Keep Pushing drawn as a black metal logotype on acid yellow
Keep Pushing deck — red panel graphic on black
Not all those who wander are lost tee worn from the back
California tee worn in the pizza shop
Printed tees stacked on the desk next to the screen
At the desk in the studio, artwork on the walls
Why it matters

This is the asset: a world strong enough that global brands come to it. Adidas licensed its energy. Romeo's hung it in a museum. The studio runs on it.

3+Collections designed, produced, sold
1Carhartt collab — the mantra traveled
2Countries stocking it — France + Canada