eleve”s premiere POETIC PRINTS launches with our very first story-designed line, “Memorial Mugs.” Our first feature, a custom-designed STILL STANDING mug to memorialize those we’ve lost to addiction. Priced at $27 (Forever 27 Club) to honor those who didn’t make it out of the grip of addiction alive, and to celebrate those who are—somehow, against all odds—still standing. These mugs are not about tragedy, but survival. Every sip is a quiet, defiant celebration of the fact that our pain doesn’t have to win. Whether you yourself or someone you love has been touched by addiction, we raise our nonalcoholic bevvies to the hot hope still burning inside those who are still alive today.

The black detailing in this design represents the dark pit so many of us or loved ones have fallen into (RIP Dave Savary 1988-2020 and Sam Howe 1988-2024). In their honor and memory, we fight to remain.

A portion of these initial pieces are kept exclusively as “badges of honor,” gifted to eleVe’s future dedicated patrons and awarded to our “still-standing scholars” who courageously choose to create something new out of their pasts and pain.