Everything is in Everything for Everyone is a custom jacquard-knitted scarf produced in an infinite Möbius format. The scarf features the endlessly looping phrase “Everything is in Everything for Everyone,” combining two sources: the collectivist maxim Omnia sunt communia (“everything for everyone”), historically associated with radical economic justice movements, and the metaphysical principle “everything is in everything,” attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras. Within this project the research asked how graphic form might communicate socio-ecological relations through structure rather than representation alone, and how graphic design might operate through mass cultural forms such as clothing rather than conventional graphic media.
The work forms part of the Ecofantasy Kit, a research project investigating how graphic design might connect class politics and ecological ideas through research-through-design, producing artefacts as discursive devices (Mazé & Redström, 2007). A central strand of the research involved identifying a graphic form capable of expressing social ecology through design, treating “form as a way of thinking” (Bertolotti-Bailey, 2014).
The non-orientable Möbius band became the key formal solution, producing a single continuous surface that allows the typographic slogan to repeat infinitely. Developed through iterative prototyping across typographic design, textile formats and jacquard knitting techniques, the structure translates generative graphic design systems into wearable textile form. In this way the project proposes that topological design forms can operate as graphic methods for modelling socio-ecological relations, allowing design artefacts to communicate complexity through structure rather than symbolic representation alone.
The Möbius topology also embodies ecological ideas materially. As Timothy Morton argues in The Ecological Thought, ecological thinking requires recognising a “mesh” of relations without clear boundaries between inside and outside. By translating these ideas into a continuous wearable graphic structure, the work demonstrates how design form can model relations between class politics and ecological systems.
The scarf also incorporates hybrid graphic symbols combining elements of infrastructure, commodities and living organisms (for example helicopter–worm–umbrella or running shoe–praying mantis). These composites visualise the ontological mixture described by Anna Marmodoro in Everything in Everything, suggesting that class relations emerge through ecological assemblages of infrastructures, commodities and organisms rather than existing solely as social categories (Williams, 1973).
A prototype was presented in a public talk at Central Saint Martins in 2023, with several items disseminated through physical sale in 2025. Further dissemination will take place through exhibition at New Glasgow Society, 16–18 July 2025.
