kat friedmann

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 July 24, 2026

FINAL

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Pressure x Silver Priest

When Logan, the founder of Pressure, asked if I’d be interested in a Pressure x Silver Priest collab, my immediate answer was a resounding DUH!!! However, when I read “Kat’s full creative control!” at the bottom of the inquiry, a chill shot down my spine. What a horrible and exciting thing for a designer to hear. Thankfully, I was not left entirely to my own devices. Logan likes for Pressure drops to reflect his current interests in pop-culture: music, games, genres, etc., and at this particular time his interests lie in fantasy and hardcore. I could work with that.

In addition to considering Logan’s interests, I began to explore one of mine: pixel art. As pixel art is deeply ingrained in fantasy-related media, games, and art, I now had a relevant container to work with — guardrails for an otherwise boundless project. Typically, graphic design is a bottomless pit of revisions, an endless abyss of opportunity. Some designers find this to be of comfort, I am not always one of them. This method of image-making forced limitations on that abyss. At least now my blank page had a grid, a level of rigidity and constraint rather than an entire lack of it.

I used Logan’s interest in Magic: The Gathering as a jumping-off point for my entry into pixel art. As the game consists of a very specific card design, the design process became pretty easy despite making everything in Photoshop. I created pixelated versions of our logos (pixel by pixel) and we assigned creature types to our brands: Nightmare for Pressure and Angel for Silver Priest.

I made the Pressure and Silver Priest cards on a teeeeny-tiny grid (79x110px!), and later enlarged them to design the text to be more legible. On another note, the card descriptions can be decoded, though I’m not sure anyone’s picked up on that yet.

LEFT: Magic: The Gathering card back
RIGHT: PxSP Collab: pixel art card back

remaking pressure’s logo in pixels

My exploration of pixel art was well worth the learning curve. A couple of youtube videos made the project so much easier: This tutorial taught me how to prepare a Photoshop file for creating pixel art, and this tutorial taught me how to make cleaner curves when it truly seems impossible.

I am so grateful to Logan for the opportunity to collab with Pressure, for allowing me room to play with new techniques, and to highlight my chainmail work while doing so! I am also so grateful to everyone who purchased a 1-of-1 item — I still can’t believe they sold out within 24 hours?! If you’re interested in purchasing an item from our collab, Pressure has 2 t-shirts forever available and made-to-order on the site: the pixel logo tee and the cards tee.

Pressure x Silver Priest — Clothing Drop

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