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Sons of Arthritis – Ibuprofen Chapter: Humor Meets Lifestyle

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A parody motorcycle club graphic design reading 'Sons of Arthritis — Ibuprofen Chapter,' styled like a classic biker patch, available on Redbubble.
Sons of Arthritis — Ibuprofen Chapter

If you know me, you know I love art with a sense of humour. And one of my best-selling designs right now is this "Sons of Arthritis — Ibuprofen Chapter" graphic on Redbubble. It's a playful tribute to the classic biker aesthetic, with a punchline anyone who's lived a few decades will instantly recognise.

Why Biker Parody Designs Work

The iconic motorcycle-club patch — the rocker, the centre logo, the chapter line at the bottom — is one of the most instantly recognisable visual languages in American pop culture. Whether you got it from Sons of Anarchy, from films like Easy Rider, or from spotting actual Harley-Davidson club patches in the wild, the shape is unmistakable. Which makes it perfect raw material for parody. Swap "Anarchy" for "Arthritis," swap "Sonoma Chapter" for "Ibuprofen Chapter," and the joke practically writes itself.

The whole genre of parody biker patches works because the original aesthetic is so confident, so unapologetic, so committed to its image, that any gentle subversion lands hard. You're not making fun of bikers — you're making fun of how seriously we all take our identities, ourselves, and the slow betrayal of our own knees.

Who I Made It For

Honestly? I made it for me, and for everyone like me. I'm at the age where I still feel like I could probably ride a motorcycle across the country — I just can't ride a bicycle to the corner store without thinking about my lower back afterwards. The kid who thought he was invincible is still in there, but he now consults with WebMD before doing anything physical.

This design is for anyone who:

  • Once owned a leather jacket and now owns a heating pad
  • Took up biker culture in college and now takes ibuprofen with breakfast
  • Has a friend or partner who refuses to admit they need reading glasses
  • Knows that a "warm-up" before yard work is now a non-negotiable

It pairs nicely with the rest of my Active Seniors collection — the skateboarding granny, the scooter-riding heart granny, the grandpa catching air on a board. Different art styles, same affectionate spirit. We're all in this getting-older thing together, and we might as well laugh about it.

Available on a Range of Products

The Sons of Arthritis design is available on Redbubble across the usual range:

  • T-shirts and hoodies — the bestseller, for obvious reasons
  • Mugs — for the morning coffee that helps you face the day, and the afternoon tea that helps you survive it
  • Stickers — for laptops, water bottles, motorcycle helmets, or the lid of the ibuprofen bottle itself
  • Posters and prints — to add a little humour to a garage workshop or man cave

A Great Gift for the Right Person

Where this design really lives is as a gift. If you have a friend, partner, parent, or sibling who appreciates biker culture, has a self-deprecating sense of humour, and quietly groans when they stand up from the couch — this is the shirt. It's a way of saying "I see you, I love you, and I find you hilarious" all at once.

I've had buyers tell me they ordered it for a 60th birthday, a retirement party, and a Father's Day gift

👉 Shop the Sons of Arthritis collection on Redbubble

View all my work on Redbubble by searching @kornkobart.

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Do Not Disconnect - The Real Digital Divide

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The fly in the ointment, Opito Bay, around 2007. This post was originally published in November, 2007. Almost two decades on, the photograph and the argument both feel — if anything — more relevant than they did then. I have updated this post lightly in May, 2026, some 19 years later! The Photograph I was on holiday in Opito Bay on New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula, sitting on the couch in the place we were staying at. A friend's iPod was resting on the coffee table, on top of a copy of The Economist from March 2005, whose cover story happened to be titled "The Real Digital Divide." A fly landed on the iPod's click wheel and stayed there. I reached for my camera, took the shot, and edited it later in Photoshop to give it the grungy, oversaturated look you see above. The fly on the iPod along with "The Real Digital Divide" struck me — immediately, and with a kind of emb...
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Samoan Youth

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This young man was preparing with his friends for his moment of fame on the stage at the Samoan Village at the Polynesian dance festival called Pasifika in Auckland in March this year. Samoan Youth Canon EOS 20D 1/30sec at f/20 ISO 200 Canon 70-300mm lens at 300mm
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Anza-Borrego Wildflowers

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Anza Borrego Desert State Park California Wildflowers This cluster of wildflowers is typical of the flowers in Plum Canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert this spring. Because of the dry and harsh environment, most of the flowers are tiny like the three in this photo. But what they lack in size, they make up for in color. It's pretty difficult to try and identify all these flowers, but I'm pretty sure the white one is Desert Pincushion. Help out if you can. I've been using the CalFlora.org website to try and identify the flowers in this series.
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