After being disappointed by the current state of fashion, Josh Scholl started his own company that also gives back to the community


“If there’s something that I want to do, I just kind of do it,” Josh Scholl says. His latest venture is a freshly-launched T-shirt company called Seed of Servo, and it's taking a different approach to the business: The T-shirts from the company’s debut line were designed by autistic children, and 10 percent of the profits will benefit the autism research organization Autism Speaks. Scholl’s inspiration for his products was his experience at his day job in public relations for Camelot, a treatment center for children with special needs, including those with autism. “I was noticing their pieces with art therapy and it just spoke so loudly,” he says. “It had a lot of beauty and said so much with just little squiggly lines and splotches.” With that realization, a line of T-shirts was born. The shirts are colorful and deceptively simple in design. But for many of the children that were involved in creating the line, it was also somewhat therapeutic. “Because some of these kids are not verbal and they can’t speak, it can be a way of communication,” he says, referencing one of the T-shirts created by a non-verbal boy who used a bingo dauber to make a splotchy design down the side of one shirt. In the future, Scholl plans on releasing some of his own designs. When or what shape that line will take is still unknown. One thing he knows for sure, though: “What I’m definitely going to do is just always give back,” he says. – Diana Bae