Timberlin Henderson 420 Run Project

In November 2022, the Stigma Wellness team collaborated with New Mexico based ultra marathon runner Timberlin "Timbo" Henderson for his 420-mile charity run benefitting non-profit organization Every Mother Counts and Fundamental Needs. Starting from Monterey, CA up the coast to San Francisco, Timbo and the Stigma community around the world all joined into the cause to contribute and exceed a total of 475 miles within 5 days. Months before the charity run, I spoke on the phone with Timbo to get some ideas to design him a custom running outfit. I learned that Timbo uses running to inspire communities and positive movements, and to also represent the Navajo Dine (translates to "the people") as human beings and no different from other groups. At the time, the run was scheduled for later in the summer and originally planned for a long sleeve shirt and compression shorts, however, it was later postponed for the fall. Therefore, we settled for compression leggings instead. We established that he needed a light and tight fit, especially to prevent snagging on bushes. We learned that the Navajo uses colors to represent the four directions: white shell for the East, turquoise for the South, yellow for the West and black for the North. Timbo directed us to use Navajo rug patterns as the core pattern design inspiration and - no pun intended - we ran with that. To represent the collaboration between the Stigma brand and Timbo's Navajo pattern direction, we wanted to illustrate Stigma's iconic leaf logo segmented into smaller "woven" geometric shapes, reminiscent of a symmetrical Navajo rug pattern and utilized the fours directional colors to decorate the geometry. Model: Timberlin Henderson Photographer: Anthony Gonzales