New School · Dominic Cole

Old school soul. New school tools.

Dominic runs the laser, the airbrush and the epoxy pour at Right Angle. His work moves from wall panels to tracksuits to pieces for the home, and all of it comes out of the same place: a 90s upbringing of Martin and Living Single reruns, Bad Boy on the radio, and slow jams playing while the drawing got finished.

The artist

Don’t let the young face fool you.

Dominic knows the era he pulls from. Ninety-three to ninety-nine, the sitcoms, the barbershop debates, the tape decks, the airbrushed tees on Auburn Avenue. That catalog lives in his line work, and the machines just help him say it louder.

At the bench he is the bridge: Carl cuts joinery by hand, Virgil draws the form, and Dominic burns, paints and pours the surface that makes people stop walking.

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Dominic Cole, new school artist at Right Angle Design Woodworking
The kit

Fire, paint, resin, thread.

The laser

Line art burned straight into the panel — no ink, no transfer, just controlled fire reading a drawing one pass at a time. Depth is dialed in by hand so the shadows sit where a pen would have put them.

Acrylic paint

Bold flats and airbrushed fades laid over and around the burn. Color is where the panel stops being a woodshop object and starts being a poster you can hang, wear or serve on.

Epoxy

Poured clear over the art or pigmented into routed channels. It seals the burn, deepens the color and gives a piece the wet, glassy finish that reads modern from across the room.

Print & transfer

Graphics pulled onto tees, tracksuits, jackets and caps. Same drawings that go on the wood go on the cotton — the wall and the closet finally match.

The work

Wall to wardrobe.

Panels, paddles, jackets and tracksuits. One-off pieces, and the starting point for anything you want built with your own story burned into it.

Laser-engraved panel of a caped hero surrounded by his rogues gallery, burned into natural board

Rogues panel

Laser engraved, natural board left raw

Laser-engraved panel of two comic characters face to face, burned into natural board

Face to face

Single-pass burn, no paint

Red painted wooden paddle with a laser-engraved portrait of a man in a backwards cap

Painted paddle

Acrylic ground, engraved portrait

White jacket back panel printed with a red and blue 1980s horror-musical graphic

Jacket back panel

Apparel graphic, full back

Powder blue tracksuit with bold graphic prints on the jacket and pants

Tracksuit set

Two-piece, print placement by hand

Two printed tracksuit sets in powder blue and pink laid flat side by side

Colorway pair

Blue and pink runs

Colorful transfer print of two winged cherub characters with bows and arrows

Cherubs

Transfer art, apparel and panel

Black and white comic line drawing of a muscular character used as laser source art

Source line work

The drawing before the burn

Want your own burned, painted or poured?

Bring a drawing, a photo, a logo or a lyric. Dominic will tell you whether it lives best on a panel, a board, a jacket or a piece of furniture — then build it.