June 01, 2009

This past month, FinRoo’s limited edition tees have been turning heads and gaining some well-deserved attention. Check out the articles below from Thrillist and Cottonable. Drum roll please!

Thrillist

Finroo

Like a girl at a party when she sees some skank wearing the same dress, man risks the crushing shame of entering a bar only to see some total herb's also rocking his ill Fantastic Four graphic tee, and doing it better. Spare yourself such ignominy, with garb from Finroo

Launched in January, but only now actually shipping stuff, 'Roo prints user-submitted tee designs in limited runs of 100, ensuring that you'll be the only person in the room expressing your individuality thanks to somebody else's hard work. Any submitted art that passes quality assessment and copyright infringement screening goes up for sale on the site, available on uber-soft bamboo tees printed w/ their run number, and with its relative prominence (or lack thereof) on the homepage determined by a combination of metrics including user votes, total purchases, and page hits, a mind boggling computation that would take hours by hand, but thanks to Fin's supercomputer is now refreshed every 30 minutes. Once a shirt's sold out it disappears from the site, ensuring fresh designs're always getting pushed to the front, and for every tee sold $4 is kicked to the artist, with another buck going to a charity the artist's choosing. So yeah, they get $5.

Fin's jump-started their collection by handpicking graphic design, tattoo, and graffiti artists to submit their works, which include jobs like a grenade w/ a smiley-face pin, a toddler seemingly being eaten by a stroller, and a lone pair of sunglasses, which you'll wish you could pull off and wear once you notice some stud wearing a shirt emblazoned with Fantastic Five.

Check out all the dope, lim-ed chest sleeves at Finroo.com

 
Launched May 12, 2009
http://www.thrillist.com/limited-edition/finroo

 

 

Cottonable

Finroo, Bamboo-made Artsy T-shirts Won't Run Forever

Posted by Rangga

Finroo is a graphic T-shirt company specialized in producing limited run tees in batches of 100. Not only limited edition, these tee are actually printed with number of the design inside the garment itself. Design-wise, they're doing good with John Fitzpatrick tees dominate latest collection -- followed by other Eric Carter, Clint Ozturk, Horsten Schmidt and some more talented graphic artists.

Besides work with up and coming artists, Finroo prints on high quality bamboo and organic cotton blanks and donate a dollar to charity for every sale -- average t-shirt prices is $34.99 (thanks God they don't donate 99 cents per T-shirt). Another thing I really like from Finroo is that users/visitors/fans feedback to tool of every T-shirts. You can give 1-5 rating of every tee in term of color, design, placement and overall rating as well as feedback form of what you like or dislike from each tee. Even if you don't feel like buying a T-shirt, spending some times being T-shirt critic is not so bad either.

Too bad, I don't see any other color of tees except white; they should, next time, print those designs on non-white tees. Hey, that's my first suggestion as tee critic... Don't copy my words, please!

 

Launched May 11, 2009
http://www.cottonable.com/2009/05/finroo-bamboo-made-artsy-t-shirts-wont.html

 

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