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Just wanted to let you know that Finroo was announced as "I am the Trend" clothing company of the week!
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Artist only in DEPTH faq
Q: if I post a design (that fits in the 14" by 16") area, what are the limitations?
A: We print everything using the latest DTG methods. That means that as long as it fits in the measurements and is RBG based, it will print EXACTLY like your mockup. (Sometimes it varies due to computer monitor screens)
Q: Can you do edge printing? Wrap arounds? Or full screen prints?
A: We can't do any of those, but were constantly trying and experiment and should be shortly. If your design does go to the edge we will try as hard as we can to get it there but can't make any guarantees (it may be a few centimeters off)
Q: Are there any color restrictions?
A: No, you are not limited on the amount of colors you can use. LET IT SHINE!
Q: when will you offer other T shirts then white?
A: at the end of August we will be printing on grey burnout shirts
Q: If I have any more questions what’s the best way to reach us
A: email blake at blake@finroo.com
Here at Finroo you ask and we deliver. Many of you have asked for an easy tool that will allow you to "drop" your products via your own blogs, blogs of others, and embed your AMAZING works into other peoples websites. That's why the coders here at finroo slaved over our computers to give you a tool. Here is how finroo helps you promote your own products via the "blogsphere"
1. Go to some of your favorite products and copy the "blog this" (this will give you an awesome product view of that ONE product on the page)
2. Go to your blog or where ever you want to STAMP your product and embed the HTML code on your page.
3. Shine shine shine! Whenever someone sees your beauty, they click and you win!
Facebook has been driving a ton of traffic to the finroo site. Here are some tips on how to sell your products via facebook:
1. Go to some of your favorite products and copy the link at the top
2. go to www.facebook.com and log in
3. Past the link in your status page
4. It might show other images (images that are currently on your page). Scroll around until you find your product
5. Click submit! this will make your shirt go live your whole facebook community
We get a tremendous amount of face book traffic and sales. Speaking with artsits these are some of the best practices to get your stuff out there. If you have any tips/questions/or concerns. Let us know! We are your partners and want you to succeed!
Our latest feature artist is Chris Peters from Saskatchewan Canada. With a consistent string of amazing designs Chris caught our eye and we caught up with him to talk about programs, influence, and… The bachelorette?
Blake Curwen: So, first off... Tell me just a little about your background; Where your from, how you got into design work.
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Chris Peters: Well I'm from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. I've been professionally employed for around 4 years now, just on portfolio. Like many other computer related artists; I'm self taught.
BC: So self taught... What kind of programs did you start with, and what are you using now?
CP: Originally I started with GIMP on Linux making custom background and icons. After getting into gaming I switched to Windows and started making custom textures where I eventually got efficient at photoshop. Then I discovered tutorials. Tutorials are the single most effective thing I have come across as a learning tool for anything computer related.
I guess once I grew up I started to like "classier" art and ended up doing a lot of 3D/Photoshop battles with other artists as a way of testing my own abilities and to gather inspiration. As for the jump to vector I'm kinda hazy, but I think I started using Fireworks in my schools graphic art class and just played with it alot. Upon looking for tutorials I found awesome communities around scalable graphics and ended up favoring the new cmyk look. Since then I’ve got into Illustrator hardcore and at one point hadn’t touched photoshop in 6 months. Right now I actively use Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, and CorelDRAW.
BC: 'A Splash Of Love' is one of my favorite designs on the site, and inspired by your girl friend. Things must be going well, yes?
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CP: Yes actually, we just got a house together! She also insisted on getting number 1 of that shirt.
BC: Congrats on the home. I was going to say, maybe I can get Eric (our CEO) to throw her one on the house!
CP: Haha! that would of been even cooler.
BC: I'm starting to see a lot of art done 'live' at music performances... If you had to create a design live as a back drop to a show, who would the performer be?
CP: Probably Daft Punk.
BC: If we could get a celebrity to wear one of your Finroo shirts, who would it be, and which design?
CP: Probably Rob Dyrdek (From Rob & Big) and 'Abstract Life' for the Tee
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BC: Final question...You are from Canada... Who will win the Bachelorette?
CP: LOL... I was gonna ask my girlfriend! I dunno, that one guy. (that’s how much I’ve seen of that show... "that one guy")
BC: Then you are a better man than I!
Stay tuned for a new batch of designs from Chris in the near future!
Click here to check out the Chris's whole collection
Hey Guys, every week we are going to tips on how to sell/market/get your products showed to the world! This week we added a new "tweet this" icon on your product pages. By simply going to your profile page and click on your products you will find this new button next to the "limited edition" logo. Once you click it it will bring you to your twitter page will it will broadcast that product to the world!
Click on all your products and let your twitter friends know how amazing your work is! Twitter works and last week alone we got over 1500 hits just from people going to twitter.
Go ahead...try it NOW
This past month, FinRoo’s limited edition tees have been turning heads and gaining some well-deserved attention. Check out the exclusive interview with T shirt magazine:
Finroo is a clothing brand that produces t-shirts printed in limited quantities, where every garment is numbered. “The chances of you seeing someone wearing the same design are slim to none”, according the people of Finroo as stated in their about section. The t-shirt designs are created by artists who submit there designs in hopes of getting them printed. I interview Eric Yohay of Finroo about the company.
MC: How did you go about starting Finroo? What steps did it take to finally launch your brand?
EY: We started with a group of 5 artists and said “what are you missing?” They explained to me that although there was outlets for them to get their artwork out, they wanted more feedback and instructive criticisms on top of monetary rewards. We then created a dashboard that gave them the statics and data that they asked for.
The first step was deciding from the beginning that our shirts,, from the start needed to be TOP quality and needed to blow people away the first time they felt it. We then experimented with factories from all over the world and finally settled on one in Turkey that made it just right.
MC: What made you initially decide to have your designs printed on bamboo t-shirts?
EY: We experimented with a ton of different materials (silk, cotton blends, organic cotton, bamboo, tight cotton, distressed cotton) but nothing really was what we were looking for. We needed something that was not only soft and comfortable but needed to have something that would hold an amazing print and would make the colors POP.
This ended up being 70% bamboo 30% organic cotton blend.
MC: When starting your company, did you design any of the t-shirts personally, just to get some products out there? Or did you get artists to design Finroo t-shirts from the beginning?
EY: From the get go, our products have been from our artists. We have never submitted anything and never will because we don’t want our artists to think we would compete with them. We are lucky to have the artists we have and we are getting more and more talented artists every day.
MC: How do you select which t-shirt designs get printed and sold through your site? Is there a certain process of evaluation?
EY: Yes, there is a one step process. We only print what gets purchased. Everything at Finroo is printed on demand.
MC: What’s the biggest challenge you ever faced while running Finroo? How did you overcome this challenge?
EY: The biggest challenge we have still to this today is that we didn’t want to be just another t-shirt company. We wanted to stand above the noise, swim against the tide. We wanted to sell wearable art rather then a commodity so we took a lithographic approach of numbering all of our products. All of our products are in limited edition batches of 100 and each garment is numbered with its actual number in production.
This is a huge logistical challenge but we felt that we owed it to our customer to spend the extra time and energy to make sure they got a real piece of art. This company started because I walked into a bar and saw someone wearing the same shirt I had.
It won’t happen again……..
MC: Are you looking to grow your company into a huge brand one day, or just keep it small, yet profitable? How do you plan on maintaining your brand concept of limited quantities, while growing your company?
EY: We plan on going for gold! We are going to grow this company as fast as possible because we owe it to our customers and our artists. Its hard to do when your based on limited edition quantities, but that’s why were are going to release different pallets such as burn out shirts, sport jackets, and limited edition surf boards.
MC: What can we expect from Finroo in the upcoming years?
EY: You can expect more pallets for limited edition art. More exclusiveness (we are releasing runs of 50 as well as 25 at the end of the month), and more sexyness!
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