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Hand-Picked Links — February 2026

How long winter? We can only take so much. Brand New Conference Identity It was our pleasure to attend Brand New Conference last year in our home town. As usual, an outrageous level of attention to detail by Armin and Bryony, and the venue was spectacular. Read the Story Wes

Cotton Bureau Shirt Club

We’re ringing in 2026 at Cotton Bureau with a new (old) idea: limited edition screen printed tees. First up, an absolute classic from Tyler Anthony just in time for curling (ha) up on the couch to watch the winter games, it’s USA All the Way. Support Cotton Bureau,

A Colorful Christmas Collection

Today’s the last day of the year to order on demand tees shipping in time for holidays (use code LASTCHANCE25 for free shipping), but that doesn’t mean it’s too late for us to squeeze one more gift under the Christmas tree. We’ve been hard at work

Cotton Bureau Holiday High Five 2025 is Live

We’ve given away big prizes in the past. Those were nice, but you never knew if you would win. This year, we want to *guarantee* you walk away happy. We’ve never tried anything like this before. To be honest, it’s a big risk for us, but we

The Official 2025 Cotton Bureau Holiday Gift Guide

Welcome to the 2025 Cotton Bureau Holiday Gift Guide! We’re back again to share unique gifts from people who truly care about making things that last. Now, we’ll get out of the way and let them speak for themselves. Nomad [E] 2 by Work Louder The Nomad [E]

Feature Friday #030 — Mark Caneso

Where in the world is Mark Caneso? Catching up with the prolific artist and type designer as he settles in after his most recent relocation. P.S. Get 20% off everything in Mark’s Cotton Bureau store now through Sunday, November 30 with coupon code featurefriday20 at checkout. Mark! Let’

Hand-Picked Links — November 19, 2025

Four quick mid-week links. Snatch A revolutionary way to put a strap on pretty much anything made from fabric (like a bag) from our very good friends Che-Wei and Taylor. My favorite part (other than the all-around simplicity, elegance, and creativity of the system)? The AirTag-ready embed slot. Shop CW&

Hand-Picked Links — November 12, 2025

Are we back? We’re back. Gunther and Otto Originally published in 2014 by the BBC, Gunther Holtorf (1937–2021) and his Mercedes G-Wagon, Otto, covered more than 500,000 miles and visited 179 countries (including North Korea) during their 20+ years together, encountering diseases, dictators, and dromedaries face-to-face. Read

Feature Friday #029 — Tom Hillmeyer

Hiking enthusiast, digital ninja, and designer extraordinaire, Tom Hillmeyer has traveled both terrain and industry. His career as a technical director demands maximum adaptability, a challenge he's built for. Today's chat covers his all-encompassing role, B-52 Bombers, and why Dwayne Wade is persona non grata '

Feature Friday #028 — Daniel Saludares

Hey Daniel! Welcome to our Designer Interview series, we're happy to have ya. Let's start with the basics. What have you been up to? Skateboarding! To be honest, I had been struggling to focus creatively and to stay motivated. For a while I just felt stuck.

Feature Friday #027 — Steve DeCusatis

Jack of all trades Steve Decusatis joins us this week to talk about snowboarding, Europe, and Philly's penchant for producing top tier design talent.  Browse his site to discover more of his work and enjoy 20% off all of his on-demand items through Sunday, August 17 with coupon

The needle just dropped.

Big news! While we started Cotton Bureau over a decade ago with a simple pre-order campaign model for screenprinted tees, each year we’ve been able to grow our offerings, gradually increasing not only the ways to sell (adding stock and on demand) but the also types of products available,

On demand stickers are live.

While we’re not in the habit of pre-announcing new products and features, once we’re getting close, we do occasionally drop a hint or two. When you see the timeline for on demand stickers, you’ll understand why it’s best to ship first, talk later. The first public

Cotton Bureau Turns 12

It’s Throwback Thursday, and we’re tossing it allll the way back to the mid-90s with some freaking good tees. We’re not going to dwell on the fact that we’re 40 years old now and that, since launching in 2013, Cotton Bureau has been both the foreground

Feature Friday #026 — Grant Shepley

From phonograph DJs to skateboarding astronauts, his breadth of creativity is unrivaled on Cotton Bureau. You know him as Gamma Ray, but now get to know Grant, the artist behind your favorite designs. See more on his Instagram and enjoy 20% off all his on-demand items through Sunday, June 1

Hand-Picked Links — April 16, 2025

Howdy, howdy, howdy. We’ve got a few videos for you today, a Frank Lloyd Wright original*, a sports story (of course), and a Bookstarter that’s ending tomorrow. RiverRock House It depends on who you ask, but there may be a new Frank Lloyd Wright house. Based on plans

Cotton Bureau Custom

Before Cotton Bureau was a twinkle in anyone’s eye, Jay and I started a little web design shop here in Pittsburgh called Full Stop Interactive. This was back in early 2009, around the time of what some people now call “The Global Financial Crisis”. (No reason in particular to

Hand-Picked Links — April 2, 2025

Hey, everyone, it’s the one-year anniversary of Hand-Picked Links. The first edition was published on April 1, 2024. There were a total of 17 links posts in the past year. Without further ado, please enjoy this week’s #content. Stay Gold, America In January, long-time friend of Cotton Bureau

Feature Friday #025 — Martha Rich

We’re talking with the inimitable Martha Rich today. You can follow Martha on Instagram, shop her Cotton Bureau store, or browse her full art collection on her personal site. Don’t forget, all Martha’s shirts, hats, and more are 20% off now through Friday, April 4 using code

Hand-Picked Links — March 19, 2025

In like a lion, out like a lamb. It sure has been nice to get some sun and warm weather in Western PA. Here’s a look at some of the most interesting things we saw over the last few weeks. Creative Works WEST Guess who’s the official t-shirt

Feature Friday #024 — Jack Perkins

We’re talking with Jack Perkins today, basketball junkie and illustrator extraordinaire. You can follow Jack on Twitter and Instagram, or shop Jack’s Cotton Bureau collection and get 20% off all products now through Friday, March 21 using code featurefriday20 at checkout. Yo, Jack! Glad we are finally making

Feature Friday #023 — Wayne Minnis

International man of mystery Wayne Minnis sits down with us to discuss his inspiration, adventures, and… ties to the New World Order? You won't find many personal details online (coincidence?) but there are plenty simple and charming designs to spare. Read on to get the scoop. Typically I

Hand-Picked Links — February 21, 2025

Welcome to the third hand-picked links of the year. Somehow this edition is all food, movies, and sports. Got a hot tip? Send it in, Jerome. Snacks & Cereals of 2024 Bad timing for me — currently in the middle of an annual dietary reset 😞 — but if you’re looking for

Under Pressure.

Having owned a business now for more than 15 years, it occurs to me that what I subconsciously think it should feel like and what it in fact on a daily basis does feel like are quite opposite. It seems like by now it ought to feel essential, a fundamental

Feature Friday #022 — Ben Beaudoin

Welcome back to Feature Friday! Let's all give a warm welcome to Ben Beaudoin. Ben has been a friend of Cotton Bureau for a few years now and we couldn't be happier to have him. Read on to hear what happens behind the scenes at some

Hand-Picked Links — January 24, 2025

Welcome to this week’s somewhat more sober than usual hand-picked links. Let’s take a quick look at the status of the fires on the West Coast before moving on to lighter fare. Los Angeles Fires Multiple fires continue to burn in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. Many

Hand-Picked Links — January 10, 2025

Welcome back, friends. We’re talking beautiful jigsaw puzzles, delicious candy, fun videos for the whole family, coding challenges, and a quick Wordle-style geography game. Enjoy. Parkside Puzzles It was a sad (and confusing) day in 2023 when Four Point Puzzles announced they were going out of business. The design,

The Official 2024 Cotton Bureau Gift Guide

Welcome to the 2024 Cotton Bureau Holiday Gift Guide! We’d like to do something a little bit different this year. We’re publishing earlier, for one thing, but we’re also highlighting a few of our friends who run impressive small businesses and make some amazing products. We hope

On Demand Mugs Now Available.

Finally, a very much requested product for us and just in time for chilly weather, Cotton Bureau on demand mugs have arrived. Full color, one-size-fits-all (11oz), 100% ceramic mugs. They're both dishwasher and microwave safe. Available in any color you want as long as that color is white.

We’re on Bluesky.

Did you know you can follow @cottonbureau.com on Bluesky? We set up an account way back in July 2023 at the same time our Mastodon and Threads accounts were created. Of the three non-Twitter services, it feels the most like home if we’re being completely honest. We miss

New Apparel Styles (Update)

Last week we disclaimed that not all of our new premium heavyweight Comfort Colors 1717 and 1566 colors were available on demand. Well, time flies and now they are. If you’ve been looking for bay, berry, blossom, blue spruce, butter, chalky mint, chambray, crimson, crunchberry, flo blue, light green,

New Apparel Styles.

We’ve made some big changes in the past few weeks to our default color bundles. For 10+ years we’ve sold almost exclusively lightweight tees. First from American Apparel, then Next Level. We did offer a heavyweight tee from Gildan (first the 2000, then the 5000), but the intention

Pre-Order Campaign Deadlines.

Hello! If you love a good screenprinted shirt (like we do) and want to offer a pre-order campaign on Cotton Bureau for the holidays, well, this is it. This is the holidays. Your last day to submit the campaign is Monday, November 25. That’s 10 days from today. All

Blog Back Catalog Restored.

Finally, a minor housekeeping note, if you’ve been around since the beginning (👋), you’ve seen us go through a handful of long-form writing platforms and locations over the last 10+ years. While we’ve never stopped typing, a lot of those posts became hard or impossible to find. We’

Hand-Picked Links — November 11, 2024

We’re in the eye of the storm, folks. Appreciate this week or two before the holidays come crashing down. Here’s our ~weekly contribution to a nicer and healthier internet sharing ecosystem. Alphabet in Motion Our good friend Kelli Anderson is back with another impossible book, this time on

Feature Friday #021 — Fell

A married design team? Could it actually work? Meet Jorrien and Tiera Peterson, the awesome husband-wife team behind Fell. Turns out, it works *and* you can still homeschool your kids while spending 3 months abroad in Switzerland. Check out their favorite US parks, work process, and more below. And don&

Hand-Picked Links — October 21, 2024

Hey, just so you know, we’re going to be hanging out in Brooklyn Thursday and Friday this week at Creative Works East. Come say hi at the pop up market (we won’t be selling anything, but lots of other people are), or grab a ticket. It’s not

Hand-Picked Links — October 7, 2024

Welcome to Cotton Bureau’s hand-picked links for the week of October 7, 2024. Today we’re sharing three small businesses that could use your support, plus one giant business that really does not. Sourhouse + Hurricane Helene Recovery Our friends Erik and Jenny at Sourhouse, makers of the Goldie sourdough

Hand-Picked Links — September 30, 2024

We’ve got a great Kickstarter, a cool charity, an ice cream recco, tips on designing for dark mode, and some fun facts about Austin, Texas for you today. Plus, it’s your last chance to get something in our hands for Submission Impossible.  The Falcon Mechanical Pencil Currently available

Relay for St. Jude.

Every year our friends at Relay FM raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital during the month of September. Since 2019 their efforts have resulted in over $3m being donated. This year they’ve already set a new record and are closing in on $1m. If you’d

Hand-Picked Links — September 16, 2024

We picked a pack of pickled pages for you today. Bon appétit. Art But Make It Sports The last good account on Twitter (non-Die, Workwear! division). Incredible work from one man. Follow the Account Relay FM / St. Jude Every year Relay FM spends all of September (Childhood Cancer Awareness Month)

Say cheese! iPhone 16 cases are here.

With support for the new Camera Control, Cotton Bureau phone cases are ready for their close up. Every phone case on Cotton Bureau has been updated with support for iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, and iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max. That includes our clear cases, slim cases,

Cotton Bureau: Submission Impossible

We are *so close* to 100,000 unique products on Cotton Bureau (96,397 and counting), but we need your help to make it all the way. Here’s what we’re going to do. From now until the end of September, all new approved products earn you a chance

Hand-Picked Links — August 26, 2024

We’re back after a hot summer hiatus. Did you miss us? Creative Works East It’s not too late to buy tickets for Creative Works East. Some of our best friends will be speaking including Jessica Hische, Kelli Anderson, Meg Lewis, Noah Jacobus, and Rogie King. (It doesn’t

Feature Friday #020 — Bryanne Skolaski

Hey hey, it's Feature Friday! Today we chat with Brie Skolaski about noisy snacks, relaxed farm friends, and a career full of problem solving. Check Brie out on Twitter after perusing her Cotton Bureau Collection here. Hi Brie! Welcome to our designer interview series. You're the

Feature Friday #019 — Mario Zucca

Illustrator of athletes, self-made thousandaire, and most importantly, long-time CB designer, Mario Zucca joins the program. We talk about Pittsburgh being the best city in the world and how the industry is changing. Check out his impressive work at mariozucca.com and his CB collection here. Usually we start off

Hand-Picked Links — July 1, 2024

Talking video games, national parks, smart writing, and happy birthdays today. Factorio: Space Age The folks at Wube Software made possibly my favorite PC game ever with the original Factorio (which you can and should buy right now if you haven’t already). They also write what may be the

Cotton Bureau is 11 Years Old!

We’re a little late to the party this year, but we’re not going to apologize because we have three huge announcements that are more than worth the wait. Free Shipping On Everything To celebrate our 11th birthday, we’re offering completely free shipping for everything on the entire

Get back to where we once belonged.

For the first few years of Cotton Bureau, the only way to get a shirt printed was with a two week screen printed pre-order campaign. That changed in 2015 when we dipped our toes in the on demand pool with direct-to-garment kids tees, and it really changed in 2018 when

Hand-Picked Links — June 10, 2024

Cotton Bureau’s Hand-Picked Links is back with a post-WWDC look at our favorite links from the past week, which just happen to be mostly videos. Ugmonk Discbound Heirloom Journal Almost out of stock — and really pushing your luck for Father’s Day — these olive leather journals with refillable paper

Hand-Picked Links — June 3, 2024

Cotton Bureau’s Hand-Picked Links took some time off for Memorial Day, but we’re back now with five more of our favorite stories, videos, apps, and toys. Lego Great Deku Tree Available in September for $299. Still cheaper than a sealed, first run Legend of Zelda cartridge for NES.

Hand-Picked Links — May 20, 2024

A few of our favorite food ‘grams, indie creators, and videos from last week. Valley Circle Pizza Our friend Dan Rubenstein — better known for college football podcast The Solid Verbal — happens to be an obsessed pizza chef. If you like to drool while you work, keep an eye on his

Feature Friday #018 — Yaron Schoen

Feature Friday #018 is here! Today we’re chatting with product designer extraordinaire and all around good dude Yaron Schoen. Check out Yaron’s website, and shop his collection on Cotton Bureau.   Yaron! It’s so good to catch up. I’m trying to remember when we met, was it

Hand-Picked Links — May 13, 2024

A few of our favorite links, long-reads, Kickstarters, and short videos from last week. DoughBed by Sourhouse If you’re serious about bread, you need to control temperature and humidity. Luckily our friends Erik and Jenny just launched a gorgeous glass-and-cork proofer to ensure the perfect mix of both on

Feature Friday #017 — Brianna Eng

Feature Friday #017 is here! Checkout Brianna's IG, Website, and full Cotton Bureau collection here. Read on to hear about all things art, bad roommates, and a guide to surviving Walmart after-hours.  Hiyah! I'm so excited to catch up with you. How's the art

Hand-Picked Links — May 6, 2024

A few of our favorite links from last week, plus a short video on the history of an iconic Apple sound. NWSL Stadium Guide Longtime friend of Cotton Bureau Matt Haughey recently vowed to start trying more weird stuff. His first project? Writing an unofficial guidebook to every National Women’

Feature Friday #016 — Ben Stafford

Collage master, CB alum, and new high school teacher Ben Stafford joins the program this week. His second stint in the interview chair explores how the younger generation uses AI, where his inspiration comes from, and what *hasn't* changed in the past 10 years. You find more of

Hand-Picked Links — April 29, 2024

A few of our favorite links from last week, plus one funny horse video that somehow we’re seeing just now. J.B. Mauney, Bull Rider Plates and screws in his shoulder, hand, and pelvis; a collapsed lung and a distended liver; broken eye-socket and jaw, shattered teeth; torn UCL,

Hand-Picked Links — April 22, 2024

Hey, hey. Welcome to week four of Cotton Bureau’s hand-picked links. Hope you don’t mind if we set the rest of this post in Papyrus. Smack for Heinz Chicago dogs are phenomenal whether you’re in Chicago or working from home, but as proud Pittsburghers, we firmly support

Drinks are on us.

Our catalog of on demand products is growing. Today we would like to officially announce support for a range of insulated drinkware including a 20oz tumbler (brushed steel, black powder coated, white powder coated), a 20oz white powder-coated skinny bottle with a screw-on cap, a 16oz clear acrylic cup with

Better international shipping.

A quick note for our friends abroad, we just added a new service level that we strongly recommend you use. The new default shipping option for international orders is about as close to a perfect blend of quick, reliable, and cheap as we’re going to get. To most places

Hand-Picked Links — Apr. 15, 2024

Welcome to Cotton Bureau’s hand-picked links, tax edition. Time to blow that refund. KNOB Keyboard Shipping in Q3, who doesn’t want a modular keyboard with two knobs, a tiny screen, magnetic risers, and electric orange accent keys? Designed by Ben Fryc, built by Work Louder. Pre-Order Now Mario

Hand-Picked Links — Apr. 8, 2024

Welcome to week two (total solar eclipse version 🌑🌞) of Cotton Bureau’s hand-picked links. We’re pulling some of our favorite internet finds each week to share with you. Russ Cook Runs YouTube is a weird place where the content of every video must contradict the title, like some Alice

Hand-Picked Links — Apr. 1, 2024

Welcome to the first edition of Cotton Bureau’s hand-picked links. We’re pulling some of our favorite internet finds each week to share with you. Brand New Fascinating story from Armin Vit on the third major revision of the Brand New identity. New logo, new colors, new typefaces… same

Feature Friday #015 — Matt Hamm

A CB OG joins us for Feature Friday #015. He's founder and co-owner of the Supereight Stuidio, a rock star in the making, and a crack Star Wars designer (always a CB fave). You can read more about his awesome work and see a full collection of products

New creator dashboard.

Behold the new creator dashboard. It’s simple, obvious, and functional. Like any other feature, we started off by asking ourselves what problem(s) we were trying to solve. In this case, there was a shared bundle of needs waiting for a unified solution. 1. The minute you have more

Feature Friday #014 — Gerren Lamson

Feature Friday #014 is here, and it’s a throwback interview with our old friend Gerren Lamson. The best place to keep up with Gerren’s incredible output is his website. Shop his full catalog at Nosmal or his Cotton Bureau collection here. Dude, I can’t believe it’s

Feature Friday #013 — Josh Gibson

Oh hello again! Here we go with Feature Friday #013! Today we get to hear about Josh Gibson, travel extraordinaire. You can find Josh on Instagram, his website or shop his Cotton Bureau collection here. Hey Josh! How's life? Any recent trips you want to share? Life is

On demand totes.

First up for the new year, our fourth unique on demand product: totes. When the big blizzard looms and you need to haul cans of chicken noodle soup, there’s nothing better than a high quality cotton canvas bag. Same sturdy OAD totes we’ve used for years, now available

New On Demand Hat Color: Forest.

It might be cold and snowy outside, but Cotton Bureau hats are evergreen. No, literally, we now have three hats in a new forest color. Joining black, charcoal, natural, white, navy, royal, light blue, and red, we’re pleased to make the unstructured dad hat, premium wool-blended snapback, and mesh-paneled

Feature Friday #012 — Maria Tina Beddia

Well hey there, here we are with Feature Friday #012! Today is all about Maria Tina Beddia. You can catch up with Maria on her website and Instagram or track her down at Maria's Bread Sandwiches. Hiya! We're going to do this interview a little bit

Feature Friday #011 — Todd Radom

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Feature Friday #011, our first in 2024, featuring friend of the site Todd Radom. Check out Todd’s incredible work over the years on his website. You can keep up with him on Twitter and Instagram. You might also like his tribute to Cuban baseball on

Brand new year.

Happy New Year. Let’s have a quick chat about what Cotton Bureau was able to accomplish (or not accomplish) in 2023 and where we hope to go in 2024. The Audit. 💼 On March 28, 2023 Cotton Bureau received a letter from the Internal Revenue Service advising us that our

The Official 2023 Cotton Bureau Holiday Gift Guide.

Welcome to the 2023 Cotton Bureau Holiday Gift Guide! While Cotton Bureau is a great place to start or finish your shopping, we would love to highlight some of the incredible designers, artists, and communities that we have had the pleasure of working with over the years. If you are

Give Back Friday is Back!

Raise your hand if you remember our last Give Back Friday. Anybody? Kind of hard to believe it’s already been five years since we most recently donated to classrooms across the country. But today school is back in session. Just like last time, we’re funding projects through Donors

Long sleeves for long days.

Just in time for winter weather we’ve got cozy looooong sleeve shirts live on the site. You don’t have to do anything (other than let people know). All products on the site using black, navy, charcoal, grey, white, or maroon color bundles have been automatically updated to include

Self-serve embroidery is here.

Earlier this year (April to be precise) we officially announced our third on demand product category: embroidered hats. That announcement included a fairly important caveat. At the time, the on demand embroidery program was extremely limited. Every new on demand hat needed to be sampled and photographed before it was

Feature Friday #010 — Chiara Mensa

Heyo! So excited to get a chance to chat with you. How's everything going? I just took a peek at your instagram and noticed the stamps you've been making? So cool. How'd you get into that? Hey Beth, It's so lovely to

Feature Friday #009 — Josh '@yoyoha' Hara

Hey Josh. Gotta say, I have a ton of questions for you so I'm pretty excited about his one. It seems like your journey to social media superstar status was kickstarted by your coffee cup sketches. It's been a minute since we've seen one

Feature Friday #008 — Sheri Roloff

Hey there, and welcome to Feature Friday #008, our series highlighting some of the incredible people on Cotton Bureau. You can find Sheri on Instagram and around the web. You can also shop her collection on Cotton Bureau. Hiiii, how's it going? Are you still located in Milwaukee?

Feature Friday #007 — Justin Van Genderen

It's another designer interview! Welcome to Feature Friday #007, our series highlighting some of the incredible people on Cotton Bureau. This week we have space design extraordinaire Justin Van Genderen. You can find him on Instagram and around the web. You can also shop his collection on Cotton

YouTube Shopping integration.

If there’s one story I have found repeating itself again and again over the last decade plus running a small business, it’s the value of persistence and patience. Too many times to count, someone I first spoke with years prior finds that the time is right for us

Feature Friday #006 — Andrew Griswold

Hey there, and welcome to Feature Friday #006, our series highlighting some of the incredible people on Cotton Bureau. You can find Andrew on Instagram and around the web. You can also shop his collection on Cotton Bureau. Hey, Andrew, you’ve got a ton of designs on Cotton Bureau

Feature Friday #005 — Christopher Michon

Hey there, and welcome to Feature Friday #005, our series highlighting some of the incredible people on Cotton Bureau. You can find Christopher on Instagram and around the web. You can also shop his collection on Cotton Bureau. What’s up! It’s been almost six years since we last

Feature Friday #004 — Tim Van Damme

Hey there, and welcome to Feature Friday #004, our series highlighting some of the incredible people on Cotton Bureau. You can find Tim on Instagram and around the web. If you’re looking to pick up Tim’s new Design hat or his classic Heart of Pixels tee, you can

Feature Friday #003 — Amanda Weedmark

Hey there, and welcome to Feature Friday #003, our series highlighting some of the incredible people on Cotton Bureau. You can find Amanda on Instagram, her website, or check out her entire Cotton Bureau portfolio. Hey Amanda! How's it going? Looks like you're coming up on

Cotton Bureau referral codes are here.

For years people have been asking you, “Where did you get that amazing t-shirt?” and you’ve been telling them, “Cotton Bureau. It’s where I get all my shirts.” purely from the goodness of your heart because you love your friends and you love Cotton Bureau even though there’

Feature Friday #002 — Steve Habersang

Hello, and welcome to Feature Friday #002, our new series highlighting some of the incredible people on Cotton Bureau. You can follow Steve on Instagram to keep up with all his work, or check out his entire Cotton Bureau portfolio. Hiii, how are you!? Looks like you've been

Feature Friday #001 — Virginia Poltrack

Hey, everyone. Welcome to a new series we’re starting highlighting some of the incredible people on Cotton Bureau. Virginia created our wonderful 10th birthday celebration tee (available only until Wednesday, June 21) and is a fantastic designer and illustrator. We previously interviewed Virginia all the way back in 2014

Cotton Bureau turns 10.

There’s a strangeness to sitting down to write an email celebrating 10 years of Cotton Bureau. It’s difficult, or maybe impossible, to express the gratitude you feel towards the people who have been a part of the last decade of your life… employees, customers, partners, investors, collaborators, family,

Updated mockup rendering.

Every time you visit the Cotton Bureau home page or a product page or pretty much any page on the website, what you are actually looking at when you see a t-shirt is a carefully rendered mockup. The artwork (the design file you gave us) is layered over (and sometimes

It’s National Parks week on Cotton Bureau.

It’s National Parks Week, and there’s no better way to celebrate than with a new tee from the Cotton Bureau NPS collection. Whether your favorite park is Acadia, Shenandoah, Yosemite, or Zion, we’ve got a shirt for you. By the way, we’re offering free shipping this

Hats for your heads.

We’ve been making hats almost as long as we’ve been making t-shirts, though on a much smaller scale. For just as long, we’ve been asking ourselves, “why can’t we sell hats on demand? People seem to like ‘em.” Well, now we can. We are very pleased

Coming soon.

Sometimes you work hard all month, and… you have nothing to show for it. You can’t talk about the new on demand product that is almost ready, or the other new on demand product that is coming soon. You definitely can’t talk about the highly classified on demand

New and improved sales reports.

Want to see real time stats for your product sales? Pop over to your account, view a product, and click through to the new “Sales Stats” page. Sales can be viewed by month, day, and most recent. Aggregated sales are also filterable by product attributes like color and size. Take

New profile link options.

As the Twitter implosion continues unabated, we took a moment to revisit Cotton Bureau profiles and the support we offer for outbound links. Until today, your only options were Twitter, Instagram, and a generic link field to be used at your discretion. We’ve significantly extended that now to include

Looking back, and forward.

Unless you spent 2022 hiding under a rock (we wouldn’t blame you), you might have heard we started offering premium phone cases. The cases are tough (confirmed through more than a few drops in our personal testing), the printing is sharp, and the price is right. It’s our

Holiday high five is back.

Not long ago (okay, it was 2018), we had the brilliant idea to randomly give away matching prizes to customers and creators. Well, we’re doing it again. We’re hereby announcing the First Annual Holiday High Five, 2022 Edition. Starting now, ending Friday, Dec. 16 at 8 PM ET

Site updates.

Account Balance All accounts on Cotton Bureau now having a running balance (“to be paid”) which is settled monthly (typically the 15th). You can see yours right now in your payment history tab. (Not the most obvious place, we know. Maybe it will get rearranged in the future.) In the

Last chance to win an iPhone 14 Pro.

Our extended phone case kickoff is coming to an end this Monday (Dec. 5). If you’ve already added a few phone case designs to the site, thank you! Every new phone case product counts as an entry for the giveaway up to the maximum of 10 entries. The winner