New Community of Artists Creating Cool Graphic T-shirts for Skateboarders

(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 11, 2007 ) SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The edgiest community for artists is now open to upload art and have it sold on t-shirts to the skate (skateboarding) community.Yooz founder Jim Kim says, “There has long been a strong tie between skaters and origianl art. This site is an attempt to bring the two worlds together to support one another.” Through the site, Yooz promotes new, emerging artists and helps them earn commissions by selling their art printed onto t-shirts. Artists can upload art and graphics, blog, and discuss their inspirations behind the art that they create. A host of web 2.0 features make it easy for them to promote their art, including Facebook, Digg, and del.icio.us social bookmarking tags. Customers come to the site and can purchase the art printed onto a unique, cool t-shirt. With each t-shirt sold, the artist makes a commission that is paid out at the beginning of every month. Yooz is targeting the fast-growing population of skateboarders, snowboarders, and other extreme sport participants, due to this population’s affinity for original art and cool t-shirts.The response from artists has been exceptional. “We depend on great art,” says Mr Kim. “As the artists become increasingly active in our community website, they will connect with customers. The response we’ve seen so far has been great, and it’s cool to log-on and see something original and new with each visit.” Though only a few days old, the site has already seen a surge of new art from artists all over the world.Because the art will be printed onto t-shirts for the skate community, the company encourages unconventional art forms, such as graphic, digital, anime, and graffiti-inspired styles. All art is printed in full color on a number of different t-shirt colors, ranging from basic white, to navy blue, to black, and baby blue. The company prints on 100% cotton shirts made from American Apparel. Unlike other websites that custom print t-shirts, Yooz does not hold their artists to exclusive arrangements. The artists are free to sell their art in as many different venues as they’d like. “We just want to create cool t-shirts inspired by amazing art,” says Mr Kim.About Yooz.UsBased in San Francisco, CA, http://www.Yooz.Us is a web community for artists to upload original art to be printed and sold as a t-shirt. Anyone can submit art. With each t-shirt sold, the artists will make a commission that is paid out at the beginning of each month. The site is focused on unconventional art genres such as: graphic, digital, anime, and graffiti-inspired styles. Yooz is targeting the fast-growing population of skateboarders, snowboarders, and other extreme sport participants, due to this population’s affinity for original art and cool t-shirts.Cool t-shirt artContact:Jim Kimjim@kickprints.comTel: 415-206-1100

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