Cotton Bureau is kind of an odd company. To be honest, we’re not for everyone. We’re small, stubborn, and 100% independently owned and operated. We’re also, we hope, reasonable, pragmatic, and good at what we do. Those traits have served us — and thousands of designers and communities — well over the last 10+ years in business.

Since starting in 2013, we’ve shipped over half a million t-shirts, pins, stickers, posters, buttons, mugs, and more to pretty much every country on the planet, often with our own hands. We know what quality looks like and what it feels like. You might even say we’re grizzled veterans at this point. As long as we get to do good work with people we like though, we’re happy.

If you think that sounds like the kind of company you want to work with, get in touch. We’d love to hear more about your story and how we can help.

Our current office is conveniently located right next to Google in Bakery Square and is an easy walk to an unhealthy amount of Slice on Broadyway pizza and Jeni’s ice cream, which you can be sure we partake in regularly.

From meeting in coffee shops and libraries to our first office in the Strip, from working out of the corner of a print shop while shipping tens of thousands of Rogue NASA tees to designing and building our own custom 5,000 square foot space, from enduring a global pandemic to relocating to a beautiful co-working space… it’s been a roller coaster.

We couldn’t have done any of this without the many people who have put their trust in us. Our goal has always been and will always remain taking the pain out of producing and fulfilling the highquest quality merchandise for designers and communities of all kinds.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey with us, particularly Cotton Bureau alumni Sara, Caitlin, Briana, Web, Sam, Matt, Erin, Kyle, Michelle, and Jay.

If you’d like to read more about the history of Cotton Bureau, please feel free to browse the blog archives. We’ve got hundreds of posts with designer interviews, company updates, and interesting links dating back to the beginning of Cotton Bureau.

Quick facts:

• Founded in 2013 by Jay, Nate, and Matt.
• Indie.vc 2016 portfolio company.
• Tens of millions paid to designers.
• Hundreds of thousands of orders shipped.
• Eleven years in business and counting.
• Not a rocketship.

Interested in writing about or interviewing us? Email us@cottonbureau.com to get in touch.

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