Product Details

The Tianbini Collections are designs made by humans based in the United States. Our designers have digital art and content backgrounds and work from home. There are no full-time employees. These collections are side projects.

Limited generative-AI processes are used. Examples include a small number of select base-visual designs, select human t-shirt models, research for articles, and first drafts of the articles. We are committed to exploring new ways to use generative-AI in ways that increase productivity, but do not accelerate the obsolescence of humans or infringe on the copyrights held by human artists. This is difficult to achieve, especially given the current state of generative-AI applications, their parent companies, and the law-makers who fail to regulate them.

We make use of non-copyrighted or public domain materials, such as flag designs, typography, and shapes to display languages, including English, Braille, American Sign Language (ASL), and Arabic numbers. A portion of select base-visual designs are sourced from art stock platforms with adherence to the copyright attribution requirements, terms, and conditions of the platforms.

Sometimes we purposefully push the boundaries of copyright infringements, not to overtly steal, but to demonstrate how ideas in various meme-forms replicate and transform over time. We are not staunch post-modernists who might believe that nothing is original, and is therefore, fair-game. We believe humans, by their very nature, are continually consuming, combining, and mutating ideas into new forms. These collections are all about exploring the boundaries to create new forms.

ABOUT OUR PHYSICAL PRODUCTS

Our products are fulfilled through our print-on-demand business partners. We make a concerted effort to source printing and shipping services from the United States (and Europe, someday), which in turn, source products from the United States or other countries in the Americas.

Where noted, “Source: All USA” is intended to mean the designs and compositions, the service of printing and shipping, blank t-shirts and other blank products are made in the United States. Where noted “Source: All American,” blank products are made in countries located in the Americas, such as an apparel brand that manufactures in the Dominican Republic.

Limitations of these claims include where affiliated companies source their base materials, such as the country of origin of organic fibers, machinery, the inks used in the printing process, or packing materials used in the process of building a package for shipping.

We share this information in the spirit of transparency and to bring awareness to the public regarding the challenges that small business owners face in order to fully claim something is made in America or made in the USA. We live in a global economy where making such a claim in the utmost absolute terms is nearly impossible. Please do know we’re committed to making the best possible decisions to be good and responsible humans. This is a side project and we really appreciate your support to help us grow.