The Life Is Good Company: Bert and John Jacobs In the late 80s, brothers Bert and John Jacobs were living as nomads, traveling from college to college selling t-shirts out of their van. It wasn't ...

Life is good. It’s more than a slogan. For more than 25 years, it’s been an ethos for the company that makes $100 million a year printing those three words on T-shirts, ball caps, coffee mugs ...

This meant that rather than creating designs 12 to 18 months in advance, Life Is Good could speak to what was happening now. The majority of these efforts went into cutesy riffs on the present moment.

The Life Is Good origin story tells of how Bert and John Jacobs had $78 between them when they dreamed up the shirt designs that made the company. They sold out 48 shirts in 45 minutes in their ...

Needham brothers John and Bert Jacobs started the Boston-based company "Life Is Good" in the mid-90s, by selling their shirt designs out of a van. Today, it's a $100 million clothing empire.

But the Life Is Good message soon went beyond t-shirts. After learning that a young cancer patient, Lindsey Beggan, was a fan of the company's designs, Jacobs was inspired by her refusal to adopt ...

Out of these efforts, Life Is Good Playmakers, a 501©(3), was born to help children overcome poverty, violence and illness. The company donates 10 percent of its net profits to the cause.

Life Is Good can print 14,000 shirts per day on each of its 12 commercial printing machines. Workers operating the machines consult video screens as they feed shirts into the printers. Each blank ...