Casual Friday Tee

Everyone is FANATICAL about Casual Friday, that one day a week when everyone and everything is more relaxed. It marks the end of the traditional work week. It signifies the start of the weekend: a time for family, friends, celebrations, self-indulgence, self-reflection and college football.

For Fanatical Artworks, Casual Friday is a way of life inspired by our good friend Jimmy Malfetti, a fellow Clemson alumni with a larger-than-life personality who was taken from us far too soon. Jimmy conducted his business from an island of endless summer, where every day was Casual Friday: shorts, flip flops and tees. He was a collector of friends, the bridge that connected different groups of people and the glue that held those relationships together, despite time or distance. Jimmy was FANATICAL about life, family, friends, music and Clemson.

The end of Jimmy’s life planted the seed for the renewal of mine. Logging over 50,000 miles a year commuting and spending countless hours away from my kids while climbing the corporate ladder felt rewarding at the time, but Jimmy’s death was an instant reminder that time is an illusion. Nearly every Friday, I wear Jimmy’s original Casual Friday t-shirt as a reminder to #getFANATICAL about life.

For every Casual Friday t-shirt purchased, Fanatical Artworks, in collaboration with the Richmond Alumni Club, will make a $10 donation to the Samuel J. Cadden Chapel, set to be built near the heart of Clemson’s campus and a place for visitors to unite and  pay homage to all Clemson students that have left us long before we were ready to say goodbye.

For more information about the Samuel J. Cadden Chapel, please visit http://www.clemson.edu/chapel