How to design merch your customers will keep
June 26, 2025
Maybe you’ve inherited a website and been asked to check your company owns the rights to the images used in the blog posts.
Nobody knows who first sourced them.
What do you do?
Here’s a tip: use Google Reverse Image Search
Go to this url: https://images.google.com
Click on the little camera icon. Then upload the image to Google, or paste in the URL. It searches through the internet for the same pixel combinations that make up that image and displays what it finds.
The search results list every single place the image has been used, and whether it’s an image from a stock library, or details of the original photographer.
Take a look at Google’s detailed instructions.
For the 2024 President’s Dinner event at State Library Victoria, we created two visual concepts.
This is the concept that didn’t make the cut, and we share some of the additional printing and finishing details.
Sometimes it can be hard to think of Christmas Cards (especially when the holiday season is months away). So we present a few ideas to get your creative minds sparking…
We have 3 rules when designing merch / swag / promotional gifts: 1. Sustainable
2. Usable
3. Quality
Whatever the brief is, it’s exactly the same. Every project. Every time. Every design. It‘s just one word.
You never know where inspiration comes from : behind-the-scenes at a design project combining the vintage aesthetic of pre-1800 Japanese rare books, with a modern twist.
Whilst we can’t claim to be experts, we know a thing or two about branding events. Here are 3 simple ideas to help you make your budget $$$ go far.
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