The design process
Every mascot blanket is designed by our in-house team, not pulled from a clipart library or run through a template. Here is exactly how it works, and what you need to send.
We have drawn more than 70,000 unique mascot designs over the years. That archive is why our team can take a blurry logo off a school website and turn it into a clean, print-ready blanket that captures the detail down to the texture on a helmet or the fur on a wolf. A template tool cannot do that. A designer who has done it 70,000 times can.
Vector files (AI, EPS, SVG) give the sharpest result, but high-resolution PNG or JPG at 300 DPI or better works fine too. Send your mascot, logo, wordmark, and school colors. If all you have is a low-res file off the website, send it anyway; our team can usually recreate it as clean vector art at no extra charge.
No close-enough. Send your brand colors, or even a photo of a game jersey, and we match them precisely. Pantone matching is available. The blanket should look like it came out of your athletic department, not a generic catalog.
Our designers build the visual hierarchy: the mascot as the focal point, school name and year as secondary, an established date or motto as tertiary. School name in your varsity wordmark, year in your athletic font. The design reads as a cohesive piece of school identity at any distance.
Within two business days you get one to three custom blanket mockups showing exactly what the finished product will look like. Want changes? We revise until it is right. There is no cost and no commitment until you approve a final design.
Intricate, high-detail mascot art looks best on Digital NubaySoft or 600 GSM D-Luxe. If the blanket is a keepsake or premium gift, the 1060 GSM Swanky tier is the heaviest and plushest we make. All of our tiers print photo-realistically; the right one depends on your design and how the blanket will be used.
Send us whatever art you have. We will send back a custom mockup within 48 hours, free, with no commitment.