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As we’re quickly approaching the end of the school year, fiscal year, etc., we begin to start thinking about unique and meaningful ways to recognize the employees that really make everything happen.

Did you know that over 75% of companies have an employee recognition program in place? If your company recognizes a landmark anniversary or event of your employee (college degree completion, years of service, etc.), you’re making a gesture to show that you value your employee, their ability for a blended work/life balance, and that YOU care!

Years of service lapel pins are a fantastic and affordable keepsake. They’re impactful to the employee, and it’s a great way for the 5-years, 10-years, 25-years, or even the life-ers to show off their pride for their workplace. We can design the perfect years of service pins for you or your company. We’ve got a ton of great options that will really make your employee gifts shine.

As we’re quickly approaching the end of the school year, fiscal year, etc., we begin to start thinking about unique and meaningful ways to recognize the employees that really make everything happen.

Did you know that over 75% of companies have an employee recognition program in place? If your company recognizes a landmark anniversary or event of your employee (college degree completion, years of service, etc.), you’re making a gesture to show that you value your employee, their ability for a blended work/life balance, and that YOU care!

Years of service lapel pins are a fantastic and affordable keepsake. They’re impactful to the employee, and it’s a great way for the 5-years, 10-years, 25-years, or even the life-ers to show off their pride for their workplace. We can design the perfect years of service pins for you or your company. We’ve got a ton of great options that will really make your employee gifts shine.

As we’re quickly approaching the end of the school year, fiscal year, etc., we begin to start thinking about unique and meaningful ways to recognize the employees that really make everything happen.

Did you know that over 75% of companies have an employee recognition program in place? If your company recognizes a landmark anniversary or event of your employee (college degree completion, years of service, etc.), you’re making a gesture to show that you value your employee, their ability for a blended work/life balance, and that YOU care!

Years of service lapel pins are a fantastic and affordable keepsake. They’re impactful to the employee, and it’s a great way for the 5-years, 10-years, 25-years, or even the life-ers to show off their pride for their workplace. We can design the perfect years of service pins for you or your company. We’ve got a ton of great options that will really make your employee gifts shine.

As we’re quickly approaching the end of the school year, fiscal year, etc., we begin to start thinking about unique and meaningful ways to recognize the employees that really make everything happen.

Did you know that over 75% of companies have an employee recognition program in place? If your company recognizes a landmark anniversary or event of your employee (college degree completion, years of service, etc.), you’re making a gesture to show that you value your employee, their ability for a blended work/life balance, and that YOU care!

Years of service lapel pins are a fantastic and affordable keepsake. They’re impactful to the employee, and it’s a great way for the 5-years, 10-years, 25-years, or even the life-ers to show off their pride for their workplace. We can design the perfect years of service pins for you or your company. We’ve got a ton of great options that will really make your employee gifts shine.

As we’re quickly approaching the end of the school year, fiscal year, etc., we begin to start thinking about unique and meaningful ways to recognize the employees that really make everything happen.

Did you know that over 75% of companies have an employee recognition program in place? If your company recognizes a landmark anniversary or event of your employee (college degree completion, years of service, etc.), you’re making a gesture to show that you value your employee, their ability for a blended work/life balance, and that YOU care!

Years of service lapel pins are a fantastic and affordable keepsake. They’re impactful to the employee, and it’s a great way for the 5-years, 10-years, 25-years, or even the life-ers to show off their pride for their workplace. We can design the perfect years of service pins for you or your company. We’ve got a ton of great options that will really make your employee gifts shine.

As we’re quickly approaching the end of the school year, fiscal year, etc., we begin to start thinking about unique and meaningful ways to recognize the employees that really make everything happen.

Did you know that over 75% of companies have an employee recognition program in place? If your company recognizes a landmark anniversary or event of your employee (college degree completion, years of service, etc.), you’re making a gesture to show that you value your employee, their ability for a blended work/life balance, and that YOU care!

Years of service lapel pins are a fantastic and affordable keepsake. They’re impactful to the employee, and it’s a great way for the 5-years, 10-years, 25-years, or even the life-ers to show off their pride for their workplace. We can design the perfect years of service pins for you or your company. We’ve got a ton of great options that will really make your employee gifts shine.

As we’re quickly approaching the end of the school year, fiscal year, etc., we begin to start thinking about unique and meaningful ways to recognize the employees that really make everything happen.

Did you know that over 75% of companies have an employee recognition program in place? If your company recognizes a landmark anniversary or event of your employee (college degree completion, years of service, etc.), you’re making a gesture to show that you value your employee, their ability for a blended work/life balance, and that YOU care!

Years of service lapel pins are a fantastic and affordable keepsake. They’re impactful to the employee, and it’s a great way for the 5-years, 10-years, 25-years, or even the life-ers to show off their pride for their workplace. We can design the perfect years of service pins for you or your company. We’ve got a ton of great options that will really make your employee gifts shine.

In the beginning, it all started with a little robot who made custom phone cases. Since then SwagRobot has evolved into something so much bigger. Now, we offer over nine promotional products that can be 100% customized to your liking. In addition, we've come up with inventive solutions to meet all of our clients' needs. Artists are a big part of our client base too, which is why we developed Artist Collections. This gives our talented friends a place to sell their own branded items though SwagRobot. SwagRobot handles the production, inventory and shipping of the Artist Collections too! The SwagRobot family has put in a lot of oil, sparks and gears to get to where we are today. But what's next?

Every new product and feature we launch happens because of you- our wonderful clients. You constantly provide us with feedback on how to make SwagRobot bigger and better. Two of the most requested services we get from our clients are for graphic design and print services. That brings us to today.

Since our #1 goal is to be a one-stop shop for all your promotional product needs, we're partnering with one of the best in the business to extend our offerings. Starting today, SwagRobot is partnering with JenchiKimchi Creative Co. to offer both graphic design and print services. JKCC has you covered with everything from brochures to business cards. SwagRobot has been a JKCC client since inception, and we couldn't be happier with the quality of their work! It's our esteemed pleasure to introduce our client base to JenchiKimchi Creative Co.

Not only that, but JKCC is offering their lovely clients a way to get their JKCC designs on any promotional product that SwagRobot offers. That means SwagRobot can design you a stellar logo custom lapel pin, and JKCC can print that logo on some sweet business cards! Or JKCC can develop your entire marketing collateral, and SwagRobot can make you a promotional Swag Pack, chock full of keychains, lanyards, shirts and more to help build your new brand. Pretty cool, right?

Hey Bots! It’s been a while since we’ve had a new post in our “We Make Swag” series, so we figured we better get back in the game!

If you’re new to the series, we use this opportunity to introduce you to our awesome SwagRobot customers and to highlight some of the promotional products that we offer, as well as what they’re using them for. These features are a great way to make sure that our customers get to shine!

Our most recent highlight is Vogue Knitting! Matthew from VK reached out to us with the challenge of creating a keepsake to give away at their Vogue Knitting LIVE event in New York City.

We were stoked that Vogue Knitting chose us to help out and one of our Digital Designers (and also resident yarn bomber) rose to the occasion!

So together we created a custom lapel pin. Attendees could put their pin on their shirts, bags, or even better their knitted scarfs and hats. Plus, what gets more attention than a hot pink KNIT. pin? Check out the design to the right. 

We’re thrilled to see that the event was a success! Have you ever attended a Vogue Knitting LIVE event?!

Hey Bots! It’s been a while since we’ve had a new post in our “We Make Swag” series, so we figured we better get back in the game!

If you’re new to the series, we use this opportunity to introduce you to our awesome SwagRobot customers and to highlight some of the promotional products that we offer, as well as what they’re using them for. These features are a great way to make sure that our customers get to shine!

Our most recent highlight is Vogue Knitting! Matthew from VK reached out to us with the challenge of creating a keepsake to give away at their Vogue Knitting LIVE event in New York City.

We were stoked that Vogue Knitting chose us to help out and one of our Digital Designers (and also resident yarn bomber) rose to the occasion!

So together we created a custom lapel pin. Attendees could put their pin on their shirts, bags, or even better their knitted scarfs and hats. Plus, what gets more attention than a hot pink KNIT. pin? Check out the design to the right. 

We’re thrilled to see that the event was a success! Have you ever attended a Vogue Knitting LIVE event?!

Hey Bots! It’s been a while since we’ve had a new post in our “We Make Swag” series, so we figured we better get back in the game!

If you’re new to the series, we use this opportunity to introduce you to our awesome SwagRobot customers and to highlight some of the promotional products that we offer, as well as what they’re using them for. These features are a great way to make sure that our customers get to shine!

Our most recent highlight is Vogue Knitting! Matthew from VK reached out to us with the challenge of creating a keepsake to give away at their Vogue Knitting LIVE event in New York City.

We were stoked that Vogue Knitting chose us to help out and one of our Digital Designers (and also resident yarn bomber) rose to the occasion!

So together we created a custom lapel pin. Attendees could put their pin on their shirts, bags, or even better their knitted scarfs and hats. Plus, what gets more attention than a hot pink KNIT. pin? Check out the design to the right. 

We’re thrilled to see that the event was a success! Have you ever attended a Vogue Knitting LIVE event?!

One of my favorite things to do when I’m putting together a story is learning about the creative process that occurs when producing a new product, or a new series. Today we’re going to slow our bots down a little bit, and learn about the “Artist Collections” that SwagRobot has been producing. Here comes John now.

Good morning John! How are you? I’m great! I’m drinking my coffee as we’re gearing up for the day (there are never enough gear puns).

So let’s dig right in, okay? Can you tell me a little bit about the Artist Collections series that SwagRobot has been showing off? We’ve seen the most recent “Emoji Pins” and the “Elk & Quill” series. At SwagRobot we get the opportunity to work with many amazingly talented artists. We wanted to give them an outlet to showcase each of their own unique styles of design. To accomplish this we came up with the idea of personalized storefronts presented by SwagRobot, thus Artist Collections were born.

That’s so cool! It’s great that you are always trying to come up with something that not only helps to support yourselves, but also others! Our audience is already coming to SwagRobot to get some type of custom product. Whether it’s lapel pins, challenge coins, custom lanyards or keychains, they want to see their design on a physical item. So we decided why not give artists a way to offer their own designs, manufactured, inventoried and shipped by SwagRobot? Our customers can get custom promotional products made any way they like, or browse our growing sets of items ready to ship from our Artist Collections.

So what can we expect in the future for the Artist Collections? With the success of Emoji Pins and Elk & Quill we’re growing pretty fast, and we want to keep our foot on the pedal. We’ve got some pretty interesting collections in the pipeline that we’re excited about. Some collections are coming from our in-house artists that are already putting their magic on custom products for our current clients. In addition, we’ve been getting inquiries from people outside the SwagRobot team that want to get on board. We’re super happy with the response we’ve gotten so far.

I can’t wait to see what’s ahead! How often can we expect a new collection, and WHEN will we be seeing the next one? One I’m really excited about is going to be something we haven’t ever done before. It’s going to be a whole new product presented in a really surprising way. The idea is locked down and the designs are in development right now. We’ve hoping to launch this new collection by March, so stay tuned!

Now, to get down to the nitty, gritty, what does being a part of this Artist Collection cost? Artist Collections are pretty reasonable. The investment by the artists comes back surprisingly quickly, and they turn a great profit. It’s all about marketing their collections. Since many items can be offered, and the collections can be 100% customized, right down to the packaging, the cost varies. The best way to get a quote with us for your own Artist Collection is to fill out the form on our Get Featured page.

At SwagRobot we try to stay on top of all of the events happening related to our industry. So we wanted to share with you one of our favorite events, Destination Imagination (DI).

DI is an organization that strives to inspire students “to become the next generation of innovators and leaders,” sounds pretty cool right? In addition to the different challenges students compete in, pin trading is huge at DI. With their 2015 Global event coming up in Knoxville, Tennessee in May, we’re excited to share a little bit about the creativity and enthusiasm that goes into the pin trading tradition at Destination Imagination.

With pin trading at the Destination Imagination 2015 Global Finals, students, parents, and more are given the opportunity to create and trade pins, meet others, and introduce other students to the pin trading community.

Our Digital Designers have some really great memories of working with students for Destination Imagination. “It’s great that the participants in DI are given the opportunity to be so creative. The kids always create the design or the subject matter for their own pins. It’s amazing.” He went on to explain a little bit more about the DI pin trading event, “some of the pins have glitter, movable parts, there was even some with blinking lights! Like I said, these kids are given the opportunity to be SUPER creative, and it's awesome to help make the designs they have in their head, come to life. Working with students on DI trading pins is one of my favorite things to do here at SwagRobot.”

At SwagRobot, we always love being a part of the creative process, so let us know how we can help you! Are you heading to Destination Imagination this year? We can create your own custom pins in any color metal, with translucent enamel fills, add glow in the dark color, or even double up with pins on top of other pins! Check out our trading pins page and discover that anything is possible. 

At SwagRobot we’re always so excited when we get to see the success of our products in partnership with our amazing customers.

Remember when we wrote about Hannah and Slipstream? Well we wanted to do a follow-up story on how they did in Abu Dhabi… they got fourth place! Not only did they place fourth (awesome work guys!), they received special recognition for their marketing efforts.

A few months ago, we were contacted by Hannah, a student in Bradenton, FL who was interested in some trading pins for her F1 in Schools team. Slipstream wanted to be at the head of starting a pin trading tradition at the F1 in Schools world finals in Abu Dhabi (and they did it!). We loved Hannah's passion, and were super impressed with the entire team, so we agreed to sponsor them. We worked with the team to create two trading pins for them. Check out the video below of the first day of racing, and the team presenting their trading pins on camera.

For more information about Slipstream, check out their web site at http://slipstreamf1.us or follow them on Twitter! @slipstream_2014.

For more information about F1 in Schools, check out their web site at http://www.f1inschools.com 

At SwagRobot, we’re all about showing off our customers, and after the great feedback we received from our We Make Swag series, we’re so excited to introduce Artist Collections. We started out with Emoji Pins and now we're happy to introduce you to Elk & Quill.

Elk & Quill is the creative child of two friends. “Elk” is the resident illustrator, and business manager, while "Quill" is the designer, project manager, and organizer. Elk & Quill was started to create beautiful, and nerdy projects. Every item is hand and digitally drawn by E&Q.

The current collection offers speciality items for Harry Potter and Dr. Who fans. The Gallifreyan House Lapel Pins and Gallifreyan Quest Keychains are already a huge hit on the Elk & Quill store and Amazon. The lovely ladies at Elk & Quill are hard at work already crafting new nerdy gifts. And if you didn't already see, they have a beautiful holiday department too, check out their Christmas Star ornament.

With the impressive success of Emoji Pins and Elk & Quill already off to a booming start, we're so excited about our SwagRobot Artist Collections! Are you interested in partnering with us and having your own designs and products featured in an Artist Collection?

John has a pretty meticulous workstation... he goes a little crazy if anything is out of place. Front and center is his MacBook Pro (Team Mac!) with about 9,000 tabs open on three different web browsers.

To left of his computer you can find an iPad mini (used for SwagRobot social media), a pack of Emoji Pins, and the latest issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. If you haven't been reading Spider-Man, do yourself a favor and get on board.

On the right is a Quirky Nimbus for tracking social media interaction, a copy of Delivering Happiness, and a keychain and ornament from our newest Artist Collection from Elk & Quill. Also, this Bandai Tamashii Super Mario always steals the scene.

(Not pictured, the largest cup of coffee ever to exist.)

As a graphic designer, I love colors. I love my Pantone Swatch Books, I love pulling them out and finding a very appropriate color for my mood, or for that day… or even for that toe…

Once I painted my bedroom red, all four walls, it was intense, but I still miss that room every single day. My roommate (and best friend) wasn’t too thrilled with the color choice once I moved out…

So outside of the scope of my personal life, I love colors. And here at the SwagRobot offices we love colors, infographics and providing our blog readers with very helpful information. So Chris wanted to be sure that we shared this co­ol infographic below.­..

 Some of the highlights?

Yellow affects consumers with optimism, and is used as an attention grabbing color.

Red increases heart rate, and creates urgency.