Wednesday, August 17, 2016

20 Impressive Instagrammers to inspire printers & embroiderers

We’ve scoured the far reaches of the instagram galaxy for the tastiest eye candy we could find for garment decorators.  Whether you’re an Instagram aficionado, completely new to it or somewhere in-between, you’ll find a great mix here to inspire you.  Some are in here for their originality, aesthetic, humour, ability to target a great niche or simply because their profile is darn cool and presents their business beautifully.  Without further ado and in no particular order, here are 25 businesses killing it on Instagram that you check out:-

1. The Print Room NZ

The Print Room NZ Insta Profile

These New Zealand screen printers really know how to showcase their work and country beautifully.

2. Uber Prints

Uber Prints Insta Profile copy

This account is a bright, happy whole lotta fun. Uber Prints are brilliant at presenting custom decorated products (particularly t-shirts) in new and imaginative ways – anyone for t-shirt burgers?

3. Threadless

Threadless Insta Profile

With their strong and passionate creative community, Threadless are never short of fine designs.  They certainly have a knack for capturing the concept and feeling behind the design in their product photography.  It is also a great account to follow for design trends.

4. Screenprinters

Screenprinters Insta Profile

This instagram community for screenprinters is a great place to share ideas, opinions, network, see great work or have a good laugh about the highs and lows of screenprint life.

5. The Print Bar

The Print Bar Insta Profile

The Print Bar showcase their work, customers and team in a fun, creative way.  You get the sense that this crew love what they do and are having a blast while they’re at it.

6. This Old Shirt

This Old Shirt Insta Profile

If you love a good vintage, popular culture t-shirt then you’ll love this nostalgic Insta page. Relive all your favourite bands, tv shows, movies and crazes from way back.

7. Ricoma

Ricoma Insta Profile

A great thread for embroidery enthusiasts with gorgeous examples of hand and machine embroidery to feast your eyes upon.

8. Pacific Apparel

Pacific Apparel Insta Profile

This is a fine example of combining Insta friendly content to draw traffic such as scenic locations, delicious food, motivational quotes and fashion shots amongst images of their products and decoration processes.

9. Dapper Ink

Dapper Ink Insta Profile

This dapper crew provide bucket loads of inspiration and fun. For those that appreciate fine design in packaging, typography, branding, posters and apparel you’ll enjoy following this talented team.

10. Seneca Press

Seneca Press Insta Profile

Seneca Press have a keen sense of style, color and presenting their printed product in a distinctive way.  They do a mean flat lay image tying the design in with complimentary objects and cleverly target apparel brands with helpful tips and tricks.

11. Awesome Merch

Awesome Merch Insta Profile

These Leeds leaders in merch have many talents. They brand everything from t-shirts to badges, stickers, posters, tattoos, even drum skins and sticks! This is a great account to take design inspiration from particularly if you love music merch.

12. Xero

Xero Insta Profile

We selected Xero for their ability to take the focus off their own product and make it all about sharing the stories of their customers (accompanied by killer images). This is a great way to show support for your customer’s businesses and build a like minded community.

13. USA Tees

USA Tees Insta Profile

Brooklyn based USA Tees present a stunning portfolio of work on their account using interesting backdrops, settings and locals. Their photography style and color palette ooze cool.

14. Real Thread

Real Thread Insta Profile

Real Thread have a nice way of giving you behind the scenes glimpses into the printing process, their workshop and show their printed tees in a variety of ways to keep it engaging and looking fresh.

15. Screenprinting USA

Screenprinting USA Insta Profile

With a following of over 30,000 followers from just 51 posts they must doing something right! Maybe its their motivational quotes, or their behind the scenes videos or that they do great work, whatever the reason take note.

16. Permaset Aqua

Permaset Insta Profile

Permaset share images of beautiful designs from a variety of customers using their eco friendly inks. A great account to follow for a nice variety of artwork styles, decoration businesses and diverse range of products particularly if you have an interest in sustainability.

17. Super Special

Super Special Insta Profile

This is not your ordinary garment decorator Instagram account. You’ll get  everything from pictures of gorgeous color palettes, rainbow gummy bears, paintings and funny cartoons to surprise and delight your feed.  Their unique charm is a magnet for designers and artists.

18. Blackwater Studios

Blackwater Insta Profile

The monochromatic tones give a nice consistency to this profile. You’ll find clever illustrations, nicely designed packaging, labelling and of course awesome t-shirt designs all looking very striking in classic black and white.

19. Little Mountain Print

Little Mountain Insta Profile

A visit to this account is like a breath of fresh mountain air.  Their imagery has a natural, vintage feel to it, with photos of lovely hand drawings, woodland forests, packaging and printed tees, oh and be sure to check out their amazing branded squeegees!

20. Canva

Canva Insta Profile

Not only a handy visual content creation tool for gorgeous social media posts, but also a great source of inspiration with their Instagram account. Their color palettes, photography, typography, tips and design layouts will no doubt spark ideas for putting some magic into your own posts.

Well that’s it for now. What did you think? Who was your favourite?  Is there someone we missed?  Share your thoughts in the comments below.

 



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