An artist who knows apparel. A printer who knows what sells.
David Hardie has been creating logos, mascots, and custom apparel for churches, camps, and brands for over twenty years. People come to him because they want work that looks like them, not like everyone else.
Need a logo, a mascot, or original illustration without the apparel? That's a standalone service too.
One business day response. Every time.
Managed start to finish.
You've thought about Fiverr. VistaPrint. That AI logo generator.
Here's how that usually goes. You find something fast and cheap on both fronts: a logo from a generator, shirts from whoever's running a deal. They send you something back. It's technically done. It's just not right. The art doesn't feel like your organization. The shirts are the wrong weight for what your people actually do in them. The color on screen looked nothing like the color on fabric.
Because cheap in two places compounds.
The design looked fine on a monitor. On the actual shirt, in real light, on a real person, something was off. The blank was too thin. The print placement was wrong. The sizing didn't account for who was actually wearing them. Nobody could explain it. They just didn't reach for it.
We needed shirts for camp. We found something online that looked okay. The kids didn't want to wear it on day one. We ended up with a pile of shirts and a budget we couldn't get back.
You know what's really expensive?Merch that doesn't sell.
David doesn't just make apparel. He figures out what will work before it ever goes to print.
The difference between merch people wear and merch that ends up in a drawer almost never comes down to the printer. It comes down to the art. Is it something your people feel proud to wear? Does it actually look like your brand? Does it hold up on fabric, in real light, on real people?
David has been answering those questions for churches, camps, schools, and brand builders for over twenty years. His eye is what you're buying. But it's not just the art. It's knowing which blank holds up, which products your people will actually use, how to build a merch line that sells through instead of collecting dust. The sourcing, the product selection, the production, the delivery: that's how the art gets to you in a form that works.
This is what you're paying for. Not a printer. An artist who knows what will actually work, and handles everything so you don't have to.
Four steps. No mystery. No upload-and-pray.
We talk
A conversation about what you're trying to build. Your brand, your audience, what you want people to feel when they see it. You're talking to David, not a sales rep, not a chatbot. No sales pitch. No upsell.
You get a quote
A written quote with clear pricing options so you can pick what fits your budget and your project. No quote generator pretending to know what your work should cost.
Deposit unlocks the work
Once the deposit lands, the work starts. Mockups, concepts, revisions . We work through it together until it's right.
Final payment, final delivery
You approve the final. Payment clears. Everything ships or delivers. Done right the first time.
What it looks like when it works.
Last summer, a youth pastor came to David with 200 shirts they needed for camp. They'd already lost a year's worth of shirts to a printer who got the color wrong and delivered late. David spent forty minutes on the phone walking them through fabric weight, print placement, and which design tweaks would make the kids actually wear them on Day One.
The shirts showed up early, in the right color, and the camp director sent David a photo of every kid wearing one at opening assembly.
That's the difference.
What happens if you go the other way?
Generic art is invisible. And invisible merch doesn't get worn.
You spend the budget.
And now you have a closet full of shirts nobody feels proud to wear. Most of our clients don't have the budget to do it twice.
You lose the connection.
Bad merch gets forgotten. Or worse, it becomes a running joke. Nobody asks for next year's shirt.
You start over.
Different designer. Different problems. Same result. Until you find someone whose eye you actually trust.
Two ways we can help.
Custom Apparel & Merch
Screen printing, embroidery, headwear, drinkware, patches. One design or a full branded line.
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Custom Artwork & Logos
Original logos, mascots, and illustrations drawn from scratch. No templates, no AI.
See how it works →Want to see finished work? View the portfolio →
Every project starts with a conversation.
Two minutes to tell us what you're building. One business day to a real response from a real artist.
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