Mascot Makers, Designers, Experts & Know-It-Alls
We’re with you from from concept to design to finished mascot. We can also guide you with your mascot strategic plan, mascot training and mascot safety Continue reading
A Mascot Maker's Musings:
A Truck Mascot with Blinking Lights!
An “Ooooh & Aah” Truck Video Video We made a Truck mascot named, Safety Sammy, for Trucking Moves America Forward (TMAF). It has lights that turn on & they blink! The video above is one of our “ooh & aah” … Continue reading
Racing Presidents – Not Just for the Ballpark
Racing Presidents aren’t just for the ballpark. A racing character is a way to celebrate new leadership, bring people in history to life in a BIG BIG way and strengthen a sponsorship message. Continue reading
Three Questions you need to answer about your Mascot Brand!
David Raymond, aka the Mascot Doctor, was the original Phillie Phanatic performer. He is the founder of modern mascotting. He is the guy who walked the walk and perfected the wiggle. Dave is our guest blogger for “A Mascot Makers’s … Continue reading
Mascots are Brand Awareness Monsters
We call mascots Brand Awareness Monsters. They are BIG, somewhat unmanageable, but also fun and exciting. Lives change in the presence of a mascot: Say you’re looking at a couple of schools. Both are terrific schools. at one school, the … Continue reading
Making Mascot Shoes
Mascot shoes are gems. When people come into our mascot studio, they love love love the mascot shoe we make. over the mascot shoes. They are adorable, Our mascots shoes are gems. There is a lot of physics & … Continue reading
9 Reasons to Get a Custom Mascot Costume
Why get a big bundle of fuzz and foam with a big head? 1. Mascots are media magnets. No matter how good-looking and socially savvy your marketing people are, they will not get the attention a mascot gets by just … Continue reading
Mascot Fabulousness – Bucky the Buccaneer
There is a moment, when sculpting a big mascot head, or designing hugely, fabulous mascot clothes when I feel the mascot coming to life. For Bucky the Buccaneer, a mascot we made for Barry University, it was when we were making his fabulous, Buccaneer coat. … Continue reading
Gritty, the New Mascot for Philadelphia Flyers Hockey
There’s a new mascot in Mascotland. His name is Gritty. He’s caused a stir and we’ve noticed. So has everybody else. He is everywhere. He’s on TV, he’s all over social media and he’s on the tip of everybody’s … Continue reading
A Grocery Bag Mascot for Kroger
A Grocery Bag Mascot The Kroger Grocery Bag Mascot was a delicious project! The Bag is named, “Big K”. He’s a bounitiful Bag w/ a nice bowtie & a bevy of glorious groceries. We designed the Kroger products to have … Continue reading
A Guide to Getting a Custom Mascot – Mascots 101
It’s far from a common purchase. It’s so uncommon, people don’t have the language for ordering a custom mascot costume. If you’re thinking about a mascot, but don’t know where to start, AvantGarb’s Mascots 101 is for you. Think of it as … Continue reading
A Thoroughly Modern Library Mascot
A New Book Mascot for the Indianapolis Library The Indy Library wanted to update the mascot. They wanted the big book to be a bit smaller so it could be more easily transported … Continue reading
The Mascot Studio – Mascot Makers in the Old Car Factory
The Mascot Studio – Location, location, location! AvantGarb is in the coolest building in the United States. Way back in the day, it was a car factory. Now we make mascots here in our mascot studio. We’re the only ones … Continue reading
Cocktail Can Mascots – Yes, Cocktails in a Can!
We just finished some Cocktail Can mascots for Coppercraft Distillery, in Holland Michigan. If I saw these cans walking around, I would head into the store to buy a gin and tonic. They are gorgeous cans! Beer can mascots, … Continue reading
Getting Selfies with Mascots
We all take selfies We take selfie w/ friends and selfies with family. We take selfies with iconic places like the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower. …and we take selfies with branded, custom mascots. We take selfies with … Continue reading
With Mascots it’s ROI and ROL (Return on Loyalty)
We are all looking for the Return on Investment (ROI). There are ways to measure ROI, Mascot are rarely understood as a factor in ROI. The mascot falls into that great unknown category called, “other”. Think about a mascot as ROL … Continue reading