Mascot Musings

What have we been doing recently at Avant Garb Mascots? Well —- We just finished making the Dukes Mayonnaise mascot, Tubby. If you watched the Dukes Classic, you saw Tubby movin’ & groovin’ across the field https://starexponent.com/tubby-at-dukes-mayo-classic-bowl/html_eb6f3743-6999-5c39-8147-77abdb4e462d.html Tubby was a hugely satisfying mascot to make. We were delighted that the…

The mascot adventure usually begins with and email. Hancock Health had a sweet drawing of an orange frog and they wanted a Hank the Frog mascot. Here at Avant Garb Mascots, we got busy designing the mascot. Hank the Frog We picked out some nice, soft, durable fabrics for Hank….

Familiar products in mascot form, with arms and legs are endearing – they make us friends with the product. Mascots are the warm-fuzzies of marketing —they bring all of us together.

Nobody thinks about soybean videos – we do! – Click below the pics. We’ve made a few Soybean mascots. The very 1st was Bennie the Bean for Indiana Soybean growers. Bennie has shown up at the Indiana State Fair, as well as Indiana Soybean events for over 20 years. He’s…

Even during the quarantines and the pandemic, the mascots reach out to us with —well—goofy joy. Like us, the mascots have adjusted. They totally get social media. They groove with ZOOM. They easily interact with fans, students and customers no matter what the circumstances. They are with us in on…

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 showing up. 2. You posted a photo of your kid (or…

  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” studio videos. We worked closely with the visioneers at Story Partners on this mascot. First, our designer made…