Skip Hop Recalls USB Night Lights for Shock Hazard

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Skip Hop is recalling a USB night light due to a shock hazard. The Moonlight & Melodies night lights have a USB wall power adapter that, according to the CPSC, can break, creating the risk of shock. The recall both the owl and elephant models of the item.…

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HandStands Donates Mousepads to New Elementary School

HandStands, Draper, Utah, gave back to its local community by providing a newly founded elementary school in the Salt Lake City area with custom printed Mouse Mats with the school’s mascot on them. This donation helped supply all faculty members with a mousepad for their classrooms for the new school year. “Here at HandStands, we…

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Designer Shows How Brands Can Tweak Logos to Save on Ink—and Printing Costs

In the 1855 poem “Andrea del Sarto,” Robert Browning included the sagacious sentiment that “less is more,” which many of the Englishman’s artistic successors have proven with aplomb, mainly through their allegiance to minimalism. However, with respect to branding products, many industry figures find themselves inclined to shun the no-frills approach, feeling that all-out attempts…

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Market Like Mickey: How Disney’s Theme-Park Merchandise Can Make You a Better Promotional Products Distributor

The Walt Disney Co. is a marketing juggernaut. But for all its massive movie advertising campaigns and omnipresent toy commercials, Disney’s smaller marketing efforts might be even more impressive—particularly the way it uses promotional products in its theme parks. Let’s take a look at some recent examples and see what promotional products distributors can learn from the Mouse House…

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Vehicle Wrap Typo (Almost) Becomes Weapon In Alabama Senate Race

Typos: We hate to see them, and yet we can’t quite get enough of them. Sometimes, typos work for a promotion’s advantage. And sometimes they result in an all out internet frenzy—or in the case of this typo, a political backlash. Advocacy group Great America Alliance sponsored a bus to bring Sarah Palin and former White…

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