Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Ninja Transfers, a leader in DTF (direct-to-film) transfers, is expanding into full-color vinyl custom stickers—offering creators, businesses and individuals a new way to express their style or build their brand. “These vibrant,...
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Custom DTF Provider Ninja Transfers Now Offering Blank Apparel
Philadelphia-based Ninja Transfers, a leader in custom direct-to-film (DTF) transfers, is expanding its offerings with the launch of Ninja Blanks, a curated line of premium blank apparel. According to the company, Ninja Blanks is designed “with creators in mind,...
2025 III Awards – Screen-Printing Design of the Year: International Coatings Mask/Mummy Design
A collaboration between master screen printer and sales rep Kieth Stevens and fellow master printer William Jimenez, both with International Coatings, this extraordinary lenticular image (i.e. an image that creates the illusion of depth) is actually a combination of...
2025 III Awards – Digital Decorating Design of the Year: Emerald City Decoration “Down to Earth” Design
In a great example of a decorator combining a number of different techniques, the Pacific Northwest’s Emerald City Decoration employed a combination of direct-to-garment (DTG) and direct-to-film (DTF) to produce this image for a Seattle Space Needle tee, based on a...
2025 III Awards – Embroidery Design of the Year: Quality Punch “Monster Truck” Design
Quality Punch, the winner in our Embroidery Design of the Year Category, actually sent in three separate designs, each one better than the last! According to Quality Punch’s Ria Habib, the work shown here was originally the customer’s idea: “We had fun working on this...
2025 III Awards – Most Innovative Marketing Initiative/Concept: 613 Originals/Not a Food Truck
“How do we do make our booth more inclusive, fun and just plain cool?” That question in turn prompted, Deric Hoch, CEO of custom heat-transfer specialist 613 Originals, to jokingly pitch the idea of a taco stand, in a nod to Long Beach, California (site of one...
2025 III Awards – Green Award for Environmental Business Initiatives/Practices: Madeira Polyneon Green Thread
The poet Emily Dickinson is purported to have said, “If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves.” With this in mind, what better example of the decorated apparel industry’s commitment to sustainability than Madeira USA’s Polyneon...
2025 III Awards – Social Media/Influencer Award: Ninja Transfers
Hard to believe it’s only been a little over two years since Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based custom direct-to-transfer (DTF) specialist Ninja Transfers burst onto the custom decorated-apparel scene. Talk about impact! Suffice it so say, it didn’t take long for the...
2025 III Awards – Best Digital-Decorating/Heat-Pressing Shop: Ninja Printhouse
An offshoot of custom direct-to-film (DTF) provider Ninja Transfers, the newly launched custom decorator Ninja Printhouse is dedicated to making it possible for its customers to say, “yes,” to every order. The result? Over $7,000,000 in sales in the space of a single...
2025 III Awards – Best New Digital-Decorating Tech/Fabric: Gildan Plasma Printing Technology
Terms like “game changing” and “groundbreaking” tend to get thrown around a lot when it comes to new product introductions. However, when it comes to Gildan’s new Plasma Printing Technology, which debuted at the 2025 Impressions Expo in Long Beach, California, this...
2025 III Awards – Best Decorating Company with Sales of $1 Million or Less Annually: Branded Threads
Fast-growing Branded Threads and its founder Sam Lapcevic are in many ways the quintessential home-grown decorated-apparel company. An English major in college, Lapcevic eventually found his way to screen printing, which in turn led to the creation of Branded Threads...
2025 III Awards – Best Decorating Company with Sales of $1 Million or More Annually: Relentless Merch
According to Nebraska-based Relentless Merch, “You can be serious without a suit.” And when it comes to this, dare we say, “relentlessly” hardworking outfit, they clearly mean it. Founded by brothers Matt and Nathan Richardson in the basement of their “college party...