3 Ways to Reduce Art Costs

Sometimes we have to charge for the creation or revision of your source material to get the clean art we need in order to create the most eye-catching printed and embroidered garments. Though art preparation services are part of what we offer as a complete decoration and design service, the truth is that though we love creating [...]

3 Tips for Headwear Design Domination

Do you find yourself squinting at your headwear, wondering how the awesome logo you dropped off with your decorator became this awful, cramped and tiny blob? Are you wishing for a retail look like your favorite promotional hat, or that cap you bought to support your favorite team? Do you wish that your headwear had the awesome visual impact of the stuff you see in the stores? We’re here to help.

3 2010 Trends We’ll See Again

This multimedia print and rough-cut appliqué was a hit for Sandia Prep

Though there are many trends we’ve seen rise and fall in the garment decoration industry, some of the processes, applications, and types of decoration that came through our doors this year seem destined either to dovetail into the next fashion-forward craze on the [...]

3 Uses for Custom Patches – We’ve got you Covered

Custom patches are not just for bikers, but they do make great ones!

Everyone knows the classic uses for embroidered patches. Military uniforms are covered in them, police officers almost always have a few, and motorcycle clubs have the biggest, baddest patches around.  Though, as evidenced by the picture on the right, we can indeed [...]

Black Duck’s Embroidery – Always in Fashion

What many of our loyal customers may not know is that Black Duck’s work has become a staple in industry magazines.  Now, when Fall’s brisk mornings turn our customer’s minds to getting a new warm jacket, (embroidered with their company’s logo, of course) , we’d like to give you one last look at summer with [...]

Fast Friends : Black Duck Success Stories

[By popular request, we're re-running edited versions of some of our "success stories" from an e-mail ad campaign that we did in recent years. Here's the first of a few of these fun thumbnail sketches of our apparel solutions that just might help you see what Black Duck can do for you. -ed]

Scotty's [...]

Home on the Range : Black Duck Success Stories

[By popular request, we're re-running edited versions of some of our "success stories" from an e-mail ad campaign that we did in recent years.  Here's the first of a few of these fun thumbnail sketches of our apparel solutions that just might help you see what Black Duck can do for you. -ed]

The Range [...]

Black Duck’s Good Marketing Tools

Aaron was greeted by our locally-famous 3D Pilot Duck sign.

Black Duck was featured in a post by the T-Biz Network’s Aaron Montgomery in a post entitled Examples of Good Marketing Tools in which Aaron gave us great praise for our unique and eye-catching signage, the engaging and professional demeanor of our staff, and the [...]

From the Vault: Black Duck in the Movies (and the Weekly Alibi)

Black Duck co-Owner, Doug Bird, threading an Embroidery Machine

Though the article is more than a bit aged being from 2007, we were deliriously proud at the time to see our own Doug Bird and our embroidery shop featured in Albuquerque’s premier independent newspaper, The Weekly Alibi. They featured us in the article entitled “Set [...]

Black Duck on the Cover of Impressions Magazine

February 2010 Cover of Impressions Magazine

Here at Black Duck we pride ourselves on producing quality garments for every client, no matter if their designs are simple or complex.  That said, we were pleasantly surprised to see that one of our entries into 2009′s Impressions Magazine contest was featured prominently on their cover, and throughout [...]