What do you get when you cross one of the most creative musicians today with the NFL? Grails upon grails. This genius collab between Tyler the Creator’s company Golf Wang, has dropped a collection for the 49ers, the Dolphins, Eagles, Panthers, Raiders, Rams, and now the Dallas Cowboys. Our faves? The letterman jackets. Trend prediction for 2025: Every creator with taste and a following will be in on the merch game.
Colnago makes $18k bikes. The kind you spin on 2-wheels. But their story is legend in the bike world and they just dropped a merch collection for their 70th anniversary including this $2k trench and this tonal varsity jacket you can nab for $1900. Escape Collective, a news journal for the cycling world, wrote, “Colnago releases offensively expensive merch line.” The trend we’re watching? High-end brands making merch a gateway to their brand experience. Like how fashion couture labels use merch to create buzz. It's a trend we'll continue to see!
If you are going to skucon and the PPAI Expo, we’ve got a host of activities we’d like to invite you to and we’ve made it simple for you to find them all at commonsku.com/expo. We’re hosting a Breakfast Club, Happy Hours, and Charlie Moscoe and Aaron Kucherawy are leading a session on Connecting your Workflow (bring your team!), and you can even find a handy list of all the commonsku suppliers and their expo booth numbers in one convenient doc. For our breakfast club and happy hours you’ll need to RSVP so hop on over to commonsku.com/expo -- Viva Las Vegas!
What began as a simple distributorship expanded to web design & development, enterprise e-commerce, and digital recruiting services. When John Henry of JH started in 1998, little did he know that JH would soon expand into culture and recruitment services for businesses, consulting, digital services, and more. We talk with John about his leap from promo to strategic services in the latest episode of the skucast!
Join commonsku's Chief Content Officer, Bobby Lehew, as he unpacks the best stories from The Backpack in his session at the PPAI Expo on Monday, Jan 13th at 2:20pm in Breakers J. We'll explore how to map the five biggest trends to a killer sales strategy for 2025, details here!
We’ve scribbled about Erewhon before but it’s simply because the high-end grocery store does brilliant merch. So brilliant that Parisian retailer Merci is bringing their merch to Paris as a collab to sell as a stand-alone fashion brand. When’s the last time you heard of grocery store merch —from a store that does not even have a presence in Paris— making the leap to fashion? What do you think, Backpacker, grail or fail?
The Power Broker is one of the most intense reads in biographical history. It's so incredible that one of the most popular podcasts, 99% invisible, just wrapped a 12 month series about it, dropping an episode each month. Author of The Power Broker, Robert Caro, is a 2x winner of the Pulitzer and for such an illustrious author, they created a cool merch collection worthy of his work, including this co-branded challenger coin for lit-aesthetes who finish either the book or the epic podcast series, plus a Baggu bag to tote your tome. 100% Backpacker approved!
🎉 In case you missed it, in Dec we dropped our 2024 year-end recap and it features a stunner: 1 million projects created on the commonsku platform in 2024 plus a 140% increase in shops and a 30% increase in ePOs! Check it out here!
🎬 Wallpaper magazine nails it: “Movie merch is the new band t-shirt”
😻 Adorbs for cat lovers: This KFC Mofusand collab plush.
😍 JW Anderson’s merch for movie "Queer" is soooo drippy
🚀 China’s Gen Z is into merch in a big way. How big? ACGN (animation, comic, game, novel) merch is estimated to reach over $130 billion by 2030.
🍴 We already knew this but we’re glad Vogue woke up to it: 2024 Was a Ravenous Year for Restaurant Merch
💥 World Chess —makers of the chess sets for the official chess championships— dropped a cool collection for the FIDE championship in Dec, called Rapid & Blitz.
⚡ The new Superman movie drops in July 2025 but the merch for it just landed and it's super fly. 🤓
🐶 Welcome to the age of merch where even your dog has its own tour tee.
🍔 We know the holidays are over but really, Burger King’s holiday merch deserves a standing ovation. Except maybe these BK Sesame Seed Bun Mittens.
💕 Going to Expo? Join us for our Breakfast Club, Happy Hours, and amazing sessions, plus, get your handy-dandy list of commonsku supplier partners! It's all here on one simple site: commonsku.com/expo