Good starting audiences
- Family gift buyers
- Pet owners
- Memorial and milestone shoppers
Design structures
- Photo collage
- Large portrait
- All-over repeat
Works well
- Large recognizable subjects
- Moderate-density patterns
- Readable names
Avoid
- Tiny faces
- Important edge details
- Subtle low-contrast texture
Personalization options
- Family names
- Photos
- Memorial dates
Production notes
- Pile, weave, and blanket size change sharpness and placement.
File checks
- Size-specific template
- Photo resolution
- Edge allowance
Common risks
- Soft faces
- Color shift
- Edge crop
Sources and specifications
Supplier and platform requirements change. Recheck the current page before production or publication.
Back to the POD GuideGuide chapters
- Research & methods
- What POD is—and what AI changes
- The complete POD workflow
- Find markets, people, and trends
- Choose products and build a range
- Ways to make POD artwork
- Skills and an asset knowledge base
- Build an AI toolkit
- Match design, product, and print method
- Prepare print-ready files
- Design reliable personalization
- Mockups, listings, pricing, and testing
- Rights, platform rules, and your 2027 plan