Good starting audiences
- Home decor shoppers
- Couples and families
- Pet gift buyers
Design structures
- Centered portrait
- Square quote
- Seamless surface pattern
Works well
- Single subject
- Square layouts
- Patterns with edge tolerance
Avoid
- Faces at corners
- Thin edge borders
- Critical details on seams
Personalization options
- Names
- Portraits
- Household roles
Production notes
- Cut-and-sew products need bleed and seam allowance.
File checks
- Front/back template
- Seam allowance
- Square crop
Common risks
- Subject distortion after stuffing
- Misaligned front/back
- Seam 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