Indie Makers & Small Studios

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Makes USA-produced button pins, stickers, magnets and cards using artwork licensed from illustrators including Gemma Correll and Lisa Congdon. It functions as a gift line and a wholesale platform for independent artists.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

Designing and manufacturing what it calls life-improving, joy-bringing products since 1988, Blue Q is best known for socks and zip bags carrying blunt one-liners. Designs are made with independent artists from around the world.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Founded by illustrator Emily McDowell, whose Empathy Cards rewrote what a get-well card could say. The women-owned line covers greeting cards, postcards, fill-in books and gifts aimed at real rather than greeting-card-shaped relationships.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A premier creator and dealer of limited-edition art toys, sitting between sculpture and mass-market collectible. Its lines include blind boxes, Phunny plush and licensed collaborations with The Simpsons, Hello Kitty and McDonald's.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Matt Adrian's studio, trading with The Frantic Meerkat, selling paintings of birds with menacing captions plus cards, magnets and books in the same deadpan register. It describes its output as pretty and funny.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

Makes smart, funny gifts for people who like knowing things: finger puppets of historical figures, disappearing-civil-liberties mugs, and socks bearing dead philosophers. The jokes reward a liberal-arts education.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A Melbourne gift shop, wholesaler and custom design studio that produces artist collaborations, turning contemporary art into tea towels, homewares and oddities. It is the rare gift brand with a genuine art-world roster.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Operating under the motto "if you can't make it nice, make it funny", Chez Gagne sells rude greeting cards alongside a clean-ingredient bath and beauty line with the same sharp voice on the labels.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A Brooklyn and Columbus gift and home-accessories brand that works with independent designers to produce charming, slightly odd objects. Its balancing blocks and puzzle objects are fixtures in museum shops.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A stationery brand created by queer and trans couple Ashley Molesso and Chessie Needham, making greeting cards, art prints and screen-printed tees in a bright, retro palette. They also wrote The Queer Tarot and other books.

Party Novelties

The design studio of James Ernest, who founded Cheapass Games on the premise that you already own dice and pawns so the box should only contain the game. Titles include Kill Doctor Lucky and Button Men.

Party Novelties

The webcomic studio behind Cyanide & Happiness, which also publishes the card games Joking Hazard and Trial by Trolley alongside shirts and merchandise. The humour is bleak and the games are built to match.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A design house that turns ordinary kitchen and household objects into visual jokes, like ice trays and cookie cutters shaped as unexpected things. Products are meant to be functional first and funny second, at giftable prices.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A design studio that describes itself as revelling in the art of the gift, making brightly coloured objects like feathered darts, kites and games, and stocking work from dozens of other independent designers.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

Turns microbes, organs and cells into plush toys a million times their actual size, each packaged with a fact card about the real thing. The common cold as a cuddly toy is a reliably good present for medical students.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

An award-winning letterpress greeting card and design studio founded in San Francisco in 2003 by sisters Eunice and Sabrina Moyle. The work is bright, character-led and built around spreading fun and kindness.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A sock company founded by John Cronin, a young man with Down syndrome, and his father, selling a huge range of loud novelty socks. A share of revenue goes to disability charities and much of the staff has a disability.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A New York design company that licenses work from independent designers worldwide and turns it into affordable, playful objects. Its catalogue spans wind-up toys, solar-powered novelties, quirky tools and desk curiosities.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Makes clever desk and office stuff: fill-in-the-blank books, pads, affirmation cards and gifts built on a single well-executed joke. Everything is designed to sit on a desk and be read by someone else.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A Singapore art-toy studio producing limited-edition figures and blind boxes, often in collaboration with artists like Jason Freeny whose signature move is dissecting familiar characters. Licences include One Piece and Hello Kitty.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

An Israeli design studio making playful kitchen gadgets and everyday objects that add an extra twist to ordinary tools, like character-shaped tea infusers and bottle stoppers. Sold worldwide through its US arm.

Party Novelties

A games and gift publisher with a heavily illustrated house style, producing party games, trivia sets, light card games and jigsaw puzzles. Much of the range is built around a visual gag or a retro-print look.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

An Italian design house known for surreal, deliberately provocative objects: monkey lamps, banana lights and tableware that looks like something else entirely. Products sit between home decor and art object.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

A Calgary electronics outfit selling DIY kits and robot parts, including the Useless Machine kit whose only function is to switch itself off. The catalogue mixes serious components with deliberately pointless builds.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A London design studio making original gifts and novelty products since 1999, from the pencil-sharpening desk tidy to books that double as lamps. Everything is designed in-house and leans on a single clever idea per product.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Founded in 2001 in San Francisco, Super7 makes collectible action figures and toys in deliberately retro formats, including ReAction figures styled after late-1970s packaging. Licences span horror, music and cartoons.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

An in-house art studio turned brand best known for Reversible Plushies, the mood-flipping octopus toys that became a phenomenon, alongside thousands of original graphic tees. Everything is drawn by its own artists rather than licensed in.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Simone Legno's character-driven lifestyle brand, built on a cast of cartoon characters that appear across bags, apparel, blind-box figures and collaborations. The aesthetic is bright, Japanese-influenced and slightly deranged.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A Brooklyn-based marketplace that sells unusual gifts sourced from independent artists and small makers, with a stated focus on handmade and recycled materials. It is a common first stop for the sort of gift you cannot find in a chain store.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

Designer Matty Benedetto builds and sells products that solve problems nobody has, then posts the demos. It is modern Chindogu with a shop attached, and a handful of the running gags get produced as real, buyable objects.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A Barcelona brand making whimsical home decor and gifts, often shaped like food, body parts or pop-culture references. The products are decorative objects that work as jokes in a nicely designed way.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A Portland sock company making bright, strange crew socks, knee-highs and slipper socks since 2004, with many designs carrying a visual pun. It runs an annual design contest for outside artists.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

A Thai design brand making playful household objects, often animal-shaped, with a stated sustainability angle. Items include desk organisers, hooks and containers that hide a small visual joke.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Designs and sells pop-culture collectibles, above all the big-headed Pop! vinyl figures that now cover essentially every licence in existence. Also makes plush, apparel and personalised Pops.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Makes round, oversized plush animals and objects designed purely for hugging, including a steady run of strange ones like plague doctors and cryptids. Many designs come from community voting.

Indie Makers & Small Studios

Makes enamel pins, keychains and charms built around pop-culture properties from games, anime and music, with frequent licensed drops. It helped turn the enamel pin into a fashion accessory.