All novelty brands

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

Seattle's long-running purveyor of deliberately absurd novelties, from rubber chickens and tiny hands to bacon-scented everything and finger monsters. The catalogue leans hard on Bigfoot, crows, pickles, cats and axolotls, and much of it is designed in-house.

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.

Party Novelties

Founded in 1900 and describing itself as the world's largest manufacturer of party goods, Beistle makes tissue decorations, cutouts, hats and banners for every occasion. Much of the range has barely changed in decades, which is the appeal.

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.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

A UK designer and wholesale manufacturer of metal and wooden puzzles, party games, escape-room games and trivia sets, including licensed ranges like Sherlock Holmes and Great Minds. It also distributes Metal Earth in some markets.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

A Santa Cruz juggling supplier making balls, rings and clubs and stocking contact juggling, diabolos, LED props, fire wicks, slacklines and unicycles. Everything is aimed at people who actually practise.

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.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

An online curiosity shop that built its audience on short videos demoing each product it sells. The range runs to giant gummy candy, oddball gadgets, puzzles and party games, with many items produced under Vat19's own label.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A UK gift publisher with a broad novelty range: scratch-off posters, adopt-a-plant kits, trivia games, novelty mugs and grow-your-own sets. Products are grouped by joke theme as much as by category.

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.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

A toy and gift wholesaler with a deep bench of impulse novelties, fidgets and classic playthings alongside licensed brands. Much of the small weird stuff on gift-shop counters comes from here.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Manufactures professional juggling balls, clubs and rings plus a wide range of circus props including diabolos and unicycles. Long-standing supplier to working performers and beginners alike.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Calls itself The Skill Toy People and supplies yo-yos, kendama, begleri, diabolos and juggling gear. The catalogue is aimed at people who actually practise rather than casual buyers.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

The company behind Poo-Pourri, the before-you-go toilet spray that turned a bathroom taboo into a cheerfully rude brand built on viral ads. It has since expanded the ~Pourri line into car, pet, shoe and trash fresheners using plant-based essential oils.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Engineers flying rings and discs designed to travel absurd distances, the original Aerobie ring having once held the Guinness record for the farthest thrown object. The same company also made the AeroPress coffee maker.

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.

Subscription Boxes

A monthly membership box of gear and goods sourced from small brands, where members preview and can swap or skip each month's themed box. Boxes bundle an outdoors, barware, grooming or apparel theme into one crate.

Party Novelties

A British board game publisher making party games that are easy to learn and quick to play, with loud packaging and short rulebooks. Titles are designed to get going within a minute of opening the box.

Party Novelties

Best known for giant, ridiculous pool floats shaped like everything from slices of pizza to unicorns, plus oversized drinkware and novelty gifts. The brand trades on scale: if a normal version exists, BigMouth makes an absurdly large one.

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.

Party Novelties

The game studio behind Exploding Kittens, Throw Throw Burrito, Bears vs Babies and You've Got Crabs. Its titles are built around silly art and physical chaos rather than heavy rules, and several started as record-setting crowdfunding campaigns.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Publishes the Metal Earth range of 3D model kits: laser-etched steel sheets you punch out and fold into miniature landmarks, ships and spacecraft with no glue. The finished builds are pure desk ornament.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

A Nebraska toy company and retailer designing its own sensory and puzzle toys, including the Dimpl push-bubble line, alongside a broad STEM and fidget catalogue. Products are filtered by age and developmental stage.

Desk Toys & Fidgets

Designs fidget toys and fidget rings aimed at adults managing restlessness, ADHD and anxiety, with quiet mechanisms suitable for meetings. The products are sold as coping tools rather than playthings.

Gag Gifts & Prank Mail

A British gift retailer and own-brand developer that made its name on outlandish presents, boozy gadgets and irreverent personalised items. It mixes licensed pop-culture goods with its own limited-run oddities.

Weird Tech & Useless Gadgets

A pocket multi-tool for exploring radio protocols and access-control systems, shaped like a toy dolphin with a virtual pet on the screen. It is fully open source and became a cult object among hardware tinkerers.

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.

Party Novelties

A UK designer partyware brand supplying balloons, banners, photo props and themed decoration kits for birthdays, hen parties and weddings. Ranges are built as coordinated themes rather than loose items.