A custom book takes about two months from starting the design to arriving — roughly two weeks to an approved digital sample, two weeks for the physical sample, and three weeks to print and ship.
So work backwards from the date you need them in hand. If you want books distributed in the first week of December, the design needs to start around the beginning of October. For a holiday party mid-December, early-to-mid October. Onboarding kits and client gifts with no fixed date are easier — but the ones tied to a season are not.
If your date is already tight, say so in the form. We will tell you honestly whether it is achievable before you commit to anything, and what would have to change to make it work.
The test of a corporate gift is not whether people are polite about it in the room. It is whether it still exists in March.
Almost every corporate gift is aimed at the employee — a mug, a hoodie, a gift card. A coloring book their child sits down with is a gift to the household. That is a different feeling, and it is the reason people mention it.
The honest test of a corporate gift is whether it is still around in March. Branded merchandise usually is not. A finished coloring book ends up on a fridge.
Not a stock design with a logo dropped in the corner. The artwork is drawn from your team, your office, your city, or whatever the occasion actually is.
Ten books or a thousand. You can run one shared design across the whole company, or make each one about a different person — both are normal work for us.
A book starring your team, or one their children can actually colour over the break. It goes home, which is more than most holiday gifts manage.
A custom book featuring the client's own office, team or city. Harder to throw away than a bottle, and considerably harder to forget.
Give a new hire something for their family on day one. It signals what kind of company they have joined more than a branded notebook does.
Employees bring children to the summer picnic or the holiday party. This is the thing that keeps them occupied and gets taken home.
A booth giveaway people keep. Most conference swag is triaged into a hotel bin before the flight home; a coloring book leaves in the bag.
Work anniversaries, retirements, a team hitting something big. A book about the actual people involved beats a plaque nobody displays.
Signing off on a custom gift for the whole company is a real risk, so we removed the part that makes it one. Everything before the bulk order is free.
More detail on minimums, artwork and proofing in the procurement FAQ.
Tell us the occasion, quantity and date. We respond within one business day.
Working to a deadline? Here is exactly where the two months goes. Wondering what moves the price? The four cost drivers. Or see all bulk options.