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By popular demand, FACE MASKS ARE NOW AVAILABLE from ColdstreamKit, you can find them HERE.WHY ARE YOU SUPPLYING FACEMASKS?To be honest, we did not have any intention of supplying facemasks because we didn’t want to appear like we were ‘trying to cash in’ on the current pandemic (if this was the case we would have switched on the website months a..

This blog post will hopefully cover why it’s important for you to register for an account on ColdstreamKit.  If we could only say one thing to you, it would be ‘FREE STUFF’, yep – that’s right, FREE!  We’ll cover this in greater details below, but remember, the ‘FREE STUFF’ we mean relates to people that have created an account on ColdstreamKit.THE..

If you fancy winning a T-Shirt, all you have to do is ............... find the mice!Entering the competition is easy, all you have to do is to crack the code, but before you do that, you’ll have to find the mice.Hidden on the website, on TWO of our products, are TWO ‘secret’ mice holding a ‘secret word’ (just like the mouse in the image above..

We’ve been busy trying to create some designs for Veterans of different ‘Theatres of Conflict’ over the last couple of weeks.We have a couple of designs being finished but the first two designs to land are the Op Telic (Iraq War) Veteran’s Design and the Op Banner (Northern Ireland) Design.If you Google both the conflicts, you’ll find lots of..

Pixel Art is one of those things a little like Marmite, you’ll either love it or hate it.The majority of people seem to like it though, the retro feel from yesteryear.It’s funny, with so many advances in Graphics, Display and Printing, that we should go back to designing something that was the ‘norm’ in the 1980’s.So, with that said, we couldn’t ..

COVID-19 has had a huge impact on everyone, this thing is not going away quickly and we are all doing our best to get through this trying period.As we are re-opening during this period, ColdstreamKit would like to wish you and your family the very best of health, and we hope that you are managing to adapt to everything.Regarding COVID-19, many ..

See the Optical Illusion Mug Collection at this link.It’s great having kids!I’m often reminded of the things I took so much joy in looking at when I was younger, normally when they come across something they have never seen and think it's something new.The other day, one of the kids came running downstairs and asked me to look at a picture that see..

There's something about 'Ambigrams' that fascinates me since finding out about them many years ago, something as simple as a word that can be read one way, but show another story altogether when flipped over (or mirrored).WHAT'S AN AMBIGRAM?The definition of 'Ambigram' is:A design that may be read as the same word, name or phrase (sometimes two dif..

With this blog post, the first of many 'Fantastic 4' posts, we’ll take a look at 4 designs that are available on ColdstreamKit in greater detail.EVERY JOURNEY HAS A BEGINNING – CROW TRIBUTE DESIGN: Firstly we have the ‘Crow’ design.  A tribute to all of us that have stepped through the gates of the Guards Depot, as crows, to leave as men a few mo..

We have created a few ‘8th Day’ designs in the past, in fact, one of the first designs we created many years ago was one of these designs ...................... we wanted to create another.With this ‘8th Day’ design we wanted to play more on the ‘Typography’ (style and appearance of printed things), of the design rather than the graphics – we hop..

The Victorian era was a great turning point for many writers from Charles Dickens to the Bronte Sisters, and there’s something about that style of writing that fascinates me.Many people recognise the style from Pub Boards and Signs, where the notices stand out on a black surface, not really knowing that this is a call back to the Victoria Era.We ..

The second of many 'Fantastic 4' posts, where we take a look at 4 designs that are available on ColdstreamKit in greater detail.ONE TEAM-ONE FIGHT AMBIGRAM:Our first look is something a little strange called an 'Ambigram'.  We have a more in depth blog post HERE about this design but basically, the designs says 'ONE TEAM' when looking at it, and ..