Velociterra Arrives on the Scene
Our parent company Velociterra announces a new branded
identity as our group’s incubator shepherding the
development of Ignition Drawing, Impulse Souvenirs,
Layout Lab, Arrow Emblems, and Emerald City Decoration.
Discovery of Stickers
Our product teams are always experimenting in the shop,
troubleshooting customer issues on our laser engraver,
vinyl cutter, 3D printer, digital printer and sewing machines.
When a couple of customers were in need of a wholesale
die-cut sticker manufacturer, we found a great match for our
capabilities. It didn’t long before we were producing and
selling a few thousand stickers each day!
Impulse Souvenirs Takes Off
With our own manufacturing and software capabilities
in place for pins, patches and medals, and heavy logistical
and packaging expertise, we find a natural extension to
meet the unmet needs of souvenir gift shops and grow
our newest business.
New Brand Unveiled: Ignition Drawing!
Our new brand stresses our differentiation as hand-drawn
vector experts and award-winning embroidery digitizers. We
thought it was a little risky to change the name of two
successful businesses (combining Artwork Source and 24-hour
Artwork), but it’s hard to stand out from the crowd with generic
names and our new logo and brand image is more memorable
and represents our innovative company culture.
Layout Lab Launches
We unveil an online design tool empowering small custom
apparel shops to compete with big online stores. Our
subscription-based service empowers shop customers
to design online, while shops save time, receive
requests for quotes online, and increase revenue!
FREE 30-DAY TRIAL >
Moving Time...
After outgrowing our Tacoma office, we relocate to new digs in
Tukwila, WA, enabling us to bring our re-drawing and digitizing
services and embroidery shop under one roof with our own
on-site production factory!
We Buy HPI Emblem and a Factory!
With the purchase of a patch and embroidery factory in China,
along with the purchase of the established promotional product
supplier company HPI Emblem, we gain 30 years of patch
knowledge and a new scale that comes from millions a year
more in patch volume.
Our Embroidery Expertise Expands
To learn the most current digitizing techniques, we set up our
own embroidery shop giving us the ability to learn fast and
offer more experienced troubleshooting. Our research and
development project evolves into a full-service contract
embroidery shop: Emerald City Embroidery.
We’re up to 66 heads and still growing.
Arrow Emblems Opens!
Thanks to the experience gained through our new ventures in
digitizing, we create a new business line to take advantage of
our new skills and enter the promotional products market as
a narrow-focus supplier to distributors. We build our chenille
patch factory in Rugao, China because we can’t find anyone in
America to match our expectations in quality and delivery time.
Now Offering: Embroidery Digitizing
As Cory’s artwork business booms, demand grows for a new service—
digitizing promotional artwork for embroidery purposes.
Now Offering: Embroidery Digitizing
One month later, Cory launches a simple website
offering vector redraw services.
A New Idea Is Born
Working at his first business, Cory receives a spam email
about $10 art, sparking an idea to offer a raster-to-vector
conversion service online.