Double-sided blanket

Another project in our work with the iDocument brand was designing and producing a double-sided blanket with elements of the brand’s visual identity.

The blanket was part of the company’s Christmas gifts.

Client

Technology Jacquard knit

Process

From design to finished product

The design of both sides of the blanket alongside the finished product. The reverse of the blanket is the colour negative of the front.

Double-sided blanket – design — Design visualisation

Double-sided blanket – finished product — Finished product

Specification

Technical details

The blanket is made in a jacquard stitch with two yarn colours at once, so it has two fully-fledged sides instead of one printed side. The same pattern reads as navy on a turquoise background, and as turquoise on navy.

Project scope

Double-sided knitted blanket
Company Christmas gifts

Material: 100% acrylic
Dimensions: 130 × 170 cm

Case study

A custom company blanket – how did we do it?

Challenge

A Christmas gift that stays in everyday use

Company Christmas gifts often impress only at the moment they are handed over. For iDocument we wanted to create a personalised company gift that would be used long after the holidays were over.
Another challenge was reproducing the brand identity – a symbol made up of an arc, a rectangle and a dot that together form a smile. An ordinary print on a ready-made blanket would not have fully captured the character of this design.
Solution

A personalised jacquard blanket with the pattern knitted into the fabric

We made the blanket in a two-colour jacquard stitch from turquoise and navy yarn. The pattern was knitted directly into the fabric, so the logo and identity elements are an integral part of the blanket, not a print applied to finished material.
The jacquard pattern also gave a double-sided colour effect – the reverse is the negative of the front. One side shows a navy symbol on a turquoise background, the other a turquoise one on navy.
We completed the composition with a pattern of logo symbols representing smiles along the edges and the iDocument logotype placed near the edge of the blanket.
Result

A personalised company blanket with two looks

The result was a company blanket that combines a practical gift with the full brand identity. The double-sided pattern lets its look change without losing the branding, so the product stays recognisable whichever way it is laid out.
The blanket complemented the earlier collection of personalised iDocument products – a hat, a scarf and pins – creating a consistent set of company gifts based on the brand identity.