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ABOUT US

Connell Studio designs and produces custom apparel and merchandise for teams, student organizations, artists, athletes, and businesses. We source the garments, manage production, and handle every order from start to final delivery.

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WHAT WE BUILD

Custom apparel, designed and produced for your team.

Custom Apparel

Custom Apparel

Tees, hoodies, and sweats designed and produced to spec.

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Design Services

Design Services

Logos, graphics, and artwork built for print.

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Brand Kits

Brand Kits

Full collections built around one consistent design system.

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SAC Soccer

Teams

SAC Soccer

Custom team hoodie with sleeve personalization.

Alpha Sigma Phi

Organization

Alpha Sigma Phi

Custom event tees and campus drops.

Phi Kappa Psi

Organization

Phi Kappa Psi

Greek chapter apparel with signature graphics.

RUFSTR Racing

Team

RUFSTR Racing

Custom merch for a powerboat racing team.

DJ Bray

Artist

DJ Bray

Stage tees and tour merch for a touring DJ.

Music Production Club

Organization

Music Production Club

Custom tees for an on-campus music collective.

MERCH SERVICES

OUR WORK

Custom merch built for teams, companies, artists, athletes, and organizations, from concept through production.

Connell Studio handles sourcing, design, mockups, production, and fulfillment through one creative partner.

TEAMS  ·  COMPANIES  ·  ARTISTS  ·  ATHLETES  ·  ORGANIZATIONS

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Custom Apparel

RUFSTR Racing

  • Redesigned team logo
  • Custom DTG shirts and hoodies
  • Embroidered hats and duffle bags (custom thread)

Behind the Scenes

RUFSTR boat in boathouse
RUFSTR cockpit instruments on the water

CLOTHING & MERCH

Custom apparel collection, DTG · Embroidery · Screen Print

RUFSTR White Tee
RUFSTR Grey Tee
RUFSTR Blue Hoodie
RUFSTR Grey Hoodie
RUFSTR Hats
RUFSTR Bag

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We design and produce custom apparel for teams, organizations, and brands.

Custom Apparel

Garage 162

  • Redesigned team logo
  • Custom DTG team & pit crew shirts

Behind the Scenes

Garage 162 #162 leading the pack
Garage 162 high-speed corner
Aprilia RSV Garage 162 overhead
KYT helmet on Garage 162 bike
Garage 162 pit lane
Garage 162 Brembo brake rotor
Garage 162 racing gloves
Garage 162 championship win

CLOTHING & MERCH

Garage 162 White Tee Design

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We design and produce custom apparel for teams, organizations, and brands.

Brand Identity & Apparel

Premier Services Group

  • Redesigned company logo
  • Company branded performance gear & embroidered polos
  • Custom brand kit for social & digital use

Media Content

Media coming soon
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CLOTHING & MERCH

Premier Services Short Sleeve
Premier Services Black Polo
Premier Services Long Sleeve

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We design and produce custom apparel for teams, organizations, and brands.

Custom Apparel

DJ Bray

  • Artist merchandise design
  • Custom artist stage shirts

Behind the Scenes

DJ Bray performing
DJ Bray show

CLOTHING & MERCH

DJ Bray Halloweekened White Tee
DJ Bray Margville Black Tee
DJ Bray MTV White Tee
DJ Bray Save A Horse

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We design and produce custom apparel for teams, organizations, and brands.

Custom Apparel

HROMY

  • Artist merchandise design
  • Custom DTF stage shirt: Fillmore Rodeo Show

Behind the Scenes

HROMY at Pioneer DJ setup
HROMY mid-set

CLOTHING & MERCH

HROMY White Stage Tee

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We design and produce custom apparel for teams, organizations, and brands.

What We Produce

From a single custom piece to a full collection, here's what we build.

Corporate Apparel

  • Branded polos and button-downs
  • Uniforms for trades & field crews (landscaping, construction, property services)
  • Corporate workwear & staff gear
  • Team-issued tees, hoodies, and performance layers

College Merch

  • Rush tees & recruitment drops
  • Custom chapter apparel (hoodies, crewnecks, sweats)
  • Event tees for formals, retreats & campus events
  • Athlete & club gear built for student orgs

Custom Accessories

  • Embroidered hats & snapbacks
  • Custom branded bags & duffle bags
  • Lanyards, patches & woven labels
  • Add-ons that complete the corporate or campus kit

OUR PROCESS

HOW IT WORKS

Four steps from brief to delivery. Simple, consistent, and built around your timeline.

Digital mockups — visual approval before production.

One point of contact — clear updates from one creative partner.

Production sign-off — nothing moves forward until approved.

01

Submit Your Brief

Tell us what you need: quantity, garment type, deadline, and design direction.

02

Design & Source

We build the artwork, source the right garments, and prepare a digital mockup.

03

You Approve

Review your mockup and sign off. No production starts without your approval.

04

Produce & Deliver

Your order goes into production, gets quality-checked, and ships directly to you.

Finished Product Gallery

Real decorated garments from actual orders. Not mockups. This is what comes off the production floor.

Decoration Methods

We match the right technique to your design, garment, budget, and order size.

METHOD FIT

Clean graphics, fabric type, detail level, and order size all affect which decoration method makes the most sense.

01

Screenprinting

The classic look. Ink pressed directly into the fabric for a clean, lasting finish.

MIN ORDER  12+ pieces

BEST FOR  Team gear, bulk drops, bold graphics

02

Direct to Film

Full-color transfer that works on almost any fabric with strong detail and flexibility.

MIN ORDER  No minimum

BEST FOR  Small runs, complex artwork, samples

03

Embroidery

Stitched directly into the garment for a premium finish that signals quality.

MIN ORDER  12+ pieces

BEST FOR  Hats, jackets, polos, premium apparel

04

Direct to Garment

Printed into the fabric fibers for detailed one-off pieces and soft garment feel.

MIN ORDER  No minimum

BEST FOR  Single pieces, prototypes, detailed artwork

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Ready to Start?

Tell us what you need made and we'll help turn the idea into a clean, production-ready merch package.

BUILT FOR  Teams, organizations, artists, companies, events, and campus drops.

WHAT TO SEND

Project details we need.

01

Garment type and quantity

02

Logo, artwork, or design direction

03

Deadline or target event date

04

Budget range or preferred quality level

Built for Print.

Whether you need a logo for your business or a graphic for your next event, our design team can help bring your vision to life.

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We design and produce custom apparel for teams, organizations, and brands.

One Design System.
Every Piece.

A Brand Kit is a coordinated multi-piece order where every garment, hat, and bag shares the same design language. Same logo, same colorway, same feel — one order, one creative direction, start to finish.

WHAT A BRAND KIT INCLUDES

Logo & Graphics

Production-ready graphics that work across embroidery, screen print, DTF, and DTG.

Garments

Tees, hoodies, crewnecks, and polos sourced and built to the same spec.

Accessories

Hats, duffle bags, and extras that carry the same visual system across the full kit.

POWERBOAT RACING TEAM

RUFSTR Racing

A full brand kit for a competitive powerboat racing team. One design system applied across every piece from garments to gear.

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RUFSTR featured design

GREEK ORGANIZATION

Alpha Sigma Phi

Multiple drops across a full semester, each built on a consistent design system that carried across tees and embroidered accessories.

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Alpha Sigma Phi featured

BUILD YOUR KIT

We design and produce custom apparel for teams, organizations, and brands.

Founder Stories

Chapter 01

FOUNDER STORIES

Long-form conversations with the founders, builders, and risk-takers shaping what comes next. We sit down with the people behind the brands, and ask the questions that matter. How did you start? What does it actually cost? Where are you taking this?

Episodes

Founder Stories Episode 01
Coming Soon Episode 02
Athlete Stories

Chapter 02

ATHLETE STORIES

Inside the lives, mindsets, and missions of the competitors we document and build with. Racers, climbers, grinders, we follow the athletes who don’t wait for permission and tell their stories the way they deserve to be told.

Episodes

RUFSTR Racing Athletes Stories Episode 01
Coming Soon Episode 02
Artist Stories

Chapter 03

ARTIST STORIES

The creative minds shaping culture, their process, their vision, and where they’re headed. We go deep with the musicians, designers, and visual artists who are building something that lasts.

Episodes

Coming Soon Episode 01
Coming Soon Episode 02

Brand Apparel

Real Property Management

  • Custom screenprinted hoodies
  • Custom brand kit for digital use

CLOTHING & MERCH

RPM Grey Hoodie

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Custom clothing built for your brand. Let's design something worth wearing.

Brand Identity & Apparel

Evolve Home Hub

  • Redesigned company logo
  • Custom brand kit for social & digital use
  • Custom screenprinted hoodies
  • Carhartt brand sourcing

CLOTHING & MERCH

Evolve Black Hoodie
Evolve Blue Hoodie
Evolve Green Hoodie
Evolve Grey Hoodie

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Custom clothing built for your brand. Let's design something worth wearing.

Content Production & Apparel

Garage 162

  • Custom DTG team & pit crew shirts
  • Branded apparel design

CLOTHING & MERCH

Garage 162 White Tee Design

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Custom clothing built for your brand. Let's design something worth wearing.

Custom Apparel

Bass Fishing Club

  • Custom DTF hoodies & tees
  • Embroidered hats with custom patch
  • Design & vector services

CLOTHING & MERCH

Bass Fishing Grey Tee
Bass Fishing Club White Tee A
Bass Fishing Club White Tee B
Bass Fishing Club Grey Hoodie
Bass Fishing Club Grey Hoodie Design B
Bass Fishing Hat Mockup
Bass Fishing Trucker Hat Mockup

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Custom clothing built for your brand. Let's design something worth wearing.

Apparel Design & Branding

Music Production Club

  • Custom apparel design
  • Adopted as the official club logo
  • Brand kit for social & digital use

CLOTHING & MERCH

Music Production Club Black Tee

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Custom clothing built for your brand. Let's design something worth wearing.

Artist Partnership

DJ Bray

  • Artist merchandise design
  • Custom artist stage shirts
  • Event & tour merch

CLOTHING & MERCH

DJ Bray Halloweekened White Tee
DJ Bray Margville Black Tee
DJ Bray MTV White Tee
DJ Bray Save A Horse

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Custom clothing built for your brand. Let's design something worth wearing.

Event Coverage & Merch

Hromy

  • Artist merchandise design
  • Custom DTF stage shirt

CLOTHING & MERCH

Hromy White Stage Tee

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Custom clothing built for your brand. Let's design something worth wearing.

Custom Apparel

Alpha Sigma Phi

  • DTF & screenprinted tees, hoodies & sweatpants
  • Custom puff embroidered hats
  • Custom brand kit for social & digital use
  • Multiple event collections

CLOTHING & MERCH

Alpha Sig Dirty Myrtle White Tee
Alpha Sig Boxing Black Tee
Alpha Sig Blue Alpha White Tee
Alpha Sig White Rodeo Tee
Alpha Sig Basic Black Tee
Alpha Sig Members Black Tee
Alpha Sig Black Split Letter Hoodie
Alpha Sig Grey Split Letter Hoodie
Alpha Sig Both Sweatpants
Alpha Sig Grey Frost Letter Hoodie
Alpha Sigma Phi Hat

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Custom clothing built for your brand. Let's design something worth wearing.

Custom Apparel

Phi Kappa Psi

  • Custom DTF tees
  • Screen printed sweatshirts & sweatpants

CLOTHING & MERCH

Phi Psi Black Live Ever Die Never Tee
Phi Psi White Live Ever Die Never Tee
Phi Kappa Psi Snake Hoodie
Phi Kappa Psi Sweatpants

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Custom clothing built for your brand. Let's design something worth wearing.

Brand Identity & Apparel

Premier Services Group

  • Redesigned company logo
  • Company branded performance gear & embroidered polos
  • Custom brand kit for social & digital use

CLOTHING & MERCH

Premier Services Short Sleeve
Premier Services Black Polo
Premier Services Long Sleeve

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Custom clothing built for your brand. Let's design something worth wearing.

Team Apparel

SAC Soccer

  • Custom screen printed team hoodies
  • Personalized player name & number
  • Artwork design & editing services

CLOTHING & MERCH

SAC Soccer Apparel

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Let's build something that moves.

Our Story

Connell Studio started with a simple goal: design and produce custom apparel that people are proud to wear. Since then, we’ve worked with student organizations, athletic teams, artists, and small businesses to bring their ideas to life — from first sketch to finished product. We manage the full apparel process: concept and design, garment and material sourcing, and coordination with trusted production partners who handle printing, embroidery, and fulfillment. Every project is built the same way — with attention to fit, quality, and turnaround, so what you imagine is what shows up at your door.

Connell Studio

Studio Creators
Internship Program

1–3 Academic Credits Per Semester

Studio Creators is a semester-long internship for students who want more than a classroom. You'll work on live client projects, build a professional portfolio, and earn academic credit while doing it.

What You Get

  • Real clients, real deliverables, real portfolio work
  • Hands-on experience across apparel design, sourcing, and production coordination
  • Direct mentorship from Connell Studio's founder
  • 1–3 academic credits depending on scope and hours
  • A professional portfolio piece ready for any interview

Who We're Looking For

  • Undergrads in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field
  • Creative self-starters who take initiative
  • People who want to learn by doing, not watching
  • Students with a camera, a laptop, and drive

What You'll Do

  • Assist on merch design, mockups, and production coordination
  • Support client onboarding and order tracking
  • Help source garments and materials for active projects
  • Document finished apparel projects as portfolio case studies

Ready to Apply?

Submit your resume and portfolio to be considered for the Studio Creators program. Students accepted coordinate directly with their university registrar to apply academic credits. We support 1–3 credits per semester based on scope and hours.

Email your resume and portfolio to team.connellstudio@gmail.com with the subject line: "Studio Creators Application"

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to the questions we get most often about custom apparel orders and how we work.

For screen printing and embroidery, the minimum is 12 pieces per order. Direct to Film (DTF) and Direct to Garment (DTG) have no minimums, making them ideal for small runs, samples, or one-off pieces. If you are unsure which method fits your order, we will help you figure it out after your brief.
Most orders are completed and shipped within 2 to 3 weeks from the date you approve your mockup. Rush timelines are available depending on order size and method. We will always be upfront about the timeline before production starts so there are no surprises.
We handle design as part of the process. You do not need to come in with final artwork. Bring your idea, your brand assets, and any references you like. We build the artwork from there and send you a digital mockup before anything moves to production. If you already have print-ready files, we can work with those too.
Yes, always. Every order goes through a mockup approval step before anything is produced. You review the design on the actual garment, request changes if needed, and sign off before production begins. Nothing gets made without your approval.
Pricing depends on the garment type, decoration method, quantity, and number of print locations. We provide a full quote after your brief so you know the exact cost before committing. Larger quantities bring the per-unit cost down. We are transparent about margins and do not charge hidden setup fees.
Yes. Merch orders ship anywhere in the US. If you are outside our immediate area, reach out and we will make it work.
We back our work. If something is wrong on our end, we fix it or remake it. Because every order goes through a mockup approval before production, most issues are caught before they happen. If a production error occurs, we take responsibility. Our goal is that every client can show the finished product and be proud of it.
Fill out the contact form on our site or email us directly at team.connellstudio@gmail.com. Tell us what you need, your timeline, and your budget if you have one. We will respond within one business day and take it from there.

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