ABOUT US

The Design Shop Story

Design Shop is a family run business that started in 2005.

The Business has started very small selling signs on trademe, we progressed through the years to service the Central Otago region, supplying businesses and sports clubs with advertising and apparel.

In 2015 we started to gear up for sports apparel when disaster struck we had a fire that wiped out our business, it took us a year to get back up and running.

We had to start from scratch with what we knew which was advertising for local businesses, with the dream of moving back into apparel, slowly we began branding T-shirts and hoodies again, lighting a spark to move back into this market with bigger goals.

in 2017 our director and lead designer/machine operator had a sever rugby injury lucky to still be walking it has taken Shane a year to get back to semi-normal lifestyle, but with these adversaries gave us more drive to do what we love.

Shane has been heavily involved in sport with rugby, martial arts, and ice hockey, with small clubs seeing them struggle to raise funds always doing what he could to help with sponsorship and cheaper products.
He felt there could be a better way to help these clubs raise money, and then it happened, make a free online store for clubs that sell apparel eureka he thought.

Later that month while dropping off some hoodies at the local school for some rugby kids, he started to talk to the school about t-shirts and how Design Shop could offer the same opportunity as the sports clubs, and like that, in September 2018 the Design Shop online Apparel store was Born.

At Design Shop we want to delivery Quality made products and designs for our clients and vendors.

We plan to start with t-shirts and hoodies, and the plan will be to move forward to Dye Sublimation and Embroidery, and more if you have any ideas feel free to let us know.

We feel the best way to help you is with support and communication.