We got another custom shaped drive order through the office today. These drives were custom made for CBTNuggets.com and is the shape of their site logo. In case you did not know, cbtnuggets.com is one the top websites for learning IT and obtaining a certification at home or at the office. They offer video courses that cover Microsoft, Cicso, Oracle, Linux, CompTIA and more. I’ve been browsing their site, and they’ve really got some interesting courses, such as the “Certified Ethical Hacker” lessons.

The drive itself looks great, as you can see from the photos. Their logo lends itself well to be made into a flash drive, because like most standard USB drives, it is shaped like a rectangular prism. The outside of the drive is made of a durable rubberized material that can survive drops and is unscathed by light scratches. All in all, I think these came out great and we hope CBT likes them as much as we do.

Earlier today we received the long awaited order for the popular online dating site, Zoosk.com. This order had to be revised quite a few times along the way to meet the stringent requirements many corporations have for the use of their logos, and since these drives had been in pre-production for quite some time everyone at the office was excited to see how they turned out. I think I can safely say that nobody was disappointed.

The drives were a bit unusual in that they were printed in 5 colors. Typically we print up to 4 colors, or if more colors are required we use full-color print process instead. Zoosk also decided to have the drive body made in a custom color, to match the light blue color in their logo. Clearly their design team knows what they are doing, because these USB drives came out looking great.

Duffy & Shanley, a marketing company, ordered some flash drives and some of our metal display cases to match. The SWM was used and they handed us their PMS color to create a custom body color. The interesting thing about the order was that the USB Drives had no contact or company info on them, the boxes where used to display all that information. That left them a ton of space to print their logo fairly large which looks really good. Below are they pictures, hope to see more creativity in future orders

Not really growing, but we sure made it look that way, well we tried. Usually we try to find more colorful and intricate logos and drives to take pictures of. This order, however, stood out. The simplistic nature of the logo and complexity of the font really made it look good. It shows just how nice the DE White style can be with just a plain print in a nice font with a cool color.

Auntie Anne’s, the pretzel deities if you’ve never heard of them ordered from us and you know what that means, pretzel party for the office! Along with the imprinted DE white drives they ordered we got 10-20 pretzels, just ’cause. I must say both where really awesome. We took some pictures of the drives and I managed to concoct a new signature item: carton-o-usb .

It was very surprising to me that the pretzel made it through the whole photo shoot.

’till next time.

Some of the best looking prints are on white backgrounds so its a big surprise we get few orders for custom colored swivels on the SWM USB Drive. El Dorado Restoration, however, wanted to get a white swivel for their order and as expected they came out very well.

If you want to see more pictures visit the SWM style page on our site or search for SWM

We have been getting a lot of orders for our wooden drives in the paste couple months so we’ve decided to show off some of those orders. This style is our WDR1 Wooden USB it has a couple magnets in the cap to secure itself closed. Most of our wooden models are branded using our burn in process but we can also print them.

This order in particular was meant to showcase old west Americana for an artist. The print and the stained wood made a great match with the artistic style he has.

I thought these where pretty cool. The different blues with the white swivels really came out well. I had some fun with the blue paper background too.

If you want to check out more of these you can visit the SWM swivel USB style page. They are my favorite style, have a 16GB one myself.

We got a cool batch of drives made up for an organization who wanted to get a Lego shaped USB. They where made from our rubberized material. We can mold drives from any materials so technically these could have been exact Lego copies with the addition of a USB. If anyone wants some hard plastic Lego drives let us know, I’m overly eager to build another fort. Or for that matter if you would like a custom shape made from any type of material, please contact us as well.

Finally I am back doing what I enjoy most, taking pictures and rambling! To kick things off I decided to take some pictures of HVA’s order, Historical Auto Association, ’cause who doesn’t like a nice classic car. They got the matte body style not the high gloss and it came out great. You might have also noticed I tweaked the layout slightly. Since I’ve gotten better at taking photos I don’t need to shrink them as much to hide all my mistakes, so hello large format

So that was the DE Matte Black. You can see this style here.

A secret about the background I used to photograph these USB drives. It can from a laptop I had order, the screen was protect by this black fabric material. Turns out it makes a cool background for images.

Thank you for reading.

-Nick