Category: Bespoke

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Mountain bike race sticker set

The request

Katie emailed us “I’m interested in ordering a custom sticker set. We already use TomTags for our autistic son and love them! At the end of August our son is taking part in some mountain bike races. We’d love to have a set to prepare him for what to expect. Maybe something like: start line-go-pedal fast-finish line-stop-wait.”

The discussion

We were able to source all the symbols that Katie needed from the Widgit library. We also included a few extras we thought might come in useful including a helmet and a medal!

The result

A bespoke set of symbols heading off for what we hope will be a winning weekend for Katie’s son!

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DZ Circus School

tomtags display set up for dz circus school

The request

“Hi. I’m a Director of a not-for-profit Community Circus School and we teach Autism Friendly classes that are evolving into what we are calling CSPD (Circus Skills for people with Disabilities). I feel some visual aids would be helpful for some of the students we have and love your product. We would love to be able to create stickers for the circus equipment we use but would prefer the option to print our own – is this something we could work with you to have a Circus Sheet of stickers? We also know the favourite colours throughout the group are blue and red so we’d like to choose our tags to match if possible!”

The discussion

Coral sent us some ideas of the circus equipment they wanted symbols for so we started by checking if the Widgit library would have anything suitable that we could use under our licence agreement. Due to the niche nature of the request, we found we couldn’t source all the items we needed from their library so Coral sent a few sketches of her own that she wondered if we could use. These looked amazing! We advised her to make sure all the symbols had clear black outlines and bright block colours for best impact and Coral set to work producing DZ Circus School’s own unique symbols that we set up and printed onto our stickers.   

The result

Our favourite bespoke task to date! Such lovely customers to work with, doing an amazing job for the benefit of their community and we’re so proud to be working in partnership with them. 

Here’s the feedback we received via the DZ Circus blog on (in their word) “TomTag Awesome Visuals”!  

 

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Photo tags

bespoke tag image from Biddle

The request

Amanda said “I love your tomtags, so easy to use but I was wondering as a lot of the visuals for the child I support need to be more specific and personalised, is it possible to send you photos and for you to print them onto the stickers for me.”

The discussion

We asked Amanda to send in a couple of photos so that we could have a trial run and make some samples. We wanted to see what the photos would look like and make sure that we were happy with the quality and detail we would get by reducing the size to fit our stickers. With a bit of trial and error, we realised that the images needed to focus in on one or two relevant objects rather than be taken of the whole subject from a wide angle. For example, in the classroom it might be one of the work tables and in the dining hall the serving counter.

The result

Amanda took to Facebook to share her delight at the end result.

“I work in a reception class with a little boy with autism who has limited communication. I needed some photos more specific to him and his environment and the wonderful people at Orkid Ideas took my photos and made up my buttons for me. I love my Tom tags and so does he. So easy to use and so effective. A truly amazing product! 😁😁”

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Brambles Preschool

green tomtags with bespoke symbols for Brambles pres-school

The request

Hi, I’m the business manager and SENCo for a small forest school in Salisbury. We came across your TomTags at the Autism Show and wondered if you’d be able to supply a small number of bespoke tags for us to help our children with their daily routine in our preschool. Oh, and we’d like all the tags to be green!
 

The discussion

We were able to source all the symbols that Brambles needed to guide the children’s routine from the Widgit library. These included toilet/nappy, wash hands, put coat on, snack and lunch.
They were also interested in a new minikit that we’d just launched at the time, our Share how I feel tag, which they felt would really support the children’s emotional communication.  
 

The result 

15 green TomTags with bespoke routine symbols and 15 green TomTags with emotions faces. 
“We are so pleased with them, being an outdoor nursery these are so practical for us. Would really recommend :)”
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Mullum Primary

a colletion of bespoke tags produced for Mullum Primary School

The request

“I love the Tom Tag idea. As Principal in a new school I am preparing a Starting School Pack for newly enrolled students for the 2019 Australian school year.  I would love to provide each child with one of the Tom Tags with a standard set of stickers for packing their school bag.  The sticker set would be something like … school hat, lunch box, drink bottle, jumper, book satchel, piece of fruit.” 

The discussion

Over the course of the next few weeks we discussed various options with the school, including using photographs, Widgit or our own School Kit symbols.  The Principal was very keen for the symbols to be easily recognised by her students so we eventually hit upon the idea of using pictures provided by their uniform supplier for the hat, jumper and backpack symbols they needed. 

We then used some of the hand-drawn symbols from our My School Kit sticker pack to provide the other items Mullum were looking for, which worked really well alongside the uniform pictures.

The result

 100 bespoke red tags (to match the red theme of Mullum Primary’s school uniform) each ready prepared with a set of 6 symbols headed off to Australia for the start of their new school year in 2019. There’ll be no excuse for any child at Mullum to arrive unprepared for their school day!